Andrew’s always bragging on the wisdom, reach, and resourcefulness of his readers, or “you people,” as he likes to calls you. I would like to tap your collective wisdom, if I might.
I took the picture above in Copenhagen last month. My boyf-er, wait. Let’s just call him my “longtime personal secretary.” I was walking down a path in Frederiksberg Park with my longtime personal secretary when we came upon a large tree. Hanging from its branches were hundreds, if not thousands, of pacifiers. There were also notes and pictures attached to some of the baby binkies. We were dumfounded. My longtime personal secretary theorized that it was some sort of memorial tree, each pacifier representing a Danish child who had been murdered.
After a moment’s consideration I rejected my longtime personal secretary’s theory. Thousands and thousands of murdered children? In tiny little Denmark? Unlikely.
I thought it might be some sort of tooth-fairy-esque affair, a way for parents to manipulate their children into giving up their pacifiers. You take a child to a public park, he hangs his binkie in the tree, and then the Binkie Fairy sneaks into his house in the middle of the night and leaves a gift under his pillow.
We asked the Danes working at our hotel, and they had no idea what we were talking about. So I’m turning to you people. Any Danes out there? Any ideas? Anyone know for sure? Murdered children? Ingenious way to manipulate children into giving up their binkies? WTF?
-posted by Dan.
The Dish 