But would a nose that looks like a mouse that didn't know how to grow a tail properly actually work?

Yes it will...as far as looking perfectly fine. Mine is a normal looking nose, and it doesn't work properly. I'm hoping when this cold is over with that it will again, but just ignore that point.

Those are not staples - that's entirely too morbid for me to accept. It is a zipper. He is a doll. He has an old shaggy rug for hair. He is very well loved by the child that owns him, and the weird old creole grandma that made him most definitely did not add any odd pins to him before decided he made a decent child's toy.

Speaking of children related stuff. My kids went trick-or-treating this week, and at one house were given a bunch of stickers. I discovered later on that most of them were appropriate - cute little sloths and bright pink colored random other happy animals - and then I discovered my son had a sticker in his bag that said "Keep your dick beaters off my tools" and it had a hand holding a wrench with a big no-no circle with line across it. I'm not certain that my son even read it (he is not interested in stickers), and it seemed to have left no impression on him, as though it went right over his head. Yay! I'm going with the belief that someone accidentally added it to the cutsie sticker pile...

And I don't really know why I am telling you this story, other than it happened this evening and popped into my head, and I haven't talked to you in ages. So there you have it.