March 2012
March 11, 2012
Mystery Gadget 8
What is this gadget doing to the poor goat?
Find out here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 11, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, Technology, 1930s
The Kenmore High Cheerleading Chant
Here's the latest image gone viral. I spotted it on reddit.com, but you can also find it on any number of blogs or facebook posts. My first thought -- I'm pretty sure this is Chuck's work! So posting it here to give some credit where credit is due.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Mar 11, 2012 -
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Category: Racism, School, Sports, Can’t Possibly Be True
March 10, 2012
My Colombia Trip
Expat47 was kind enough to recall that I took a recent trip to Colombia. Those interested can read the whole report here. With lots of neat pictures.But I never encountered the human bloodhound drug!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 10, 2012 -
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Category: Travel, Sightseeing, Paul, South America
Drug Turns Man Into Human Blood Hound
I came across this brief article in a back issue of Fantastic Adventures magazine (August, 1940).
The source isn't the most credible. (I don't think Fantastic Adventures peer-reviewed its articles.) But the story made me curious enough to do a google search to try to figure out where this drug 'anhalonidin' came from. A lot of the search results discuss it in connection with the cactus lophophora, from which comes the drug peyote. That kinda makes sense, I guess. Though I'm not sure if lophophora grows all the way down in Colombia.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Mar 10, 2012 -
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Category: Drugs, Psychedelic, Experiments, Blood
Sexy Russian Popstars
More info here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 10, 2012 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Elderly and Seniors, Ethnic Groupings, Europe, Russia
March 9, 2012
The Joys of Colonialism
A scan from the book L'Homme dans le monde moderne (Casterman, 1959). This is evidently how the French liked to imagine their colonial experience. I think the reality was slightly different. (via Mondorama 2000)
Posted By: Alex - Fri Mar 09, 2012 -
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Category: Propaganda, Thought Control and Brainwashing, Africa
Fresh Guacamole
Longtime WU-vies will surely recall PES's video of humping furniture.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 09, 2012 -
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Category: Food, Surrealism, Stop-motion Animation
March 8, 2012
Two Sixties Trailers
Karloff and Price--how could you go wrong with this double bill? Oh, I should watch them before I say that?
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 08, 2012 -
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Category: Horror, Humor, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, 1960s
The Bat Bomb
A few weeks ago, Paul posted about a plan the U.S. military cooked up during WWII to destroy Japan by triggering volcanic explosions. The article below describes a similarly mad plan -- the Bat Bomb. The idea was to strap incendiary devices to bats, and then drop the bats on Japanese cities.I scanned the article from the Atlantic Monthly, December 1946. I think this was one of the first public descriptions of the bat bomb.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Mar 08, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, War, Weapons
March 7, 2012
Exploding Toilets
Room and board is $12,633 at the University of Chicago, which leads one to ask, how much for a dorm where the toilets DON"T explode slinging excrement and broken porcelain everywhere??
Posted By: Alex - Wed Mar 07, 2012 -
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