# Bad, bad, bad Prosthetic eyeball optical illusion! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** fashion-clothing\ **Created:** [June 7, 2024, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prosthetic-eyeball-optical-illusion/1002606 "2024-06-07T20:12:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prosthetic-eyeball-optical-illusion/1002606/21 "2024-06-07T22:07:19Z")
Nice!! ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2024, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prosthetic-eyeball-optical-illusion/1002606/22 "2024-06-08T03:43:05Z")
I would LOVE to see a Magic 8-Ball prosthetic eyeball! Maybe with some built-in device so you can close your eye and when you open it, the answer slowly appears. I would totally contribute to a GoFundMe for that. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2024, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prosthetic-eyeball-optical-illusion/1002606/23 "2024-06-08T04:15:28Z")
They have them. I may have to reconsider my GoFundMe. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![TXRebel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6de8d8/32.png) [@TXRebel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TXRebel)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2024, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prosthetic-eyeball-optical-illusion/1002606/24 "2024-06-08T15:48:57Z")
A. I would totally donate to your GoFund Me (although me,personally would rethink the 8 Ball, but you do you) B. My uncle had an artificial eye from WWII and always had a spare. Keep me posted if you do a GoFundMe. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2024, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prosthetic-eyeball-optical-illusion/1002606/25 "2024-06-08T18:57:34Z")
Iā€™m not really gonna do s GoFundMe. I was joking. I have plenty spares. If I run out I got a patch, šŸ¦œno parrot thoā€™, dang it! ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2024, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prosthetic-eyeball-optical-illusion/1002606/26 "2024-06-08T22:55:52Z")
Okay, I had to click on this one. Someone help me out. Thereā€™s a horror story about a lady with a glass eyeball who leaves it in a jar so she can spy on her husband in the bedroom. I think itā€™s from a book of short stories recommended by someone here but I cannot recall the author. Any takers? Beck, you ainā€™t spyinā€™ on anyone are you? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2024, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prosthetic-eyeball-optical-illusion/1002606/27 "2024-06-09T00:06:20Z")
Why yes, yes I am. All eyes on thee. You know who you are. I think @aceplace57 told tale about that. Or maybe it was someone else from Arkansas. @carnivorousplant ? Iā€™m sure itā€™s a tale often told. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2024, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prosthetic-eyeball-optical-illusion/1002606/28 "2024-06-09T00:41:21Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > My sister likes to go grocery shopping late at night, and she puts sticky googly eyes on produce, and on any end-of-aisle displays that feature pictures of a person. Several years ago, I grew a couple cotton plants from seed in a big pot on my porch. I picked the cotton and did some crafty stuff with it, including making some little sheep with cotton bodies and googly eyes. [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53778337721_ba6cfaf1eb_b.jpg "PXL\_20240609\_002656687") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/197666118@N08/53778337721/in/dateposted-public/) You canā€™t buy a small amount of googly eyes, though, so I have a bunch left over and ever since then Iā€™ve wondered WTF to do with the rest of 'em. Now I know! As far as prosthetic eyes, I might just go with one thatā€™s a different color than my other eye. Iā€™ve got olive drab eyes, so a brilliant blue one would certainly make people look twice. If they asked about it, Iā€™d just tell 'em Iā€™m part husky. [![](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/lGoMgwNVD2daVhh2YhnQDw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTIwNDg7aD0xMzY0O2NmPXdlYnA-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/dog_time_927/3869b5e9fe71cacd4cf37ccd80902c3f) ](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/lGoMgwNVD2daVhh2YhnQDw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTIwNDg7aD0xMzY0O2NmPXdlYnA-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/dog_time_927/3869b5e9fe71cacd4cf37ccd80902c3f) ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2024, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prosthetic-eyeball-optical-illusion/1002606/29 "2024-06-09T00:42:31Z")
Iā€™d go for a simple skull and crossbones or maybe a mirror. I donā€™t know about the Magic 8 Ball, Beck. What if some creeper hit on you, and your eyeball said, ā€œOutlook goodā€? This reminds me sof when some eyedrops docs were using to fight rejection of my corneal graft gave me a mild chemical burn on my left eye. I had to wear a patch for a few days. My high school students were aghast when they saw me, and one kid asked if my eye would fall out, so I told my dadā€™s old joke: What did the teacher say when her glass eye fell out and rolled across her desk? ā€œOh, there goes one of my pupils!ā€ ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2024, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prosthetic-eyeball-optical-illusion/1002606/30 "2024-06-09T01:49:03Z")
