Holidays
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
Happy New Year, 2017!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 01, 2017 -
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Category: Holidays, Weird Universe, Alex, Chuck, Paul
A Cosmic Christmas
Hideous aliens learn and reveal the true meaning of the holiday.
Hope all WU-vies experience the same!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 25, 2016 -
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Category: Aliens, Holidays, Television
Hypnotist Seeks Humane Turkey Death
November 1956: Hypnotist Arthur Ellen urged President Eisenhower to put his Thanksgiving turkey in a trance before executing it, promising him that a hypnotized turkey "tastes better due to the absence of adrenalin in the bloodstream and plucks easier because the muscles holding the feathers are relaxed."
Port Angeles Evening News - Nov 19, 1956
It's not recorded whether Eisenhower took the advice of the hypnotist. However, Wikipedia notes that, "The Eisenhower Presidential Library says documents in their collection reveal that President Dwight Eisenhower ate the birds presented to him during his two terms."
The tradition of Presidential turkey pardons only officially began with Reagan, although both Kennedy and Nixon spared some birds.
Below: Eisenhower in 1954 feeds a cranberry to a soon-to-be-eaten Thanksgiving turkey.
Image source: White House Historical Association
Posted By: Alex - Thu Nov 24, 2016 -
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Category: Holidays, Thanksgiving, Hypnotism, Mesmerism and Mind Control, 1950s
Happy Thanksgiving 2016!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 24, 2016 -
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Category: Crime, Food, Holidays
Land of the Heads
Land of the Heads, Claude Barras & Cédric Louis, National Film Board of Canada
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 31, 2016 -
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Category: Holidays, Horror, Blood, Head, Fictional Monsters
Go Topless Day: August 28, 2016
Needless to say, bare chestal areas of XX-chromosome carriers in video and at homepage.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 28, 2016 -
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Category: Body, Censorship, Bluenoses, Taboos, Prohibitions and Other Cultural No-No’s, Holidays, Parades and Festivals
Skydiver lands on grandmother at 4th of July party
It's like the Fourth of July version of "Grandma got run over by a reindeer."Lilienthal said the sky diver kicked her in the head, tangled her in parachute lines and dragged her across a field as her family watched, horrified.
Ukiah Daily Journal - Aug 14, 1992
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jul 04, 2016 -
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Category: Accidents, Holidays, 1990s
Follies of the Madmen #284
Reminding me of that old proverb, "If billfolds were neckties, publicists would be geniuses."
Scanned from Good Housekeeping for December 1953.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 09, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, Holidays, Surrealism, 1950s
Graves open on Memorial Day
Source: From an "unidentified Kansas Newspaper." Reprinted in National Lampoon's True Facts: The Big Book (1995).
Posted By: Alex - Mon May 30, 2016 -
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Category: Holidays
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