April 2018
April 10, 2018
The Dutch Mountain
In July 2011, the Dutch journalist Thijs Zonneveld wrote a column in which he proposed that a mountain be built in the Netherlands. He meant the idea as a joke, but people liked it so much that a grassroots movement formed in support of the project.Zonneveld's idea was for the mountain to be 1.2 miles high, and 3.1 miles wide. For which reason, it soon became apparent that a solid mountain wouldn't work. It would be massively expensive, and its weight might lead to earthquakes. But a hollow mountain, that was a definite maybe...
Unfortunately it seems like people have now lost interest in the mountain project. Its website has disappeared, but is still viewable via the Wayback Machine.
More info: wikipedia, reuters.com
Posted By: Alex - Tue Apr 10, 2018 -
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Category: Architecture, Real Estate, Europe
Tavern Trove
With over 35,000 items, ranging from beer cans to cocktail napkins, matchbook covers to letterheads and many other tchotchkes, the Tavern Trove site provides many happy hours of browsing into the weird niches of the liquor biz.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 10, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Retailing, Collectors, Alcohol
April 9, 2018
The Blessing of the Bras
June 1986: "Buddhist priests blessed 200,000 used brassieres yesterday in a temple memorial service for cast-off underwear."
Tampa Tribune - June 8, 1986
Philadelphia Daily News - June 7, 1986
Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 09, 2018 -
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Category: Religion, Underwear, 1980s
The Filling Station Ballet
Wikipedia entry here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 09, 2018 -
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Category: Motor Vehicles, 1930s, Dance
April 8, 2018
Sobriety, sobriety, sobriety…
They thought forcing him to write would teach him sobriety, and yet so many writers are alcoholics.
Indianapolis Star - Oct 23, 1933
Posted By: Alex - Sun Apr 08, 2018 -
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Category: Crime, Writers, 1930s
Old Cawlija
Info at source: "Old Cawlija, a five pound black bass, eats from hand and drinks Falstaff Beer from the can. The tank is placed in front of the Didda-Wa Restaurant."
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 08, 2018 -
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Category: Regionalism, Restaurants, Fish, 1950s, Alcohol
April 7, 2018
Drive the girls wild, like Jethro Tull
Then, fella, whatchoo need is a SUPER-OUTTA-SIGHT-JETHRO-TULL-T-SHIRT of the sort worn by the fullest-handed rakes everywhere.
These eye-catching sartorial groovies, which are guaranteed to reduce even the haughtiest of lovlies to a mound of hot pulsating flesh, are a divine shade of yellow designed to to flatter even the swarthiest of complexion, are the three-buttons-at-the-neck style recently made all the rage by your sharper English groups.
Dangerous Minds speculates that this must have been a joke ad to promote Jethro Tull's 1970 album Benefit.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Apr 07, 2018 -
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Category: Fashion, Music, Advertising
Aeroflot Advertisement
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 07, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Air Travel and Airlines, 1970s
April 6, 2018
Cognac and yogurt
Not a combination that would have occurred to me. But who knows. Perhaps it was really good.
Apparently this product was, like Touch of Yogurt Shampoo, an attempt to cash in on the yogurt craze that was sweeping America at the time.
The Santa Clarita Signal - Aug 24, 1983
Posted By: Alex - Fri Apr 06, 2018 -
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Category: Inebriation and Intoxicants, 1980s
Dog-Powered Scooter
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 06, 2018 -
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Category: Animals
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