Astronaut Space Suit

Spacemen - July 1961

Posted By: Alex - Sat Apr 20, 2024 - Comments (3)
Category: Fashion, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, 1960s

Dr. MacDonald’s Astrological Dream Book

Read the whole thing here, and see what fate has in store for you!

Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 20, 2024 - Comments (0)
Category: Dreams and Nightmares, New Age, Rants, Warnings, Jeremiads, Prophecies and Cassandra-like Figures, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal, 1920s

Wizz Air to fly on human waste

So there really is a European airline named Wizz Air (I had to check wikipedia to make sure it was real), and it recently announced that by 2030 "up to 10% of its flights could be powered by sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) derived from human waste." From msn.com:

Posted By: Alex - Fri Apr 19, 2024 - Comments (0)
Category: Excrement, Air Travel and Airlines

French Fry Injector

Why slather your fires with ketchup or cheese or mayo like a peasant, when you could laboriously inject the condiment into each individual fry?


Full patent here.

Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 19, 2024 - Comments (0)
Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Inventions, Patents, Junk Food, Twenty-first Century

Meet Miss Electronic

Once upon a time answering machines were considered strange and dumbfounding.

Wilmington News Journal - Mar 31, 1956

Posted By: Alex - Thu Apr 18, 2024 - Comments (1)
Category: Technology, Telephones, 1950s

Wild Stereo Drums

Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 18, 2024 - Comments (1)
Category: Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, 1960s

One’s really his mother…

A young man with Oedipus issues.

Better Homes and Gardens - Sep 1969

Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 17, 2024 - Comments (1)
Category: Advertising, Parents, 1960s

Unauthorized Dwellings 33

Read the full story here.

NOTE: image is generic.

A man in Washington smelled cigarette smoke in his home and traced it to an upstairs loft. There he found a makeshift bed, a running heater, half-eaten food, and drugs. The following day the suspect returned to the house and was taken into custody, police said.

Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 17, 2024 - Comments (3)
Category: Drugs, Stupid Criminals, Unauthorized Dwellings, Twenty-first Century

Saved pennies crash through ceiling

Aug 1947: Clarence Ellsworth had been saving pennies by dropping them through a crack in his attic floor. Finally, when the number of pennies reached 1,672, the weight of the pennies broke through the ceiling and landed in his living room.

This raises the question: how much did 1,672 pennies weigh?

According to Wikipedia, pennies issued before 1982 each weighed 3.11 grams since they were made from 95% copper. After 1982, the U.S. Mint substituted a copper-plated zinc penny that weighed less.

3.11 times 1,672 comes out to 5200 grams (rounding up) — or approximately eleven and-a-half pounds.

I'm surprised that was enough to break his ceiling. Perhaps there were other issues, such as water damage, that contributed to the break.

According to an online inflation calculator, $16.72 in 1947 money would be worth $234.18 today. And the repairs would have cost approximately $175 (in today's money).

Bangor Daily News - Aug 12, 1947

Posted By: Alex - Tue Apr 16, 2024 - Comments (2)
Category: Money, 1940s

Into the Stream

Betcha can't watch/listen to the whole thing!

The artist's Wikipedia page.

Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 16, 2024 - Comments (3)
Category: Music, Avant Garde, Asia, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults