So I found this while photographing the environs surrounding Toronto’s Yonge & Bloor intersection earlier today. I’m assuming it was unearthed in the excavation because, for real, no one would actually, you know, wear one of these, would they? I mean, in this century?
Special Bonus Content! So I was talking to my mom this afternoon and happened to mention finding this trinket. My mom, always hip to what the kids are into these days, asked “people don’t still sniff that stuff, do they?” Rock on, Mom!
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are you referring to the trinket from the charm bracelet? or the paisley embroidered caftan?
The paisley embroidered caftan would require a lot of substance-sniffing to endure.
luv ya tim…and where did the hulk go????
As for kids these days… I can’t work out that would relate to cocaine.
I feel so innocent. It’s strange and unfamiliar and I’m not sure I like it.
Not that I ever tried it, or ever had any interest in it, but I fear that some kid somewhere is going to say that cocaine is an “old people’s drug.”
I bet it fell off some boy at some circuit party. It looks like a retro necklace thingy.
Umm….. so what is it?
derek, that is a charm from a necklace or bracelet fashioned to look like an old-timey razor blade, often used in the 80s to form lines of cocaine. Something I’ve never done or been interested in doing, but boy, do I remember all the movies that incorporated it back in the day.
Points subtracted from derek for making me feel freaking old. *sigh*
omg, i still shave with those things.
Like every other 80s thing, it’s been redone for the new millennium and made even BIGGER and more ostentatious. An “artist” took a McDonald’s “coffee” spoon and dipped in 18k gold before getting hit with a cease and desist by McD’s.
His other stuff is sill available, though:
http://www.notempire.com/images/uploads/Cokespoon_3.jpg
For when any of us have our Scarface moment.