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On 2013-04-15 11:17, Hale Tiki wrote:
On 2013-04-15 06:34, krikkitbot wrote:
I wondered who thought, "let's make a ceramic human head. The hair will go up and people will stick a straw in it to drink fruity rum drinks!"
That being said, great find hang10tiki. I want one too!
Ren Clark? As far as I know, he was the first. Anyone else wanna chime in?
Drinking vessels in the shape of human and animal heads have been around for thousands of years. Greeks, Romans, Incans, Persians, etc all did it. Some cultures even drank out of real human skulls.
Lord Byron drank out of human skull goblet inscribed with his poem "Lines Inscribed Upon A Cup Formed From A Skull". You can buy a replica online.
People wanting to drink out of freaky things has been going on for a long time.
Tibetan carved skull.
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