Did you see the photos of Itchy and Scratchy–whatever the hell their names are–after their bodies had been “cleaned up to look more recognizeable and lifelike?”
Yikes! They look like those really unconvincing 1950s store mannequins, the ones you still see in out-of-the-way stores sometimes that scare the crap out of you because they look kinda like Charlie McCarthy grown up and in high-ass drag? Now, I will admit, I have never seen a “funeralized” body that looked anything like an actual human being. But these looked like someone’s nine-year-old sister was set loose on them with some Silly Putty and a My First makeup kit!
What the hell were they thinking? Why did they do that to the bodies?! And why couldn’t they fly someone in who knew what the hell they were doing?
So the guys look good and dead, maybe? I agree, they did look pretty wilted… must be the heat. Just goes to show that no amount of special effects gore can desensitize you to the real thing.
Yeah, I saw that too. . . But I keep in mind that the morticians were probably hurrying with trying to present a picture as soon as possible to Public Affairs for dissemination.
Besides, how easy is it to shave and make a cadaver’s face as lifelike as it used to be?
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They ain’t a gonna be rosy cheeks, I tell ya. . .
They weren’t preparing the bodies for an open casket funeral, in which the body would be presented in a manner so as not to upset the family any more than they already are. I don’t think this was the case here. They just wanted to get the bodies cleaned up to look more like themselves, and show the Iraqis, so there would be less doubt that the US actually had killed them. They likely weren’t bothering to waste time on the minor details or cosmetics that they would spend on a family’s loved one…who pays for this kind of service.
No matter how good a makeup job one has after exchanging this world for the next, no one looks as they did in life. Or, as Shakespeare said in * Measure for Measure,* “Death’s a great disguiser.”
So, IMHO, the makeup artist and those who distributed the Hussein boys’ pictures have only added fuel to the fire.
They showed them on the NBC Nightly News last night. Problem is, as SnugTheJoiner notes, they did not make the situation any better by completely rebuilding their faces with Silly Putty and putting more makeup on them than the late Barbara Cartland wore in her palmiest days.
I saw them on drudge. I also saw the pictures with the beards, blood and bullet-holes, and I have to say, the After was way, way scarier than the Before.
I’m scribbling in my will right now, not to let an undertaker touch my face under any circumstances. (Well, maybe coins on the eyelids.)