Couples
Pinky Bonded
Rachel Deckert was supposed to turn herself in at the Lewis County Jail on an outstanding misdemeanor warrant. She did. Problem was, she was pinky bonded to her girlfriend, and they couldn't separate. As a form of couples therapy the two had used epoxy to glue their pinky fingers together inside a copper pipe.Said Detective Patty Finch, "They haven’t been able to feel their fingers for three days."
Not clear how the two will be unattached. Pinky amputation is a possibility.
More info: The Chronicle
Posted By: Alex - Wed Nov 01, 2017 -
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Category: Prisons, Couples
Mystery Illustration 54
Who was this eminent personage?
The answer is here.
And after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 16, 2017 -
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Category: Celebrities, Couples, 1930s
Target Practice
Did she hit her target, or miss?
Grand Prairie Daily News - May 13, 1954
Posted By: Alex - Fri Mar 24, 2017 -
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Category: Marriage, 1950s, Couples
Frog Protection
It is always embarrassing when a credit card is declined, but one would imagine even more so when you are the leader of the free world. Good thing Michelle had his back. I guess he ordered the frog legs.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Oct 18, 2014 -
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Category: Retailing, Couples, Goofs and Screw-ups
Trophy Wife
Statue of Stephanie Seymour commissioned by her husband from artist Maurizio Cattelan. Not brand new news, but missed by me certainly when it happened. And art is eternal.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 01, 2014 -
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Category: Body, Celebrities, Couples, Pop Art
The Society of Disappointed Lovers
From the Lockport Daily Journal - Mar. 21, 1890. I can't find any mention of the existence of this society after 1890, so perhaps they all failed the requirement to "shun female society," and the society promptly ceased to exist.
A society of disappointed lovers has been formed at Wilmington, Del. A dozen well known young men, including a lawyer, several politicians and a merchant, met in a hotel, where the nature of the organization was explained. It is designed as a mutual consolation society, and any man to be eligible to membership must have been engaged and the engagement must have been broken by the fair one. The constitution requires every man to shun female society at all times, and a violation of the rules is punished by expulsion. The men appended their names to the constitution and related their experiences in the courting line.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Sep 04, 2013 -
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Category: Couples, Nineteenth Century
The Candy Kid and the Tiger Girl
Here you see a touching encounter between the Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid, a couple from the 1920s.
Were they:
a) Socialites who eloped?
b) Tightrope walkers?
c) Bootleggers?
d) Dancers?
e) None of the above?
Answer after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 30, 2012 -
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Category: Celebrities, Couples, 1920s
Two Disneys
From the Life photo archives.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 07, 2009 -
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Category: Celebrities, Couples, Transportation, 1940s
Underwater Wedding
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 12, 2009 -
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Category: Ceremonies, Weddings, Eccentrics, 1950s, Couples
Follies of the Mad Men #19
Those darn males! We've already seen that they need to be spritzed regularly with Poo-Pourri, and now we find out that they make three times as much mucus as women!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 31, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Domestic, Hygiene, Body Fluids, Gender, 1960s, Couples
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