Oh. Iā€™ve done that. Many times. I like to do the look on particular days when I feel like shocking young nurses. I am/was pale blue eyed. My good eye has a permanent scar in the iris from the same accident. So it looks 1/4 dark. I wear a colored contact on that eye. And then another color prosthetic. Scares the crap outta folks. When you get to the place I am you have your fun where you can. Iā€™m thinking of more ways to use my stock of Googlie eyes at this very moment. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2024, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prosthetic-eyeball-optical-illusion/1002606/31 "2024-06-09T02:27:54Z")
May I suggest public toilets? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2024, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prosthetic-eyeball-optical-illusion/1002606/32 "2024-06-09T05:13:34Z")
Ewww. Nope nope nope ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2024, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prosthetic-eyeball-optical-illusion/1002606/33 "2024-06-09T06:08:16Z")
A moment of silence, please. Iā€™m having a very difficult time right now. I just discovered my precious Bekkers isnā€™t [sob!] _perfect._ ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2024, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prosthetic-eyeball-optical-illusion/1002606/34 "2024-06-09T06:11:01Z")
But she could be. If she just got that Magic 8-Ball eye. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2024, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prosthetic-eyeball-optical-illusion/1002606/35 "2024-06-09T06:21:41Z")
Iā€™m perfect in my own _eye_! šŸ‘ ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2024, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prosthetic-eyeball-optical-illusion/1002606/36 "2024-06-09T12:11:37Z")
My Father gave a woman he saw walking a ride home, and she insisted on making coffee. She had her husbandā€™s eye in a jar on the mantle. Dad said itā€™s gaze followed him around the room. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2024, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prosthetic-eyeball-optical-illusion/1002606/37 "2024-06-09T13:46:03Z")
I kinda knew it was you. Such an Arkansas type story. We be weird ā˜ŗ ---
**Author:** ![Shortname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@Shortname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shortname)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2024, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prosthetic-eyeball-optical-illusion/1002606/38 "2024-06-10T03:47:40Z")
Iā€™m new here. Iā€™m really glad this post didnā€™t end up being ā€œdoes this prosthetic eyeball make my butt look big?ā€ ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2024, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prosthetic-eyeball-optical-illusion/1002606/39 "2024-06-10T05:15:52Z")
> [@Shortname](#): > > Iā€™m new here Youā€™re going to do just fine here. Welcome! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prosthetic-eyeball-optical-illusion/1002606/40 "2024-06-11T12:42:06Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > The thing is I gotta get a new one. They ainā€™t cheap folks. Custom made and fitted to the implant inside my eye socket (grossed out yet?) $6800. > The one I want is black with an 8 in a white circle(you know, the 8-ball) amazingly you can actually get a working Magic 8-ball, with custom fortunes. Iā€™m not greedy thoā€™, those cost a cool $12k. I used to work down the hall from what was left of the American Optical Monoplex Artificial Eye division. They made the BEST false eyes in the world. They had the smallest commercial plastic extruding machine I ever saw that they used to make Delrin eyeballs with realistic little red threads running through them and astonishingly real-looking irises. I know they made custom weird eyeballs, because someone I knew had a keychain fob that was a false eye with five irises set in it. I donā€™t know what he charges, but the guy who ran the division bought it out and set up on his own making them: > **[Monoplex Eye Prosthetics ā€“ Studley Ocular Labs - Home Page ā€“ Artificial...](https://monoplexeye.com/)** > > Monoplex Eye Prosthetics,- Studley Ocular Labs With 25+ years of experience we have developed a true passion for providing handcrafted ocular implants You could always buy an old one off eBay. This oneā€™s only $81. But it might not be in your size > **[Vintage American Optical Monoplex Prosthetic Eye Actual Glass RARE W/Orig. Box!...](https://www.ebay.com/itm/155711673939)** > > Up for sale is a rare vintage American Optical Monoplex prosthetic eye. This unique piece comes with its original box and is made of actual glass. The item has not been modified. It has its original suction device but its rubber has hardened and is... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prosthetic-eyeball-optical-illusion/1002606.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prosthetic-eyeball-optical-illusion/1002606.md?page=3)