What is a Turtleboy?

What is a Turtleboy?

The Turtleboy Sports website is a hybrid of blog, news website and tabloid, published by Aidan Kearney. Posts tell stories of “Hoodrat heroes” and “Fupasloths,” derogatory terms for the subjects of the site’s articles. Many Turtleboy Sports stories are topped with long-winded headlines.

Who is Turtle Boy Massachusetts?

Worcester, Massachusetts: The Notorious Turtle Boy The sculpture, a favorite with shutterbugs, depicts a nude boy with a satisfied grin holding a sea turtle with an alarmed expression. The positioning of the figures is unintentionally suggestive. Turtle Boy!

Who is Uncle Turtleboy?

Eric Labarge is a business associate, friend of Eric Spofford, recovering addict, and lifetime criminal thug for hire.

How old is Turtleboy?

12 year-old Will’s dad died when he was four, he’s got hardly any friends and school bullies call him Turtle Boy not because he loves turtles (which he does) but because of a facial difference that is causing him to feel more and more self conscious as he grows older.

What is the Turtle Boy statue?

The bronze is officially named Boy with a Turtle but is known to locals as Turtle Boy….

Burnside Fountain
Type Fountain in two parts; basin and sculpture
Medium Bronze
Dimensions 1.5 m × 3.7 m (5 ft × 12 ft)
Location Worcester Common, Worcester, Massachusetts

Who is Turtle Boy Worcester?

In 1970 the statue was stolen, and was re-installed two years later. An attempted theft occurred in 2004. The bronze is officially named Boy with a Turtle but is known to locals as Turtle Boy. Turtle Boy has become an unofficial mascot for Worcester, much in the same way the Manneken Pis is for Brussels.

Is Turtle Boy based on a true story?

Turtle Boy isn’t an autobiography, but it is loosely based on my own life, growing up in a small town in Wisconsin. Like the main character, around the time of my bar mitzvah, I developed a facial difference that invited a lot of teasing.

Who made Turtle Boy?

The statue had two sculptors. Charles Y. Harvey was the original sculptor and the statue was completed by Sherry E.

What disease does RJ have in Turtle Boy?

He’s a super nice kid who loves turtles, but all anyone tends to see is his micrognathia, a condition that causes a deformity on his chin. Because of this, he spends most of his time alone in his room with his turtle friends he found at the nearby marsh.

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