Education
Going Steady
Any WU readers confused about "going steady" will certainly benefit from watching this video.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 29, 2008 -
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Category: Education, Family, Movies, Documentaries, Sexuality, 1950s
Weird Korean Posters
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 28, 2008 -
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Category: Education, Computers, Internet, Foreign Customs, Asia
Live and Let Live
Continuing our series of weird auto-safety films, we now examine one told completely through the medium of toys. This looks like it was a lot of fun for the creators to make.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 23, 2008 -
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Category: Death, Education, Toys, Documentaries, 1940s, Cars
Understanding Your Ideals
Let us all learn from Jeff's struggle the true meaning of popularity and hewing to our ideals. And just remember: "Grandma's going to be aaall RIGHT!"
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 22, 2008 -
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Category: Education, Family, Children, Parents, Philosophy, Ethics and Morals, Transportation, 1950s
Joan Avoids A Cold
As the weather becomes colder, let us all pay heed to our health, so that we may all stay well to attend the "Dutch Festival" of our choice.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 06, 2008 -
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Category: Domestic, Education, Family, Children, Parents, Hygiene, Body Fluids, Parades and Festivals, Self-help Schemes, 1940s
TeacherTube
How could I have been ignorant prior to now of the glories of TeacherTube, which hosts such stimulating videos as this one?The fun never stops!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 20, 2008 -
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Category: Boredom, Education, Video
Why Study Science?
Has science ever looked duller than in this video?
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 19, 2008 -
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Category: Boredom, Education, Family, Children, Parents, Futurism, Pop Culture, Science, Technology, Video, 1950s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Marvin Hewitt, Imposter
I ran across a fifty-year-old case recently in Life magazine from April 12, 1954. The perp was one Marvin Hewitt, and he managed to masquerade as a college-level physics professor, among other positions!
You can read most of the article here. The ending, unfortunately, was missing from my issue of the zine.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 15, 2008 -
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Category: Celebrities, Crime, Education, Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Magazines, 1950s
Great Yearbook Photos
I don't know that this photo ever actually appeared in a yearbook, but it's circulated all around the web with this caption. It could be an engagement photo, but it's more fun to imagine it in a yearbook. [Accordion Guy]
The 2005 Boynton Beach High Yearbook included this shot of Robert Richards being held on a leash by his girlfriend, Melissa Finley. The fact that he's black and she's white didn't sit well with some people, including Richards' mother, who demanded that all copies of the yearbook be recalled. [Palm Beach Post]
Patrick Agin wanted this photo in his Portsmouth High School yearbook, but the school refused, citing its zero-tolerance weapons policy. Critics of the decision noted that the school mascot was a Revolutionary War soldier carrying a rifle. [NY Times]
11-year-old Asheana Maiheapt was sick the day class photos were taken, so the school used a picture of her taken by a school photographer. But Asheana's mother hated the photo, arguing that her daughter looked too pale in it and wasn't even smiling. She demanded the school recall all copies of the yearbook. She must have felt much better when the New York Post plastered the photo on its front page. [ABC News]
Posted By: Alex - Mon Aug 18, 2008 -
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Category: Education, Photography and Photographers
The Matrix on Broadway
Keanu Reeves is slated to recreate his epic role as cyber-savior Neo in the all-dancing, all-singing Broadway production of The Matrix. Directed by Julie Taymor, choreography by Kristi Yamaguchi, music by Brian Eno.
Not buying that explanation for this photo? You skeptic! Well, in that case, find out who the sunglass-wearing, cassocked dancer is here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 16, 2008 -
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Category: Art, Surrealism, Education, Entertainment, Dance, Religion, Theater and Stage
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