Holidays
Happy Halloween 2024!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 31, 2024 -
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Category: Body, Head, Holidays, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal
The Halloween Costumes of Ken Tanabe
It's not too soon to begin preparing your homemade Halloween costume!See many more at the link.
since 2003, designer ken tanabe has been creating his own unique halloween costumes using inexpensive materials and his own body. flying in the face of conventional, store-bought outfits, which typically focus on pop culture icons or ghastly ghouls, the designer decided to unleash his imagination to create a series of eye-catching costumes.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 05, 2024 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Hobbies and DIY, Holidays
Miss National Hot Dog Month Association
Happy Fourth of July!
Richmond News Leader - July 15, 1958
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jul 04, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Holidays, Junk Food
Happy Fourth of July 2024!
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Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 04, 2024 -
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Category: Holidays, Horror
Stocking-Repairing Beetle
The "Aprilscherz" (April Fool) of an unnamed German magazine, as reported in Life (Apr 4, 1938):
Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 01, 2024 -
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Category: Holidays, Insects and Spiders, 1930s
Happy Easter 2024!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 31, 2024 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Holidays, Twentieth Century
Weird Easter Hats
The strange hats appear about halfway thru.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 15, 2024 -
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Category: Holidays, Easter, Headgear, 1950s, United Kingdom
April Fool’s Day Prank Millionaire
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 03, 2024 -
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Category: Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Holidays, Money, Friends, Partners, Co-Workers and Other Associates, 1930s
Easter Lifting and Heaving
Easter is early this year: March 31st. So you'd better bone up quick on the old practice of lifting strangers up in chairs.According to Hone, the practice was common in Lancashire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and other parts of England. Groups of people would gather together in the street and physically lift those they came across into the air, expecting a financial reward in return. Hone describes the practice as differing slightly in different parts of the country:
In some parts the person is laid horizontally, in others placed in a sitting position on the bearers’ hands. Usually, when the lifting or heaving is within doors, a chair is produced, but in all cases the ceremony is incomplete without three distinct elevations. (SCM 03706, p. 426)
In Warwickshire, Easter Monday and Easter Tuesday were known as ‘heaving-day‘, because on the Monday it was the tradition for men to ‘heave and kiss the women’ and on the Tuesday for the women to do the same to the men. Hone viewed the practice as, ‘an absurd performance of the resurrection’ derived from the Catholic church.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 06, 2024 -
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Category: Furniture, Holidays, Easter, Regionalism, Foreign Customs, United Kingdom
Follies of the Madmen #585
How to sell that newfangled gadget, the television? If you're RCA, you just make a special Xmas song!The singer's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 08, 2024 -
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Category: Holidays, Music, Television, Deceit, Trickery, Subterfuge and General Slyness, Advertising
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