Animals
The CB Bears
What fad of our current era will date as badly as CB radio?The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 11, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Fads, Humor, Parody, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Cartoons, 1970s
Novel Device for Stopping a Runaway Horse
If you read the words on the "counterweight," they say, "Recommendations for Reichenbach's Tile Drains." So this is a humorous advertisement rather than an actual patent. But I would not be surprised if someone somewhere had come up with such an idea.
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Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 07, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Humor, Nineteenth Century
The Twilight People
Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 02, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Antisocial Activities, Cryptozoology, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Mad Scientists, Evil Geniuses, Insane Villains, Movies, 1970s, Asia
Partisan Boxers
Just in time for the 2020 election, from the legendary Frederick's Of Hollywood.
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Posted By: Paul - Fri May 29, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Politics, Underwear, 1950s
Guard Pig
We recently posted about tarantulas used to guard jewelry. Another unconventional security animal was CP, the guard pig, trained to attack by animal trainer Marcel Leblanc:Leblanc said he bought CP—which stands for Canadian Pig—"to fatten up and slaughter for a friend's party."
But he said he noticed the 150-pound, 6-month-old, pink and white Yorkshire pig learned tricks quickly. So he placed the animal among the Doberman pinschers and German shepherds in a police canine training program.
"The pig performed better than the dogs," said Leblanc.
If a 150-pound pig was charging at me, I'd sure run away!
Orlando Sentinel - Sep 23, 1979
El Paso Times - Oct 10, 1979
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Oct 10, 1979
Posted By: Alex - Thu May 28, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Crime, 1970s
“I have a trunkful of money to deposit”
Charlie Becker, midget trainer with Singer's Midgets, walked the smallest elephant of his troupe to Merchant's Bank, and made a deposit for Keith's Theatre. The elephant delivered the money satchel directly to the receiving teller
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Posted By: Paul - Tue May 19, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Money, 1920s
The Painter Joachim Raphaël Boronali
NOTW and Weird Universe have covered innumerable art world hoaxes and farces. Paintings hung upside down, installations destroyed by janitors, large prize money for unmade beds, and so forth. Here is one of the first such japes. A painting done by a donkey with a brush tied to its tail, and exhibited at a famous Paris salon as the work of a new painter named Joachim Raphaël Boronali.
Read the whole story here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 14, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Art, Avant Garde, Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Twentieth Century
One Brave Dog
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Posted By: Paul - Wed May 06, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Parents, Dogs, Courage, Bravery, Heroism and Valor
Follies of the Madmen #475
Makes you smell like half a horse.
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Posted By: Paul - Sun May 03, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Advertising, 1960s, Fictional Monsters, Perfume and Cologne and Other Scents
Veggie Cannibalism
We all know of the "animal cannibal" motif in ads. A chicken or cow or pig dressed as a chef invites the viewer to snack on his relatives. But I have never seen veggie cannibalism till this ad.Can WU-vies find other examples?
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 15, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Cannibalism, Vegetables
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