Gas mask kazoos

For the Berliner, the vodka-reeking hawkers of Soviet kitsch are a ubiquitous site around the Disneyland spectacle of Checkpoint Charlie. Wearing faux-beaver caps and decked out in a horrifying array of replica Soviet medal celebrating the wearer's capacity for murder and oppression, they grab any tourist by the arm who seems interested and drunkenly attempt to foist upon them a replica rubber gas mask, accompanying it with a slurred story of underground bunkers and recovered military surplus hordes.

It's all a sham, of course, and these gas masks are only usually good for one thing: sadomasochistic sex games. They don't work, and they are too terrifying for casual display. But Joel Veitch over at Rathergood did figure out one use for them outside of the realm of Marilyn Manson's bedroom: they make fine housings for the installation of kazoos! Yes!

Gas Mask Kazoo [Rathergood via MAKE]

[#1 posted by Anonymous , February 13, 2009 6:46 AM]

Finally, a proof of concept! For years I've been trying to get someone in a stormtrooper outfit with a kazoo in the mask to follow me around playing the Imperial March. My dream is now one step closer to reality.

[#2 posted by strider_mt2k , February 13, 2009 9:07 AM]

Don't forget re-creating those nightmare images from Pink Floyd's "The Wall!"!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0v07InoFiU

[#3 posted by Dillenger69 , February 13, 2009 1:09 PM]

Are you my mummy?

[#4 posted by Anonymous , February 13, 2009 5:02 PM]

Sight.

Hoard.

Illiterat.

[#5 posted by strider_mt2k , February 14, 2009 5:32 AM]

Look mummy,

there's an airplane up in the sky...