February 2019
February 28, 2019
Tiny Bags
Unveiled by French designer Jacquemus at Paris Fashion Week.More details: Harpers Bazaar, HuffPost
Can you find the tiny bag in this image?
Posted By: Alex - Thu Feb 28, 2019 -
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Category: Fashion
Spoon Planet
You will spend some fun time browsing the commemorative spoons at Spoon Planet. I want this Rockette one.Now, when someone says, "I don't have enough spoons to get through the day," you can send them here!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 28, 2019 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Collectors
February 27, 2019
Gold-Fermented Champagne
Here's a new thing for rich people to spend their money on! Winemaker Leclerc Briant has announced that it's producing the world's first-ever champagne that will be fermented and aged in a gold barrel. In fact, it's apparently the first wine of any type to be aged in gold. It'll go on sale in 2021.But why gold? The winemaker explains in an interview with thedrinksbusiness.com:
In response, the folks at thedrinksbusiness.com noted that they "struggled to understand how the gold would affect the fermentation, other than providing an inert and impermeable container for the process."
Of course, it probably won't change the flavor at all. But it's gold, so it will certainly affect the price!
Posted By: Alex - Wed Feb 27, 2019 -
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Category: Inebriation and Intoxicants, Overpriced Merchandise
Change in Sex Blocks Draft
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Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 27, 2019 -
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Category: Law, War, 1940s, Gender-bending, Differently Abled, Handicapped, Challenged, and Otherwise Atypical
February 26, 2019
Can man fly by flapping his arms?
John Seney, an engineer at the Du Pont laboratory in Seaford, Delaware, had an ambitious plan (which he called 'Project Daedalus') to study buzzards and thereby figure out a way to allow a man to fly by flapping his arms — with the help of 36-foot wings strapped to them.Seney's project received quite a bit of media attention for several years in the mid-1960s, but I can't find any report indicating that he ever got to the stage of a test flight.
"Leonardo, the buzzard, is chased in Seaford, Del., basement laboratory of John Seney, 50-year-old scientist who is using the buzzard in his human flight experiments. Pursuing the bird is Stephen Moore who is helping Seney, and if the experiments get off the ground, will see Moore get off the ground with human-propelled wings. That's why they have named the buzzard Leonardo — after Leonardo da Vinci who had dreamed of flying like a bird."
Sarasota Journal - Dec 30, 1964
Baltimore Sun - Feb 21, 1965
Posted By: Alex - Tue Feb 26, 2019 -
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Category: Flight, Experiments, 1960s
Panda and the Magic Serpent (Tale of the White Serpent)
As its Wikipedia page tells us: "It is the first anime in any shape or form to be released in America."
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 26, 2019 -
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Category: Cartoons, 1950s, Asia, North America
February 25, 2019
Name That List, #56
What is this a list of? The answer is below in extended.- Blue trousers
- Shirt
- Tennis shoes
- Blue tunic pullover
- Comb
- Folding toothbrush
- Ballpoint pen
- Informational flyers
- Current personal correspondence
More in extended >>
Posted By: Alex - Mon Feb 25, 2019 -
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Category: Name That List
Follies of the Madmen #414
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Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 25, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Technology, Sex Symbols, Appliances, 1960s
February 24, 2019
Niagara Falls with bubbles
Adding a foaming agent to Niagara Falls was evidently the fantasy of some chemical engineer at Monsanto.
Newsweek - Mar 17, 1952
Posted By: Alex - Sun Feb 24, 2019 -
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Category: Advertising, 1950s, Pranks, Natural Wonders
Hardee’s Road Runner and Ernie
Two lame-o's seeking to capitalize on SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT popularity are employed to endorse burgers.
Many, many more Hardee's commercials here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 24, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Fads, Stereotypes and Cliches, Junk Food, 1970s, Cars
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