December 2019
December 26, 2019
Mystery image
What does this image depict? Answer in extended.
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Posted By: Alex - Thu Dec 26, 2019 -
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Category: Quizzes
Follies of the Madmen #458
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 26, 2019 -
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Category: Fashion, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1960s, Men, Women
December 25, 2019
Don’t Do It Santa!
Arrow Shirts — saving Santa from suicide!
Posted By: Alex - Wed Dec 25, 2019 -
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Category: Advertising, 1940s, Christmas
Merry Christmas, 2019!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 25, 2019 -
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Category: Food, Holidays, Children, Nineteenth Century, Nostalgia
December 24, 2019
Dishes cleaned by peeling
Someone obviously spent time to develop these peelable plates. So I wonder what advantage they saw in sticking the plates together, as opposed to just having a stack of cheap, paper plates?
Posted By: Alex - Tue Dec 24, 2019 -
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Category: Inventions, 1920s
In the Suburbs
Your happiness is assured if you subscribe to REDBOOK.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 24, 2019 -
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Category: Culture and Civilization, Family, Magazines, 1950s
December 23, 2019
Safety Pin Earrings
Being sold by ASOS for $9.50, which wouldn't seem like much for any other earring, but seems outrageously expensive for safety pins. But ASOS says they're "glamorous" safety pins, so maybe they're worth it.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Dec 23, 2019 -
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Category: Fashion
Radiorama, “Vampires”
Their Wikipedia page. Don't abandon this until the actual "singing" starts.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 23, 2019 -
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Category: Bombast, Bloviation and Pretentiousness, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, 1980s, Fictional Monsters
December 22, 2019
Fly-Operated Turtle
Patent No. 1,591,905, granted to Oscar C. Williams of San Diego, CA in 1926, described this curious device.It was a toy turtle. Its body was made of wood or aluminum, while the head, legs, and tail were made from lightweight cork. The user was supposed to insert several flies into the hollow body of the turtle. Their agitations once inside, as they sought to escape, would then cause the movable parts of the turtle to wag from side to side, as if the creature was alive.
I can see several drawbacks. First, you would have to catch some flies and maneuver them (alive) into the turtle. This was done by squeezing them through the leg hole. Handling a fly in this way seems like it could be a challenge.
And once in there, I imagine you'd have to wait until the flies died to get them back out. So, essentially, it was a fly torture device.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Dec 22, 2019 -
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Category: Insects and Spiders, Inventions, Patents, Toys, 1920s
The Gay Bob Doll
Read the whole story here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 22, 2019 -
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Category: Toys, 1970s, LGBT
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