The Curious Case of the Cryptic Cookie Cutters*

[rheasilvia]

The other day, I bought a selection of cookie cutters – and found myself confronted by a perplexing mystery. I can not tell what shape several of these enigmatic cutters want to lend my cookies.

All seems to be in order with these unpuzzling shapes:



The top one in this second pic is slightly more challenging, but after some thought, I take it to be a Nikolaus bearing a sack filled with presents, as Nikoläuse are wont to do. The lower one is more troubling, but it might be a sleigh. Possibly. I am open to other suggestions.



But as for these last two dubious specimens…



For the top one, my best bet would be an aardvark, or alternately - and perhaps more probably - an ankylosaurus who's lost his or her tail to a tyrannosaurus attack. (On reflection, this really does seem like the most likely option.)

The lower one, however… uhm. It's a shrew? Whose tail was tragically stepped on by a brontosaurus portly Nikolaus...? Uhm?

Help, Obi-Wan Friendslist! You're my only hope! What do you think?


* Alliteration for the win! ;-)

Comments

[carose59]

The top one on the third two reminded me of the dogs in this guy's cartoons:



(I hope this works.)

His cartoons have been in The New Yorker for years.

[rheasilvia]

Hee, yes, there definitely is a resemblance! :-)

[lilacsigil]

Oh! Turn the top one in the last picture 90 degrees left, so the round bit is at the top. It's a pair of bells! Still stuck on shrew for the second one, though.

[rheasilvia]

I can't see the bells... the round bit does look like the top of one, but the rest of the shape won't coalesce into bells for me. Argh!

The shrew is looking more and more likely, though. :-)

[rivkat]

Maybe the bottom is Jesus Christ in utero?

[rheasilvia]

Heeee! It might be - although if so, I have to say that Jesus was an egg-head. ;-)

[torch]

My guess would have been that the top one in the last pic is the sleigh all loaded up, with the sack sticking out at the back. The bottom one, a Santa head in profile (turn it 90 degrees), with hat and beard.

Or it could be partly-eaten ice cream cone if you turn it the other way.

[rheasilvia]

Wow, you're the queen of cookie cutter interpretation! O_O I think the lower one definitely is a Santa head - and I would never have gotten that in a million years.

The loaded sleigh won't quite come together for me, but I can imagine that that might also be the intended meaning. Or - wait, just now I had a weird flash of a hunkered-down skier going very fast...