Holidays
Burnin’ Vernon, the Easter Bunny hater
April 19, 1981: Fundamentalist minister Vernon Cayten burned a 5-foot stuffed Easter bunny on the front lawn of his church, declaring it was a pagan idol. He also denounced all those who celebrated Easter with Easter Bunnies as "heathens and dummies who worshiped pagan gods."Musician Scott Ryan has since written a song about "Burnin' Vernon." Video below. Lyrics here.
Des Moines Register - Apr 21, 1981
Posted By: Alex - Sun Apr 01, 2018 -
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Category: Holidays, Easter, Religion
Happy Easter 2018!
Can you picture the size of the Easter Bunny that laid that egg?
Have a happy holiday!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 01, 2018 -
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Category: Animals, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Holidays, Easter
Love Carefully Day
Back in 1976, the Zero Population Growth society launched an effort to get Valentine's Day rebranded as "Love Carefully Day," as a way to bring awareness to the problem of teen pregnancy."Happy Love Carefully Day" doesn't have quite the same ring to it as "Happy Valentine's Day," but their effort must have been somewhat successful, because Google reveals that even this year a few places, such as Allan Hancock College, will hold Love Carefully Day events.
Lincoln Journal Star - Feb 13, 1976
Tampa Tribune - Feb 13, 1976
Posted By: Alex - Wed Feb 14, 2018 -
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Category: Holidays
Merry Christmas 2017!
Santa phones Alfred E. Newman?Hope you all have a swell day!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 25, 2017 -
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Category: Holidays
1960s Christmas Hairdos
Munich 1964
Detroit Free Press - Dec 7, 1964
Pittsburgh Press - Dec 20, 1966
St. Cloud Times - Dec 12, 1964
Decatur Herald - Dec 24, 1966
Posted By: Alex - Fri Dec 22, 2017 -
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Category: Holidays, 1960s, Hair and Hairstyling
Santa Was Exhausted
One can only begin to imagine...
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 15, 2017 -
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Category: Emotions, Holidays, 1960s
Over-Yodeled
1993: A German court ordered that a couple deserved a partial refund of the cost of their two-week Caribbean cruise, since the cruise company hadn't warned them beforehand that 500 of the 600 passengers on the cruise would be Swiss yodelers, who would be practicing their yodels constantly.
Wilmington News Journal - Jan 13, 1993
Posted By: Alex - Sat Dec 09, 2017 -
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Category: Holidays, Music, 1990s
Happy Thanksgiving 2017!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 23, 2017 -
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Category: Food, Holidays, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art
Punky Punkin
WU's contribution to the seasonal craze for all things pumpkin.
He's the happiest pumpkin--despite having his guts ripped out of him and doomed to rot more swiftly than his brothers in the field.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 11, 2017 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Death, Holidays, 1950s
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