Nature
The Atmos Clock
If only you had invested in an Atmos Clock in 1982, the date of the B&W ad, you could have saved a bundle!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 08, 2017 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Nature, Technology, 1980s
Oyster Flatulence
I didn't even realize that oysters produced flatulence, but I guess this is now something new to worry about.More info: euractiv.com
Original study: nature.com
Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 18, 2017 -
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Category: Nature, Natural Resources
The Fish
An early forerunner of "Rock Lobster."
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 18, 2017 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Nature, 1950s
A Kookie Little Paradise
Since when did Tarzan inhabit the jungles of the Caribbean?
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 21, 2017 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Music, Nature, 1960s
Tales of Justine: “Albert, A Pet Sunflower”
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 16, 2017 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Nature, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Psychedelic, 1960s
The Beachcombers
The longest-running English-language show on Canadian TV looks just awful. How could it be otherwise, with this premise, as detailed in their Wikipedia entry.
The Beachcombers followed the life of Nick Adonidas (Bruno Gerussi), a Greek-Canadian log salvager in British Columbia who earned a living travelling the coastline northwest of Vancouver with his partner Jesse Jim (Pat John) aboard their logging tug Persephone tracking down logs that had broken away from barges and logging booms. Their chief business competitor is Relic (Robert Clothier) (whose actual name is Stafford T. Phillips), a somewhat unsavoury person who will occasionally go to great lengths to steal business (and logs) away from Nick. The series also focused on a supporting cast of characters in Nick's hometown of Gibsons, often centering on a café, Molly's Reach, run by Molly (Rae Brown), a mother figure to virtually all the characters in the series (including Relic). Molly had two grandchildren living with her, Hughie (Bob Park) and his younger sister Margaret played by Nancy Chapple in the first season then by Juliet Randall from the second season onward.
There are some full episodes on YouTube if anyone is brave enough to watch. Maybe a Canadian WU-vie will fill us in!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 06, 2017 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Nature, Natural Resources, 1970s
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 5
"Lazy, nihilist capitalist tulip cannot stand up straight and proud like honest, hardworking Soviet tulip!"
André Kertész,"Melancholic Tulip," 1939
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 16, 2017 -
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Category: Art, Nature, 1930s, Russia
Follies of the Madmen #309
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 31, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, Nature, 1970s
Atomic Seeds
From the American Legion magazine for May 1962.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 31, 2017 -
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Category: Nature, Technology, 1960s
The Frozen Woman
Original article here.
Alas, two years after the coverage above, she was gone.
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 17, 2016 -
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Category: Body, Human Marvels, Medicine, Nature, 1950s, Alcohol
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