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<center>[[image:waxlips.gif|wax lips]]<br />'''wax lips'''</center>
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itemid=1260|
descid=876876676|
desc=Wow, these are way better than those wax poetics and eloquents you've encountered. This is a pair of wax lips designed to add a garish, wide, unsettling smile to the dourest familiar. Just don't be surprised if your familiar starts asking you about pale, moonlit dances with the devil.|
type=familiar equipment|
familiar=any|
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enchantment=+3 Stat(s) Per Fight|
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Wow, these are way better than those wax poetics and eloquents you've encountered. This is a pair of wax lips designed to add a garish, wide, unsettling smile to the dourest familiar. Just don't be surprised if your familiar starts asking you about pale, moonlit dances with the devil.
==Obtained From==
;Obsoleted Areas/Methods
;:;Stores
:::[[Mr. Store]] (1 [[Mr. Accessory]])
;:;Prize
:::[[The Raffle House]]


Type: '''familiar equipment'''<br />
==Messages==
Cannot be discarded
*Every familiar this can be equipped to gets a custom end of combat message.  See each individual [[:Category:Familiars|familiar's page]] for details.
 
<center>Enchantment: <br /><font color=blue>'''+10 lbs. of Volleyball'''</font></center>


==Notes==
==Notes==
*Equips on any [[:Category:Familiars|familiar]].
{{IotM Description|date=July 2005}}
*July 2005's special of the month from [[Mr. Store]].
*Cannot be equipped on a [[Comma Chameleon]].
*This item's enchantment used to be +10 lbs. of [[Blood-Faced Volleyball|Volleyball]], at that time equivalent to +2.5 Stat(s) Per Fight. The stat gain was boosted when the effect was genericized because "we didn’t want to write out the 2.5 stats thing." [http://forums.kingdomofloathing.com/vb/showthread.php?t=156696]
*First prize in [[The Raffle House]] on February 7, 2008.


==References==
==References==
* In the hilarious 1983 [[Wikipedia:Steve Martin|Steve Martin]] comedy [[Wikipedia:The Man with Two Brains|''The Man with Two Brains'']], his character Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr places a glass jar containing the living brain of Ms. Anne Uumellmahaye (with whom he has fallen in love) on the stern seat of a rowing dinghy on a boating lake, then sticks a pair of life-size red wax lips on the glass jar, the better to kiss her.
* The description of this item alludes to a quote by [[Wikipedia:Jack Nicholson|Jack Nicholson]], as the Joker, "Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight?", from the 1989 movie [http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0096895/ ''Batman''].  [[Wikipedia:Joker (comics)|The Joker]] has always had a large waxy smile. In the film the caricature smile was from permanent scarring, in fact similar to large stuck on wax lips in appearance.
* The description of this item alludes to a quote by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Nicholson Jack Nicholson], as the Joker, "Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight?", from the 1989 movie [http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0096895/ ''Batman''].  [[Wikipedia:Joker (comics)|The Joker]] has always had a large waxy smile.
* In the 1983 [[Wikipedia:Steve Martin|Steve Martin]] comedy ''[[Wikipedia:The Man with Two Brains|The Man with Two Brains]]'', his character Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr places a glass jar containing the living brain of Ms. Anne Uumellmahaye (with whom he has fallen in love) on the stern seat of a rowing dinghy on a boating lake, then sticks a pair of life-size red wax lips on the glass jar, the better to kiss her.
* A pair of lips is also the signature image used on [http://www.rockyhorror.com/ ''Rocky Horror Picture Show''] dvds, cds, and posters, as the movie opens with a giant, disembodied pair of lips singing the song 'Science Fiction: Double Feature.'
* A pair of lips is also the signature image used on ''[http://www.rockyhorror.com/ Rocky Horror Picture Show]'' DVDs, CDs, and posters, as the movie opens with a giant, disembodied pair of lips singing the song 'Science Fiction: Double Feature'. This is a direct steal from the 1972 play by [[Wikipedia:Samuel Beckett|Samuel Beckett]], [[Wikipedia:Not I|''Not I'']].
 
==Messages on Different Familiars==
 
*'''Angry Goat:''' Your familiar  harrumphs and growls, but still smiles with his wax lips.
 
*'''Baby Gravy Fairy:''' Your familiar  grins a blissed-out grin, the way only mushrooms and fairies can.
 
*'''Baby Yeti:''' Your familiar grins carnivorously with his wax lips.
 
*'''Barrrnacle:''' Your familiar smiles almost as if he were a creature incapable of facial expressions who had some wax lips stuck on his shell.
 
*'''Blood-Faced Volleyball:''' Your familiar smiles extra hard with the help of his wax lips.
 
*'''Cheshire Bat:''' Your familiar disappears and reappears, leaving only the wax lips floating in the air in a curious (and curiouser) smile.
 
*'''Clockwork Grapefruit:''' O, my droogies, Your familiar grins a real horrorshow grin with his wax goobers.
 
*'''Cocoabo:''' Your familiar smiles uncomfortably with his wax lips. If anyone asks, "do cocoabos have lips?", now the answer is "yes."
 
*'''Coffee Pixie:''' Your familiar is vibrating so fast her wax lips are a blur, but she appears to be smiling.
 
*'''Crimbo Elf:''' Your familiar smiles reluctantly with his wax lips.
 
*'''Cymbal-Playing Monkey:''' Your familiar manages to look even creepier with his blood-red wax lips. ''shudder.''
 
*'''Emo Squid:''' Your familiar smiles brightly with his wax lips, but the pain inside still seethes and burns. Your familiar begins to sob.
 
*'''Feather Boa Constrictor:''' Your familiar ssssmiles a ssserpentine sssmile with her wax lipsss.
 
