Animals
Useful Tip
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 17, 2018 -
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Category: Animals, Annoying Things, 1990s, Pain, Self-inflicted and Otherwise
Mystery Gadget 55
What tha--?
Answer is here.
Or after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 09, 2018 -
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Category: Animals, Technology, 1940s
Follies of the Madmen #340
Sexy zebra endorses nylons.
UPDATE: alas, ad now behind a paywall since I found it.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 11, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Products, Sex Symbols, Underwear, 1950s
Pigeon attacked by clam
Apr 1967: Death match between a pigeon and a clam. And it seems like if a photographer hadn't been there to intervene, the clam would have won.
Terre Haute Tribune - Apr 16, 1967
Posted By: Alex - Sun Nov 19, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, 1960s
Dali’s CHAOS AND CREATION
I would like to find the whole 17-minute video of Dali's CHAOS AND CREATION, especially after reading the description in the newspaper article. But I can only find bits and pieces. The second clip shows a brief image of the motorcycle in the pigpen.
Original article here.
Foto source.
Foto source, more at site.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 14, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Art, Avant Garde, Pop Art, Surrealism, 1960s, Motorcycles
Woody Woodpecker, Deconstructed
Thanks to Mark Evanier, who explains.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 28, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Cartoons, 1960s, Parody
Big Earl the Beer-Drinking Pig
Big Earl was a talented pig. He could drink a can of beer while standing on his hind legs, and then he'd eat the can. He performed this stunt in various barrooms, until the State Liquor Commission found out what was going on and ordered Big Earl to stop, citing a law against bringing pigs into bars.At least, that's how a lot of newspapers reported the story. But it seems there was also a more disturbing part to Big Earl's act. In addition to eating the beer can, he would also eat a live chicken. Someone called to complain, and that's what got his act banned.
Philadelphia Inquirer - May 10, 1975
Minneapolis Star - May 15, 1975
Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 25, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, 1970s
Too Many Tigers
In favor of species extinctions.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 25, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Music, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #329
Tony the Tiger is a protective deity against the occult forces of Friday the Thirteenth?
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 13, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Products, Food, 1960s
Chickens as traffic control
1975: Rather than installing expensive signs or speed bumps, Napa, California experimented with using chickens to slow down motorists on one of its streets — Streblow Drive, bordering Kennedy Park. They simply let 85 chickens roam the park and street at will. Said park superintendent Bob Pelusi, "Only occasionally does an errant driver charge through the flock. In the nine months we've had the chickens on the job, we've lost 12 of them — gone in the line of duty, so to speak."
Tampa Times - Apr 11, 1975
Posted By: Alex - Sat Oct 07, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Highways, Roads, Streets and Traffic, 1970s
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