March 2021
March 6, 2021
Antler Island - the game
A game the whole family can play. As described on BoardGameGeek.com:
Or as described in the video review below: "There is a lot of sex with animals in it. They're mating."
Posted By: Alex - Sat Mar 06, 2021 -
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Category: Animals, Games
“Lazy,” by the Brox Sisters
I hope all WU-vies can enjoy a lazy weekend!Their Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 06, 2021 -
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Category: Music, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1920s
March 5, 2021
Amazon’s Hitler Mustache Logo, and other logo design disasters
BBC News reports that Amazon recently changed its shopping-app logo, in response to complaints that it reminded people of Hitler's mustache. The new logo (below right) is supposed to better represent a piece of parcel tape, which was the original intent, rather than a dictator's mustache.
This reminds me of the topic of logo design disasters, which I once write a short blurb about for another site. That site no longer exists, so I figured I might as well post the blurb here (below, in extended).
More in extended >>
Posted By: Alex - Fri Mar 05, 2021 -
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Category: Business, Design and Designers
Lys Chelys, French Female Fakir
Modern performers like David Blaine, who entomb themselves in glass boxes, are carrying on an old tradition, as seen below in the first video with Lys Chelys.The still photo shows her exiting her "sarcophage" after 57 days without eating.
After her items, we have a full movie utilizing the same theme.
Photo source.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 05, 2021 -
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Category: Food, Magic and Illusions and Sleight of Hand, Performance Art, 1950s, Europe, United Kingdom
March 4, 2021
How big is heaven?
A strange Christian controversy from the 1920s: how big exactly is Heaven?
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Aug 8, 1927
Posted By: Alex - Thu Mar 04, 2021 -
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Category: Religion, 1920s
Miss Cheesecake of 1951
Unlike many beauty queens, Franca Faldini did not hit a dead end with the assumption of her bogus title, but went on to have a decent career.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 04, 2021 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Movies, 1950s, Europe
March 3, 2021
Fly Cheryl
An infamous ad campaign created by Forest William Free for National Airlines. Info from the Hudson River Valley Institute:
Posted By: Alex - Wed Mar 03, 2021 -
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Category: Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, Advertising, 1970s
Follies of the Madmen #501
Our jockey shorts will have every male emulating a hula girl.Source.
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Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 03, 2021 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Underwear, 1950s, Gender-bending
March 2, 2021
Old Age Rejuvenator Centrifuge
It would probably work about as well as any other anti-aging treatment.More info: Modern Mechanix
Science and Mechanics - Aug 1935
Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 02, 2021 -
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Category: Elderly and Seniors, Inventions, 1930s
Commercial Telegraph Codes
I was randomly browsing old publications online when I ran across this ad. Thinking about the topic of Communication Codes, I found it hard to believe we had never covered it at WU. But apparently not.
In telecommunication, a commercial code is a code once used to save on cablegram costs.[1]...These codes turned complete phrases into single words (commonly of five letters). These were not always genuine words; for example, codes contained "words" such as BYOXO ("Are you trying to weasel out of our deal?"), LIOUY ("Why do you not answer my question?"), BMULD ("You're a skunk!"), or AYYLU ("Not clearly coded, repeat more clearly.").
Here is a page linking to many digitized volumes.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 02, 2021 -
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Category: Business, Technology, Codes, Cryptography, Puzzles, Riddles, Rebuses and Other Language Alterations, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
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