1960s
A Lesson In Love
The creator's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 12, 2024 -
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Category: Humor, Self-help Schemes, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, Psychology, 1960s
Air-Conditioning the Outdoors
House Beautiful - Oct 1966
Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 11, 2024 -
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Category: Advertising, 1960s
Mr. President Game
Just in case you have not gotten your fill of politics this year, why not search out a copy of the Mr. President Game and play a few rounds?Visit Board Game Geek for details.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 01, 2024 -
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Category: Games, Politics, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #607
Next time a female police officer stops you, ask if she's wearing Eiderlon panties.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 30, 2024 -
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Category: Fashion, Underwear, Advertising, 1960s
Secrets of Successful Varmint Calling
Secrets of Successful Varmint Calling, by Johnny Stewart, was released in 1967. I could only find a brief clip from it, but I pasted an article below with some more tips on varmint calling.Here in Phoenix you don't need any special trick to find varmints (aka coyotes). Just go for a walk in the early morning and you're bound to see one.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Aug 5, 1984
Posted By: Alex - Sun Sep 29, 2024 -
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Category: Animals, Hunting, Trapping and Other Wilderness Activities, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1960s
The effect of humming on vision
A Dec 1967 article ("Effect of humming on vision") by William Rushton in the journal Nature reported that:I'm sure that's interesting, but it's a response to Rushton's article published four months later that I find more interesting. A former member of the Air Training Corps described how it was possible, by humming (or rather, "purring"), to make your head vibrate such that, when looking at a spinning propeller, the propeller would seem to stop in mid-air. By increasing or decreasing the intensity of humming/purring, one could then determine in which direction the propeller was rotating.
I haven't tested this out to see if it works, but if any of you do have a chance to test it out, please report back with your results.
Nature - Apr 20, 1968
Posted By: Alex - Fri Sep 27, 2024 -
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Category: Science, Air Travel and Airlines, 1960s, Eyes and Vision
Follies of the Madmen #606
Insane adult co-opts kids in his cereal scheme.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 23, 2024 -
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Category: Advertising, Cereal, Cartoons, 1960s, Mental Health and Insanity
Embryonic Development of the Light-Brown Apple Moth
Another contender in the Great Boredom Sweepstakes.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 21, 2024 -
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Category: Boredom, Education, Insects and Spiders, PSA’s, Science, 1960s
Va-rice-ity
Heavy sexual innuendo to sell rice.
Life - Oct 3, 1969
Life - (L) Mar 13, 1970; (R) June 19, 1970
Posted By: Alex - Thu Sep 19, 2024 -
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Category: Food, Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, Advertising, 1960s, 1970s
The dog with the nuclear nose
Physicist Cristjo Cristofv claimed that his cocker spaniel, Bijou, could not only detect nuclear fallout but also "changes in the atmospheric electrical field" caused by nuclear explosions halfway around the world.Certainly a dog like that would be worth at least $10 million. Or so he claimed when the dog died as a result of a bad reaction to medicine given to it by a vet.
Cristofv eventually dropped his lawsuit against the vet due to unexplained "security reasons."
Peninsula Times - July 30, 1965
Chicago Tribune - July 30, 1965
Akron Beacon Journal - May 25, 1966
Posted By: Alex - Wed Sep 18, 2024 -
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Category: Lawsuits, Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, Dogs, 1960s
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