*'''Flaming Gravy Fairy:''' Your familiar grins with wax lips that are rapidly melting into a bright red liquid.
 
*'''Frozen Gravy Fairy:''' Your familiar grins an icy grin with her frozen wax lips.
 
*'''Fuzzy Dice:''' Your familiar grins with his wax lips. How he manages to roll with the wax lips stuck on one side, we don't know.
 
*'''Ghost Pickle on a Stick:''' Your familiar grins sourly and spookily with his wax lips.
 
*'''Ghuol Whelp:''' Oddly enough, Your familiar grins ghuolishly with his wax lips. At least they hide what he's got stuck in his teeth.
 
*'''Grue:''' A gleam of white (and bright red) in the dark indicate that Your familiar is smiling with his wax lips.
 
*'''Hand Turkey:''' Your familiar smiles with his wax lips -- it's a smile you know like the back of your hand.
 
*'''Hanukkimbo dreidl:''' Your familiar spins again and lands with the wax lips facing up in a very kosher smile.
 
*'''Hovering Sombrero:''' Your familiar hace una sonrisa brillante con sus labios de cera. (Translation: It does a brilliant smile with its lips of wax.)
 
*'''Howling Balloon Monkey:''' Your familiar squeaks and shifts uncomfortably beneath his wax lips.
 
*'''Inflatable Dodecapede:''' Your familiar grins happily, not at all weighed down by his wax lips.
 
*'''Jill-O-Lantern:''' Your familiar smiles brightly with her wax lips, pleased to finally have a full set of teeth.
 
*'''Killer Bee:''' Your familiar smiles predatorially with his wax lips.
 
*'''Leprechaun:''' Begorrah, Your familiar grins an Irish grin with his wax lips.
 
*'''Levitating Potato:''' Your familiar smiles a tuberiffic, tubular smile with his wax lips.
 
*'''MagiMechTech MicroMechaMech:''' Your familiar smiles goofily with his wax lips. OMG Kawaiiiii!
 
*'''Mosquito:''' Your familiar buzzes ominously while smiling with his wax lips.
 
*'''Personal Raincloud:''' Your familiar smiles quickly with the wax lips, before you can wonder how you can stick wax lips on a cloud.
 
*'''Sabre-Toothed Lime:''' Your familiar grins and almost loses his wax lips (they don't fit well over the sabre teeth, you see).
 
*'''Spooky Pirate Skeleton:''' Your familiar grins happily, since he now has lips. He still doesn't have any guts, though.
 
*'''Stab Bat:''' Your familiar grins a bloodthirsty, untrustworthy grin with his wax lips.
 
*'''Star Starfish:''' Your familiar smiles vertically with his wax lips. You must have stuck them on wrong.
 
*'''Stinky Gravy Fairy:''' Your familiar smiles invitingly with her wax lips, but you still can't stand to get too close.
 
*'''Sweet Nutcracker:''' ?


*'''Whirling Maple Leaf:''' Your familiar smiles all aboot with his wax lips, eh? Ya hoser.
==See Also==
*[[Stat Gains from Fights]]


[[Category:Familiar equipment]]
==Collection==
<collection>1260</collection>
{{Mr Store 2005}}

Latest revision as of 15:11, 26 January 2025

wax lips
wax lips

Wow, these are way better than those wax poetics and eloquents you've encountered. This is a pair of wax lips designed to add a garish, wide, unsettling smile to the dourest familiar. Just don't be surprised if your familiar starts asking you about pale, moonlit dances with the devil.

Type: familiar equipment
Familiar: any
Cannot be discarded

+3 Stat(s) Per Fight


NOTE: This item cannot be equipped while in Hardcore.


(In-game plural: pairs of wax lips)
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Item number: 1260
Description ID: 876876676
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Obtained From

Obsoleted Areas/Methods
Stores
Mr. Store (1 Mr. Accessory)
Prize
The Raffle House

Messages

  • Every familiar this can be equipped to gets a custom end of combat message. See each individual familiar's page for details.

Notes

  • July 2005's item of the month from Mr. Store.
Its in-store description, unfortunately, has been lost to the sands of time.
  • Cannot be equipped on a Comma Chameleon.
  • This item's enchantment used to be +10 lbs. of Volleyball, at that time equivalent to +2.5 Stat(s) Per Fight. The stat gain was boosted when the effect was genericized because "we didn’t want to write out the 2.5 stats thing." [1]
  • First prize in The Raffle House on February 7, 2008.

References

  • The description of this item alludes to a quote by Jack Nicholson, as the Joker, "Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight?", from the 1989 movie Batman. The Joker has always had a large waxy smile. In the film the caricature smile was from permanent scarring, in fact similar to large stuck on wax lips in appearance.
  • In the 1983 Steve Martin comedy The Man with Two Brains, his character Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr places a glass jar containing the living brain of Ms. Anne Uumellmahaye (with whom he has fallen in love) on the stern seat of a rowing dinghy on a boating lake, then sticks a pair of life-size red wax lips on the glass jar, the better to kiss her.
  • A pair of lips is also the signature image used on Rocky Horror Picture Show DVDs, CDs, and posters, as the movie opens with a giant, disembodied pair of lips singing the song 'Science Fiction: Double Feature'. This is a direct steal from the 1972 play by Samuel Beckett, Not I.

See Also

Collection

  • 🥇: BoozerBear (#4576) - 19
  • 🥈: Raph Fury (#333920) - 6
  • 🥉: Grimdel (#902119) - 5
  • #4: Mystic_Potato (#154601), PacHINKOid (#43130) - 3
  • #6: Archham (#262104), Birdy (#37689), Clubbrz L337 (#188269), Dman1 (#137122), Mistress of the Obvious (#845708) - 2

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