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Electric Exercise Gloves
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 10, 2015 -
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Category: Inventions, Bodybuilding
Follies of the Madmen #237
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 19, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Radio, 1920s, Bodybuilding
Paul von Boeckmann, Champion Breather
Original ad here.
Hard to argue with the assertion that one has to breathe to stay alive.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 17, 2013 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Twentieth Century, Bodybuilding
The Egyptian Popeye
Mustafa Ismail won the 2013 Guinness World Record for having the largest biceps. He's called the 'Egyptian Popeye.' He insists his bulging arm muscles are 100% natural, and according to albawaba.com, 'Japanese doctors' have examined him, looking for any signs of doping or suspicious needle marks, and have pronounced him to be the real deal. But I'm having trouble believing that. Arm muscles simply don't develop like that naturally.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Nov 20, 2012 -
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Category: Body, Bodybuilding, Sports, World Records
Mrs. Jones’ Flesh Grower
Who knew bioengineering and stem cells were in use so long ago?
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 10, 2012 -
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Category: Body, Bodybuilding, Body Modifications, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Self-help Schemes, 1900s
Venus with Biceps
The B&W foto is a sample from the book.
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 04, 2011 -
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Category: Books, Women, Bodybuilding
Dreaming Of A Weird Christmas!
Not requiring a flu jab, but in need of a facelift, was the 66’ fibreglass Santa that has been the centrepiece of Auckland, New Zealand’s Christmas pageant for nearly 50 years. With a droopy winking eye and a gesturing mechanical finger, the jolly red giant was beginning, in the words of one local, to “look a little creepy.” But not anymore, as NZ$100,000 have been spent refurbishing the big guy ahead of this Sunday’s grand unveiling (Reuters).
Someone definitely not in need of a facelift is the recently announced “Hunky Santa of 2009.” Los Angeles mall the Beverley Center first introduced their hunky Santas nine years ago, swapping abs and pecs for the beard and britches. This year north-pole toting poseur is James Ellis, who hopes to encourage people to live more healthily and wants to be a role model for kids by parading his festive physique in a fur-trimmed red vest (LA Times).
All of which is not the sort of thing you’re likely to see during Raleigh, North Carolina’s Christmas parade. So worried are parade organisers that the little ones might be confused by two people dressed in red that they have banned “Mrs. Claus” from participating in costume. They have even asked attendees not to wear Santa-hats in case it distracts attention from the “real” St. Nick (WXII12).
And further killjoyery (?) this week from the Employers Forum on Belief, which has advised company bosses that to close their office over Christmas might be construed as discriminatory, since non-Christian employees must use annual leave for their religious holidays. Instead of emphasising the holiday’s religious nature, say the EFB, management should focus on the cost-effectiveness of the closure as a majority of staff would be absent anyway (ILM).
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Posted By: Dumbfounded - Tue Nov 24, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Exercise and Fitness, Feminism, Health, Holidays, Hygiene, Law, Religion, Bodybuilding
Early Bodybuilding
And now, some Victorian Beefcake.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 06, 2009 -
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Category: Nineteenth Century, Bodybuilding
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