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== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==


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File:Brer_Rabbit_and_Tar_Baby_9000_small.png|[[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.
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* [[Tar-Baby]]
* [[Tar-Baby]]
* [[Tar-Baby 9000]]
* [[Tar-Baby 9000]]
== External links ==
== External links ==



Revision as of 18:43, 4 June 2016

Brer Rabbit gets stuck in the Tar-Baby. This illustration comes from the 1895 version of Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, illustrated by A.B. Frost.

The Tar-Baby is a fictional character in the second of the Uncle Remus stories published in 1881.

Description

The Tar-Baby is a doll made of tar and turpentine used to entrap Br'er Rabbit.

The more that Br'er Rabbit fights the Tar-Baby, the more entangled he becomes.

In modern usage, "tar baby" refers to any "sticky situation" that is only aggravated by additional involvement in it.

Nonfiction cross-reference

Fiction cross-reference

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