Category:
Animals

Merry Christmas 2018!



Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 25, 2018 - Comments (1)
Category: Animals, Holidays, Music, 1950s

Discerning pig screams

Perhaps it's hard to tell whether it's the pigs or the humans screaming...



Source

Posted By: Alex - Tue Dec 18, 2018 - Comments (2)
Category: Animals, Science

Follies of the Madmen #401



Not quite sure why a kangaroo would be deemed an apt symbol for a conservation-minded USA citizen. Weren't there any miserly Scotsmen available?

Original ad here.

Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 17, 2018 - Comments (3)
Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Money, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1940s, Alcohol

Live Burros From Spencer Gifts

Why oh why did Spencer Gifts ever discontinue this item? My entire Xmas shopping for many people would have been accomplished with one order!



Source.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 16, 2018 - Comments (3)
Category: Animals, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, 1950s

The Chicken Test of Heresy

The first people ever executed as heretics in Germany, back in 1051, were apparently identified as such because of their refusal to kill a chicken. More info from Graeme MacQueen of McMaster University:

In 1051 at Goslar, a town in what is today Germany, a group accused of heresy was examined by ecclesiastical authorities. The heretics:

"were finally condemned when one of the bishops, more zealous in his presentation of the case than mindful of the dignity of his rank, presented them with a live chicken and ordered them to wring its neck. They refused to kill the bird, and were deemed beyond hope of redemption. Ignoring the arguments and threats of the assembly, they refused to recant and were hanged upon a gibbet."

The execution of these heretics, as near as can be determined by modern scholars, was ordered because it was felt that "their attitude implied a dualist-type belief in the transmigration of souls through the animal kingdom" and suggested that they were Manichaeans. The events at Goslar — and this group was not alone among persecuted Christian groups in the eleventh century C.E. in its refusal to kill animals — are often treated by scholars as an important step toward the twelfth century full-blown assault on heresy by the Church linked to the newly proclaimed death penalty for heresy.

Posted By: Alex - Sat Dec 08, 2018 - Comments (2)
Category: Animals, Religion

Ostrich Carts



Why these never caught on, I couldn't imagine.

Source.

Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 04, 2018 - Comments (0)
Category: Animals, Travel, 1910s

Follies of the Madmen #394



Sexy female pigs discuss sending one of their own kind to the slaughterhouse.

Original ad here.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 11, 2018 - Comments (3)
Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Death, Food, 1960s

Wallaby Fur Koozie



Get yours here.

Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 27, 2018 - Comments (0)
Category: Animals, Australia, Alcohol

Exploding Goose

“Mrs. Stewart told deputies the goose, a wild bird which had made its home with the Stewarts, was flying and then suddenly exploded in midair.”

Roseville Press-Tribune - June 16, 1972

Posted By: Alex - Mon Oct 15, 2018 - Comments (5)
Category: Animals, 1970s

Follies of the Madmen #389



"Our whiskey tastes like carrots."

Original ad here.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 14, 2018 - Comments (6)
Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, 1940s, Alcohol

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