I am appalled. Agog. Talk about bad taste!

As some of you know, my passion is 18th century France, specifically the end of the Bourbon monarchy and how history has slandered the memories of Marie Antoinette and to a lesser extent her husband Louis XVI.

Well, there I was minding my own business going through the Amazon website to see if anything new has been written or recorded about the royal couple that I could add to my collection. I looked at each item my 'marie antoinette' search revealed; I came across something called the 'Marie Antoinette Action Figure' I clicked on the item and had a palpitation. There it was, a cheap looking doll-like thing that had a unique function that is best described by this fool who wrote a review:

"I bought this as a Christmas present for a friend of mine, but I got a couple minutes to play with it a bit myself. It's great - her head actually pops off. Apparently, when you have her wig on, the head just kinda falls off when you press the button, but if you take her wig off, the head launches a couple inches.
Great fun, wonderful toy." A. N. Kirshner

Let's decapitate the queen is "great fun. A wonderful toy". When he's finished with Marie he probably plays with his Adolph Hitler paper dolls.

I should have stopped while I was ahead (no pun intended); I kept reading. In the next column I noticed a large cat for sale. Upon closer examination, the large cat turned out to be a Marie Antoinette wig that is reminiscent of the coiffure worn ny Elsa Lanchester in 'Bride of Frankenstein'. The advertisement ended with a heart-breaking, "can also be used for Mrs. Santa Claus costume". Marie Antoinette interchangable with Mrs. Santa Claus. I'm glad Marie isn't here to endure this ultimate humiliation.

This cracked me up to no end. I'm sorry. But it did. At times, I think I can be like a grown-up Wednesday Addams, especially given the Pinhead figure on the nightstand, but I digress.

After more careful thought, this is the kind of thing that makes me glad beyond words that no one will remember me when I'm gone and I will thus be spared this kind of indignity.

Poor Marie.

I am so glad they made an 'action figure' of Marie just so vendome had something to write about. It cracked me up too.