April 2015
April 17, 2015
Gaytime Raspberry Roughs
Alas, in this less-innocent year of 2015, anyone soliciting a "gaytime raspberry rough" and expecting an ice cream treat is likely to get something different than they anticipated.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 17, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Food, Public Indecency, 1960s, Double Entendres and Nudge-Nudge, Wink-Wink
April 16, 2015
Walking in the streets
Here's another idiotic fad of yesteryear (the early 1960s) — teenagers walking in the streets: "Not only do many students shun the sidewalks completely but they are walking four and five abreast, completely taking up one lane of the road."
Source: The Holland Evening Sentinel - Feb 21, 1963.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Apr 16, 2015 -
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Category: Fads, 1960s
The Gospel Singing Jubilee
Those suits! Those hair-dos! Those pop arrangements of venerable tunes! It's Lawrence Welk for Bible-thumpers.
Some background.
Three more segments below the jump, and even more on YouTube..
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 16, 2015 -
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Category: Kitsch and Collectibles, Music, Religion, Television, 1960s, 1970s
Wooden Head
Archeologists on a dig in Gdansk, Poland found something interesting in a 18th century toilet. A 300 year old dildo. It is constructed from leather with a wooden head. At 8 inches it seems to indicate high expectations.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Apr 16, 2015 -
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April 15, 2015
For Sale: Counterfeit Money
Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 15, 2015 -
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Category: Stupid Criminals
Odd Place Names of Missouri
Original article here.
Tightwad, MO
Crybaby Holler, MO
Barely Do, MO
Old Dishrag, MO
Hell on the Line, MO
Not, MO
Rat, MO
Competition, MO
Koshkonong, MO
Peculiar, MO
Frankenstein, MO
Romance, MO
Braggadocio, MO
Yup, them's some odd names, allright.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 15, 2015 -
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Category: Regionalism, Weird Names, North America
April 14, 2015
TSA gets a hold on things
A couple of TSA agents at Denver International Airport have been found manipulating the screening process to grope other mens gentials they found attractive.
Posted By: BrokeDad - Tue Apr 14, 2015 -
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Category: Air Travel and Airlines, Men
Smoking Is Deadly
If you are going to haul gun powder around on the front seat of your car then perhaps DON'T light a cigarette. Or better yet, don't haul gun powder around at all. Darwin Award averted for now.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Apr 14, 2015 -
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Category: Accidents, Goofs and Screw-ups, Explosives
Kidney stone-removing bed
Zhu Qinghua, a Chinese rice farmer, has invented a "kidney stone-removing bed." A person is strapped into the bed and hung upside down. Then the entire device vibrates intensely thanks to some kind of tractor engine attached to it.Zhu has been strapping his wife into this thing and claims it's completely cured her kidney stones. [shanghaiist.com]
Posted By: Alex - Tue Apr 14, 2015 -
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Category: Inventions, Medicine
Bollywood King Kong
More info here.
Tip of the hat to my pal Lawrence Person.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 14, 2015 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Creatures, Asia
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