Family
Too Many Grandkids
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 06, 2024 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Family, 1960s
Power Tennis
Thank god that video games were invented, to spare us from this.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 24, 2023 -
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Category: Family, Games, Toys, 1970s
Dial Comes to Town
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 30, 2023 -
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Category: Family, PSA’s, Technology, Telephones, 1940s
The Scythe Tree
Atlas Obscura article.Roadside America article.
Local newspaper article.
James Wyman Johnson attended a Union army recruitment meeting at the Vail country schoolhouse in October 1861, about five months after the start of the Civil War. As he was mowing with his scythe the next morning, he decided to enlist. When he returned to the house, he hung his scythe in the small tree, about 8 inches in diameter and just a few feet tall, near the kitchen door. He told his parents he was going to enlist and remarked that the scythe was to stay hanging on the tree until he returned from war.... He died on May 22, 1864, from his wounds and was buried in an unknown grave.... Years passed and the handle fell away, the tree grew and gradually surrounded the blade. The long scythe blade only protruded a few inches outside the mammoth tree trunk.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 03, 2023 -
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Category: Agriculture, Death, Family, War, Fables, Myths, Urban Legends, Rumors, Water-Cooler Lore, Nineteenth Century
Unlikely Reasons for Murder No. 17
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 22, 2023 -
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Category: Death, Family, Children, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal, 1930s, Mental Health and Insanity
The Littlechaps
Read an extensive history at the link, with many scary pictures.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 22, 2023 -
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Category: Enlargements, Miniatures, and Other Matters of Scale, Family, Horror, Jobs and Occupations, Toys, Dolls and Stuffed Animals, 1960s
The Whole Damm Family
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 15, 2023 -
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Category: Family, Humor, Music, 1900s, Postal Services, Double Entendres and Nudge-Nudge, Wink-Wink
Follies of the Madmen #549
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 13, 2022 -
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Category: Family, Newspapers, Restaurants, Advertising, Comics, Junk Food, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #544
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 20, 2022 -
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Category: Domestic, Family, Children, Advertising, 1960s, Differently Abled, Handicapped, Challenged, and Otherwise Atypical
The Hypnotic Powers and/or Memory-wiping Drugs of Cool Whip
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 10, 2022 -
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Category: Family, Hypnotism, Mesmerism and Mind Control, Money, Propaganda, Thought Control and Brainwashing, Advertising, Junk Food, 1970s
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