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This is one of the products of a fifteen-day non-stop marathon I had in January, working on a business presentation. One of the side effects of that mind-numbing job was that my brain began generating the oddest ideas. Some even made marginal sense; most did not.
In case you don’t know what this lampoons, the maneki neko is a particular piece of Japanese kitsch.This focco has all the trappings: the raised arm, the happy smile, the bib, the giant “thousand million ryo” ingot. Procyonians do not come in calico, but some yellow and black paint brushed on an albino make a passable alternative. Likewise, wearable neko ears come to the rescue where the focco’s ones are not catlike enough.
The grin is not how they smile, and is really close to the “I’ll kill ya” expression; but one can’t have everything…Colored pencils
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Fri, Apr 30 2010 12:40
The teeth are sharp, yes. There are small fangs, even - not as large as a cat's canines, but quite bigger than humans'.
The origins of human grin are murky... why show blunt teeth to another creature with the same teeth? If you look at chimp expressions, both grin and menace show teeth, they just differ in how wide the maw gets opened. There must be something else going on. Perhaps it's demonstrating the difference between "look, my jaws are closed" between "look, my jaws are agape, I shall eat you".
It is certain that focco menace grimace is this universal mammalian "I shall eat you" one.
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