CollegeHumor: Innovation Articles This Month http://www.collegehumor.com http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1725994 Pioneers in Immaturity: The Hand Vagina Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:26:41 -0400 http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1725994 <table border=0 width="360px"> <tr> <td colspan=2> Christian Jones is not a name you might recognize, but he has had a profound impact on history.  A world-renowned shadow puppeteer in his time, Jones’s contribution to this world was stumbled across by chance. 

“I was just sitting in my house, trying to come up with exciting new two person shadow puppets with my wife, Judith,” Jones, 86, said.  “We were improvising and she was doing a crocodile.  I thought that looked like fun so I also pretended to be a crocodile that was eating her crocodile. We did some playful crocodile wrestling, as us hand puppeteers are prone to do. The rest is history..."


Jones’s discovery was published in the magazine Modern Shadower.  It sent shock waves through the shadow puppet community, prompting other adventurous puppeteers to try their "hand" in making their own anatomical parts. Despite these innovator's best efforts, the “hand wang” and “hand scrotum”  both failed miserably- possibly lending gravitas to the staying power of Jones’s discovery.

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]]> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=2> <hr> </td> </tr> <tr><td valign="top" width="35px"> <a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/user:355"><img src="http://1.media.collegehumor.com/collegehumor/ch6/e/9/collegehumor.632ae6ce2194da1d069b53d991c38c72.jpg"></a> </td> <td valign="top"> Written 2007-04-05 13:26:41 by <a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/user:355">Steve Horvath</a> <a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/school:602"></a> <p> <img src="http://www.collegehumor.com/artwork/icon_likeIt_noLink.gif" align="texttop" /> 27 likes </p> </td> </tr> </table> <hr />