Dr Abervolt: Hard to believe I am the resident philosopher of Leek because my head is made of clay? Well, think again, mon ami!

The Grobius & Fishe Academy
of Arts and Imbecility

Leek Staffs Branch

Clayheads: All about dummies with minds of their own, who behave like real human beings (generally idiotically or despicably) in spite of lacking an organic brain, which says something about the vaunted superiority of the latter.

There are Realheads and Dunderheads in the real world of humanity. Every human being is a bit of both -- they are not separate species, although a sure sign of a Dunderhead is to claim that a Realhead IS a different species, class, race, or what-have-you. Clayheads are what Realheads create to amuse the Dunderheads without offending them overmuch (because they will not recognize themselves in the invention), but they are also created for the moral purpose of educating, for a reformed Dunderhead is as welcome to a Realhead as a repentant sinner is to the mythical populace of heaven.

Axiom 1: All Clayheads are created in the image of a Dunderhead.
Axiom 2: Not all Dunderheads are Clayheads.
Axiom 3: Some Realheads are Clayheads.
Postulate: Some Realheads are Dunderheads.

Inescapable logic, which doesn't really prove anything except to warn you to watch your back when you make a Clayhead of somebody who offends you. You can be done unto likewise.


Before Bart Simpson, there was Punch and Judy, the original 'clayheads' who were made of wood

Later came the waxen image clayhead. Here are three Regency Bimbos from Cheltenham.
What is the point of this web page? We don't know yet, apart from the fact it belongs on the Academy of Arts & Imbecility. What is a Clayhead? In short it is a parody of a human type, foible, mindset, or ethos, epitomized by a recognizable but 'fake' image or representation.


Abervolt's Bodyguard, Ziggie Floyd, thick as the stairpost on which he sits, but marvelously tough and loyal, guarding the stairs to the Inner Sanctum.

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