October 2019
October 31, 2019
Halloween Donut Party
Throughout the 1950s, the donut industry tried hard to make Donut Parties a Halloween tradition. Their PR men also claimed that donuts could help make Halloween "more nutritious."
San Bernardino County Sun - Oct 30, 1957
San Bernardino County Sun - Oct 30, 1957
Oct 23, 1955 - “Dos & Don’ts for Halloween Donut Party”
The Salem News - Oct 17, 1955
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Category: Food, Junk Food, Nutrition, Halloween
Brain Bats of Venus
Just out is the second volume chronicling the improbable career of one of the chief Weirdo artists of all time, Basil Wolverton. Required reading for all WU-vies--and a great gift idea!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 31, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Surrealism, Eccentrics, Books, Twentieth Century
October 30, 2019
Skin On
Making trackpads feel more like human skin...More info: marcteyssier.com
Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 30, 2019 -
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Category: Inventions, Technology, Skin and Skin Conditions
Learning To Play The Shenanigan
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 30, 2019 -
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Category: Antiques, Anachronisms and Throwbacks, Authorities and Experts, Cult Figures and Artifacts, Humor, Music, Foreign Customs, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
October 29, 2019
Bossy the Electrified Cow
In the future, when robot cows rule the world, they'll look back on Bossy as one of the first of their kind.
Sumter County Journal - Apr 17, 1941
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 29, 2019 -
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Category: Robots, Technology, AI, Robots and Other Automatons, Farming, Cows, 1940s
Follies of the Madmen #450
Why not eliminate half your potential customers by insisting your product is only for men?
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 29, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Games, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1950s, Men, Women
October 28, 2019
Exploding Cows and People
The fact that Hindus consider cows to be sacred has led to the odd situation in India in which millions of cows freely roam the streets, and all efforts to control their numbers are stymied by cow-rights groups.That's an interesting topic (more info here), but the 1961 headline below implies an entirely different, and somewhat messier kind of problem.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Oct 28, 2019 -
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Category: Explosives, Religion, Cows
The Paul Lynde Halloween Special
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 28, 2019 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Antiques, Anachronisms and Throwbacks, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Celebrities, Confusion, Misunderstanding, and Incomprehension, Eccentrics, Entertainment, Geeks, Nerds and Pointdexters, Humor, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, Superstition, Television, Avant Garde, Surrealism, 1970s, LGBT, Halloween, Nausea, Revulsion and Disgust, Nostalgia
October 27, 2019
Branding Babies
The 1930s-era solution to the problem of babies getting mixed up in hospitals was to temporarily brand newborns with a UV-ray lamp. The procedure was said to be painless, though it was terrible PR to describe it as 'branding'.
Pittsburgh Press - Sep 25, 1938
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Sep 14, 1930
Posted By: Alex - Sun Oct 27, 2019 -
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Category: Babies, 1930s
Eontime World Yinchuan Indoor Theme Park
Proposed, but not yet built, so far as I can tell.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 27, 2019 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Fairs, Amusement Parks, and Resorts, Asia
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