December 2017
December 12, 2017
Shakespeare Rap
Posted By: Alex - Tue Dec 12, 2017 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music
Mystery Illustration 64
What are these two people doing?
The answer is here.
Or after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 12, 2017 -
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Category: Communications, 1960s
December 11, 2017
Wearable Furniture
It needs a lampshade-hat to round out the look.
via incrediblethings.com
Posted By: Alex - Mon Dec 11, 2017 -
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Category: Fashion
Follies of the Madmen #340
Sexy zebra endorses nylons.
UPDATE: alas, ad now behind a paywall since I found it.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 11, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Products, Sex Symbols, Underwear, 1950s
December 10, 2017
D.N.R. Tattoo
From the Journal of General Internal Medicine, Oct 2012, 27(10): 1383-1383:
Posted By: Alex - Sun Dec 10, 2017 -
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Category: Medicine, Tattoos
The Rain People
Based on the scene below, one suspects that this early Francis Ford Coppola movie has not aged well due to its 1960s preoccupations and stylings.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 10, 2017 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, 1960s
December 9, 2017
Over-Yodeled
1993: A German court ordered that a couple deserved a partial refund of the cost of their two-week Caribbean cruise, since the cruise company hadn't warned them beforehand that 500 of the 600 passengers on the cruise would be Swiss yodelers, who would be practicing their yodels constantly.
Wilmington News Journal - Jan 13, 1993
Posted By: Alex - Sat Dec 09, 2017 -
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Category: Holidays, Music, 1990s
Tempest, by Robert Seidel
tempest | robert seidel | digital graffiti festival | florida 2017 from Robert Seidel on Vimeo.
Essentially, similar to those projectors that cast Christmas snowflakes on your ranch house.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 09, 2017 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Psychedelic, Twenty-first Century
December 8, 2017
Name That List, #44
What is this a list of? The answer is below in extended.- Analgesin
- 100% Pure Maple Syrup
- Blues Bonnet of Austin
- Chihuahua Show
- Direct Mail
- Electric Switch
- February
- Fill-er-up
- Fire Prevention Week
- Freeway
- Geiger Counter
- July Fourth
- Lobster
- Magnesium Lamp
- Negligee
- One for the Road
- Orchid
- Photoflash
- Potato Soup
- Standard Foods
- Texas Tomato
- Third Platoon
- United Dairies
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Posted By: Alex - Fri Dec 08, 2017 -
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Category: Name That List
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 8
Continuing our series of esthetic creations that would probably have displeased stern traditionalist Nikita Khrushchev.
About the artist.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 08, 2017 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, 1920s
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