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Blowup doll stands in for deployed boyfriend
NWF Daily News ^ | 11/14/2009 | Katie Tammen

Posted on 11/15/2009 7:50:25 AM PST by Saije

She wanted to give him a glimpse of home.

Lesan Gouge’s plan was to snap pictures of herself at various locations in Destin, and send them to her boyfriend Jeff who is deployed.

Then, her innate sense of humor took hold and “Replacement Jeff” joined her in the photographs.

Replacement Jeff is a “high class” blowup doll, dressed in shorts, a striped shirt and a baseball cap. At about five-feet-tall with a painted on mustache, Replacement Jeff doesn’t resemble the real Jeff, but he’s great for the photographs.

“This one is so quiet,” Gouge said of the doll with a laugh. “He’s a good listener, and he doesn’t say anything back… he’s awesome - he’ll go anywhere you want him to go.”

The duo have posed together once a day since the real Jeff left. The pictures show them in a variety of locations including outside the grocery store with Replacement Jeff sitting in the cart, kayaking (Replacement Jeff was strapped in) and out to dinner.

“I started thinking about what it must be like when you’re half a world away from home, over the holidays especially,” Gouge said. “I thought how nice it would be to have a certain place at home to think about every day. So, I decided to make ‘Replacement Jeff’ so that I could take him places, take pictures, and then let ‘Real Jeff’ have that hometown experience.”

Gouge said she has earned her fair share of strange looks when she brings out Replacement Jeff, but said once people hear why she’s doing it they appreciate what she’s doing and sometimes jump into the pictures with them.

As for Jeff, Gouge said, he had no idea she was doing it until he received a month’s worth of photographs in the mail.

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: blowupdoll; cute; military
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Cute story. Here's hoping she gets the real Jeff back soon and can deflate the replacement one for good.


1 posted on 11/15/2009 7:50:25 AM PST by Saije
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I always wondered what happened to ...

2 posted on 11/15/2009 7:52:06 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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3 posted on 11/15/2009 7:52:43 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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4 posted on 11/15/2009 7:54:22 AM PST by dfwgator
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Speaking of dolls....


5 posted on 11/15/2009 7:55:28 AM PST by ElkGroveDan (Get rid of the dirty moderates. Get rid of them,)
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definitely not guilty. I wonder if replacement Jeff is anatomically correct?


6 posted on 11/15/2009 7:59:14 AM PST by henry_reardon
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Agreed...

7 posted on 11/15/2009 7:59:32 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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innate sense of humor - refreshing. Lucky Jeff, even if he is over in Sandland for a while.


8 posted on 11/15/2009 8:25:37 AM PST by flowerplough ( Pennsylvania today - New New Jersey meets North West Virginia.)
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Man, that’s one lucky hunk of vinyl....


9 posted on 11/15/2009 8:28:52 AM PST by ErnBatavia (Obama is a DIC....... Ditherer-in-Chief)
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a “high class” blowup doll

Hang on just one second.

Inquiring minds want to know:

I mean, if he is a "high class blowup doll" (which I doubt with such a tacky mustache), it should be able to be proven. I personally question his "high class" qualifications...he just looks like one of those ordinary social climber blowup dolls to me.

10 posted on 11/15/2009 8:34:38 AM PST by markomalley (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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Now now thats just his inflation valve !

Kinky.....


11 posted on 11/15/2009 8:35:19 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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She’ll ditch Jeff and stick with the rubber man.


12 posted on 11/15/2009 8:43:12 AM PST by IbJensen (America being militarily and economically strong isn't enough: We must be morally strong!)
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If my morals were lower I would gladly stand in for the doll. But I’d hate to have someone stand in for me.


13 posted on 11/15/2009 8:47:55 AM PST by rfreedom4u (Oh the intense pleasures of being straight!)
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To: Saije
Iraq 2004.

Iraq 2004

14 posted on 11/15/2009 9:08:15 AM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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Oh My!


15 posted on 11/15/2009 9:22:49 AM PST by Cat Dancing
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16 posted on 11/15/2009 9:23:22 AM PST by Slinky911
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I noticed she has the same dress on in all eight pictures, shown at the link. She must have taken them all in one day?


17 posted on 11/15/2009 10:25:40 AM PST by rawhide
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It must be tough on her boyfriend, leaving someone who looks like her, behind? She is gorgeous!


18 posted on 11/15/2009 10:26:44 AM PST by rawhide
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LOL!

A Marine I worked with had had a life-sized cardboard cut-out made of him for some awards ceremony a couple of years before he went overseas.

While he was deployed, his wife would take the cardboard cut-out to various occasions and have herself photographed with it and send the pictures to Andy (the Marine.)

We all got a big kick out of those.

19 posted on 11/15/2009 10:31:47 AM PST by Allegra (It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
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Would like to see the photos that did not make the news..


20 posted on 11/15/2009 11:58:57 AM PST by Pavegunner72
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