December 2023
December 16, 2023
Miss Futuristic Canned Foods
What would futuristic canned foods look like? And at what point in the future will we get this stuff?Putting those questions aside, what I find really odd about the clipping below is that it gives the Social Security Number of Miss Futuristic Canned Foods.
At first I thought the number must be a joke (though I didn't understand the joke), but according to the Social Security Death Index that number belonged to a woman named Janet Lee, who was born in 1935 and died in 2008. The dates are about right. Jan would be short for Janet. And Lee would be her married name. So that must really have been the SSN of Miss Futuristic Canned Foods.
The numbers indicate that the card was issued to her in Indiana sometime between 1936 and 1950.
Charlotte News - Mar 5, 1957
Posted By: Alex - Sat Dec 16, 2023 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Food, 1950s
My Favorite Martians
The Wikipedia entry.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 16, 2023 -
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Category: Aliens, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Television, Cartoons, 1970s
December 15, 2023
Apostrophe Protection Society
Protecting the apostrophe since 2001, since its a threatened species: apostrophe.org.uk
Posted By: Alex - Fri Dec 15, 2023 -
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Category: Clubs, Fraternities and Other Self-selecting Organizations, Languages
The Flying Flea
Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 15, 2023 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Hobbies and DIY, Inventions, Air Travel and Airlines, 1930s
December 14, 2023
National Radio Silence Day
From Wikipedia:No Martian messages were received.
More info: ufopast.com
Posted By: Alex - Thu Dec 14, 2023 -
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Category: Aliens, Radio, 1920s
Electric Trains and You
A song of the season. This word might come in handy: paraphilia.Paraphilia is the experience of recurring or intense sexual arousal to atypical objects, situations, fantasies, behaviors, or individuals.[1][2] It has also been defined as a sexual interest in anything other than a consenting human partner.[
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 14, 2023 -
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Category: Holidays, Toys, Trains and Other Vehicles on Rails, 1960s, Love & Romance
December 13, 2023
People Leave Ann Alone
Ladies Home Journal - May 1970
Posted By: Alex - Wed Dec 13, 2023 -
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Category: Advertising, 1970s
PLAY: A Ballet by Alexander Ekman
Your opinions of these clips solicited.The creator's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 13, 2023 -
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Category: Avant Garde, Dance, Twenty-first Century
December 12, 2023
Vegiforms
Back in the 1980s, Richard Tweddell III invented a way to grow vegetables into shapes such as faces, hearts, pop bottles, etc. by using plastic molds. As he wrote: "Just plant regular seeds in your garden, in the usual way. When the young vegetable forms, place it into the two part plastic mold and watch it grow to fill the mold. That's all there is to it."I don't know why his invention never caught on. If I had a vegetable garden, I'd use them. But perhaps the idea of vegetables shaped like small human heads didn't appeal to enough people.
More info: archived vegiforms website, Tweddell's obituary, vegiform patent
Tweddell with a vegiform
Posted By: Alex - Tue Dec 12, 2023 -
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Category: Horticulture and Gardens, Patents, Vegetables
Santa in the Slammer
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 12, 2023 -
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Category: Holidays, Prisons, 1970s
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