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<blockquote data-quote="MiguelATF" data-source="post: 399182" data-attributes="member: 4648">Some years ago the term 'Twinkie Defense' was coined by newspaper reporters, to ironically describe the defense attorneys attempt to explain the motivation of the perpetrator of a horrible multiple murder, with the theory that the killer suffered from diminished mental capacity, leading to psychotic depression, all of which had been triggered by a change in his diet when he began eating highly-sugared junk food, aka 'Twinkies'.A much less dark - and Holiday-themed saying - whose origins I'm uncertain of - is 'the Elf made me do it'.&nbsp; I think whoever was decorating this particular shopwindow, in a small Oregon town, was trying to convey just that: a sense of Christmas humor. But the I-might-really-be-an-Alien-masquerading-as-a-human-being expression on the face of the child mannequin in the same shopwindow - adds wonderfully dark and twisted subtexts to the window--[ATTACH=full]241363[/ATTACH]Or, at least, that's how I saw it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MiguelATF, post: 399182, member: 4648"] Some years ago the term 'Twinkie Defense' was coined by newspaper reporters, to ironically describe the defense attorneys attempt to explain the motivation of the perpetrator of a horrible multiple murder, with the theory that the killer suffered from diminished mental capacity, leading to psychotic depression, all of which had been triggered by a change in his diet when he began eating highly-sugared junk food, aka 'Twinkies'. A much less dark - and Holiday-themed saying - whose origins I'm uncertain of - is '[I]the Elf made me do it[/I]'. I think whoever was decorating this particular shopwindow, in a small Oregon town, was trying to convey just that: a sense of Christmas humor. But the I-might-really-be-an-Alien-masquerading-as-a-human-being expression on the face of the child mannequin in the same shopwindow - adds wonderfully dark and twisted subtexts to the window-- [ATTACH type="full"]241363[/ATTACH] Or, at least, that's how I saw it. [/QUOTE]

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