December 2014
December 21, 2014
Dr. Black & Mr. Hyde
Caution: gratuitous bare female flesh for a few seconds at the start.
Full movie below.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 21, 2014 -
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Category: Horror, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1970s
December 20, 2014
Santa still at large
Posted By: Alex - Sat Dec 20, 2014 -
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Category: Crime
Wood Apple Marriage in Nepal
This page semi-coherently explains: "...a ceremony in the Newar community in Nepal in which pre-adolescent girls are 'married' to the bel fruit (wood apple), which is a symbol of the god Vishnu, ensuring that the girl becomes and remains fertile. It is believed that if the girl's husband dies later in her life, she is not considered a widow because she is married to Vishnu, and so already has a husband that is believed to be still alive."
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 20, 2014 -
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Category: Food, Children, Foreign Customs, Asia, Weddings
December 19, 2014
Meow Mansion
"Meow Mansion" is a large gingerbread house with a serious message — neuter your cat!The house, created by artist Kazz Morohashi, is home to (gingerbread) Kitty and Boots and their 65 kittens. But since Kitty and Boots haven't been neutered, their family just keeps growing and growing. Next year it'll be up to 300. And by 2017 up to 11,000.
Which raises the question: how exactly does one neuter a gingerbread cat? [via edp24 and flickr]
Posted By: Alex - Fri Dec 19, 2014 -
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Category: Cats
Follies of the Madmen #237
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 19, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Radio, 1920s, Bodybuilding
December 18, 2014
His wife was his aunt
I can't quite figure out what dentist Jeffrey Gordon was up to. Was the plan to annul his marriage in order to remarry his wife to make their marriage fully legal? That's what I'm assuming. The law legalizing marrying your aunt-by-marriage must not have been retroactive. But evidently his wife didn't fully trust him. So there must have been more to the story.Source: The Paris Texas News - Sep 29, 1960.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Dec 18, 2014 -
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Category: Family, Husbands, Wives, 1960s
Artificial Morale Booster
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 18, 2014 -
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Category: Chindogu
December 17, 2014
Queen Victoria in Goggles
Queen Victoria looked very steampunk when she had to wear goggles in 1899 in an attempt to cure her cataracts. Though I'm not sure how goggles would have helped without surgery, which she refused to have.
Source: The Philadelphia Times - July 30, 1899
And in a case of art imitating life, you can buy a "Steampunk Queen Victoria" mug here. I'm not sure if the site selling the mug realizes that Queen Victoria actually wore goggles like this in real life.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Dec 17, 2014 -
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Category: Nineteenth Century
Christopher Paolini Reads “The Eye Of Argon”
The history of the tale.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 17, 2014 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Performance Art, Fantasy
December 16, 2014
White Goat Toilet Paper Machine
This was in the news a few years ago. But it was new to me, so perhaps new to you also.It's a machine, called White Goat, that transforms office paper into toilet paper, in only 30 minutes. Unfortunately, at $100,000, it's not exactly cost effective. But it would have to boost employee morale to know they were wiping their behinds with company reports and the boss's memos. [via techcrunch]
Posted By: Alex - Tue Dec 16, 2014 -
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Category: Hygiene, Excrement
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