April 2018
April 15, 2018
Multipurpose Fallout Shelter
•Carport
•Patio
•Play Room
•Hobby Room
•Fallout Shelter
Salt Lake Tribune - Dec 17, 1961
Posted By: Alex - Sun Apr 15, 2018 -
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Category: Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1960s
Yvette Dare
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 15, 2018 -
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Category: Animals, Entertainment, Public Indecency, 1940s
April 14, 2018
Lois Lane, chain smoker
I've seen Superman II a couple of times, but the fact that Lois Lane was chain smoking never registered with me. I'm guessing that cigarettes would have no effect on Superman. So he'd never bother to smoke. Although he mentions in the clip below that he never drinks when he flies. So evidently he can get drunk.From Drugging the Poor: Legal and Illegal Drugs and Social Inequality, by Merrill Singer:
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Posted By: Alex - Sat Apr 14, 2018 -
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Category: Movies, Advertising, Smoking and Tobacco
The Female Bunch
"Turning women's lib into a menacing reality."
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 14, 2018 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, 1970s, Women
April 13, 2018
Carrying the cross against feminism
Given the point she was trying to make, seems like it would have been more appropriate to drag her husband as he reclined in a rickshaw, or something along those lines.
Baltimore Sun - July 21, 1997
The Guardian - July 22, 1997
Posted By: Alex - Fri Apr 13, 2018 -
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Category: Religion, Gender, Women, 1990s
Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth
Full text here.
Thanks to Richard Bleiler.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 13, 2018 -
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Category: Hygiene, Poetry, Nineteenth Century, Diseases, Teeth
April 12, 2018
23-mile paper chain
Butch Baker of Four Oaks, North Carolina began making a paper chain in 1979. The chain is now 23-miles long, weighs 2300 pounds, and takes up much of his living room. And he’s still working on it. (He knows it's length because he's been measuring it as he makes it.)The problem is, Butch is 78 and doesn't know what will happen to the chain when he dies.
More info: news observer
image source: Four Oaks Journal - Feb 2016 (pdf)
Posted By: Alex - Thu Apr 12, 2018 -
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Category: Hobbies and DIY, World Records
Follies of the Madmen #359
Source of ad.
"Susan Smart," Woolworth's spokeslady, is definitely one of those characters I refer to as Lesser-Known Ad Icons. It might have helped her longevity if the ad people could have settled on one particular appearance for her.
Second ad from MODERN SCREEN for Feb 1952.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 12, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, 1950s
April 11, 2018
Rambo Bubble Gum
Raspberry-flavored gum shaped to resemble shrapnel or flak.Went on sale in 1985, as a tie-in with the release of Rambo II.
image source: Candy Wrapper Museum
Wisconsin State Journal - Nov 3, 1985
Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 11, 2018 -
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Category: War, Candy, 1980s
Rupkali, the Smoking Elephant of Baroda
Around 1:55, you will see Rupkali enjoying his hookah.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 11, 2018 -
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Category: Animals, Bad Habits, Neuroses and Psychoses, Tobacco and Smoking, 1930s
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