Tar-Baby

Tar-Baby 9000 is the best known and most computationally demonic Tar Baby of modern time. In this 1895 photograph, Tar-Baby 9000 gathers data from Brer Rabbit.

A Tar-Baby is a demon which has possessed a tar-baby.

Tar-Baby 9000

Tar-Baby 9000 is the best-known and most computationally demonic Tar-Babies of modern time.

Turpentine delight

Turpentine still, used to make both turpentine delight and tar. Tar from the still shown here has produced a notoriously sticky breed of tar-babies.

Tar-Babies enjoying feeding on Turpentine delight.

They also enjoy feeding Turpentine delight to others. Tar-Baby 9000 is notorious for this.

Invariably, having fed Turpentine delight to others, a Tar-Baby will then feed on said others, chasing down this morsel with a generous shot of Extract of Radium. Hirality ensues! (Not!).

Fiction cross-reference

• Extract of Radium
• Turpentine
• Turpentine delight

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Demon (nonfiction)
• Tar-Baby (nonfiction)