November 2017
November 5, 2017
Soil My Undies Challenge
The California Farmers Guild is challenging farmers to soil their undies. More info: farmersguild.orgAnd Scottish farmers are also taking up the challenge. (telegraph.co.uk)
Posted By: Alex - Sun Nov 05, 2017 -
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Category: Farming, Underwear
Charlie Does Dan
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 05, 2017 -
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Category: Culture and Civilization, Music, Crossovers and Mashups, Cartoons, Twentieth Century
November 4, 2017
Driftwood Collection
Whenever I come across stories about collectors of unusual items, I always wonder what happened to their collection after they died. They went to all that trouble to collect it, and then usually relatives end up tossing it all.
Fond Du Lac Commonwealth Reporter - Nov 9, 1965
Posted By: Alex - Sat Nov 04, 2017 -
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Category: Collectors, 1960s
Mystery Gadget 53
What is going on inside this giant potato?
The answer is here.
And after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 04, 2017 -
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Category: Technology, 1930s
November 3, 2017
Coffee For Dogs
Nordic entrepreneur Jakutyte is trying to launch a new product on Kickstarter. It's coffee for dogs. Or, as she's calling it, "Rooffee." She came up with that name, she said, by combining the words roots and coffee. (Surprised me it wasn't Wroof and coffee... but that would be Wrooffee.) She swears she didn't know there's a date-rape drug called roofies. She's posted an update on her Kickstarter page saying she's gonna change the name... but hasn't decided to what yet.Her coffee for dogs doesn't actually contain any coffee. She says it's "a coffee type of drink made from Nordic wild roots containing no agricultural chemicals or pesticides, no caffeine, and no other nonsense." So it's actually brown liquid for dogs.
via buzzfeed
Posted By: Alex - Fri Nov 03, 2017 -
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Category: Coffee and other Legal Stimulants, Dogs
French Key Ring Craze
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 03, 2017 -
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Category: Fads, 1960s, Europe
November 2, 2017
Air Raid Noise Experiment
These pictures in the Google Arts picture archive don't come with any explanatory text, except that they're from an "Air Raid Noise Experiment" conducted in Nuneaton in 1941. But I suspect that the experiment was part of a series of psychological experiments conducted in the UK in 1941 that attempted to "harden Britons to bomb shock." The idea was to expose people to the sounds of air raid sirens and battle sounds so that they would lose their fear of them. As described in the news clipping below:
The Greenfield Daily Reporter - Nov 28 1941
I've been aware of these experiments for a while. I previously posted something about them back in 2009. But I just came across these photos and realized they must be from one of these experiments.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Nov 02, 2017 -
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Category: Noises and Other Public Disturbances of the Peace, War, Experiments, Psychology, 1940s
November 1, 2017
Hothouse Children
Well, that's one theory, I guess...
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 01, 2017 -
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Category: Children, Crackpots, Nineteenth Century
Pinky Bonded
Rachel Deckert was supposed to turn herself in at the Lewis County Jail on an outstanding misdemeanor warrant. She did. Problem was, she was pinky bonded to her girlfriend, and they couldn't separate. As a form of couples therapy the two had used epoxy to glue their pinky fingers together inside a copper pipe.Said Detective Patty Finch, "They haven’t been able to feel their fingers for three days."
Not clear how the two will be unattached. Pinky amputation is a possibility.
More info: The Chronicle
Posted By: Alex - Wed Nov 01, 2017 -
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Category: Prisons, Couples
Japananese McDonald’s Cherry Blossom Menu
The drink.
The fries.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 01, 2017 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Food, Asia
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