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Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 58
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 14, 2024 -
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Category: Art, Retail Establishments, 1920s
A Case for Beer
The 60s: when the menace of beer was apparently worse than heroin.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 09, 2014 -
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Category: PSA’s, Retail Establishments, 1960s, Alcohol
A Little Light Weirdness – 7
Mind you, Mr. Brown is not the only statesman trying to avert a bleak future this week, an unnamed Arab ambassador got the shock of his life when he finally lifted his new bride’s niqab, only to find she had cross-eyes and a beard. The groom immediately went to court to have the marriage annulled, claiming he had been tricked into the marriage and that the bride’s parents had used pictures of her attractive older sister to deceive him. The court found for the groom and dissolved the marriage, but turned down his demand for $150000 compensation (Daily Mail).
But perhaps he’s been a bit quick to judge by appearances. Two Chinese men certainly were when the found a hoard of 20 clay artefacts in an old tomb they discovered in a field near their home, only to later sell the whole lot to a collector for less than $2000. Unfortunately for the pair, theirs were rare finds from the Sui-Tang Dynasty, making the collection over 1000 years old. One item alone, a pottery figurine, recently reached $150,000 at auction (Daily Times).
More fortunate was Wendy Jones of Aberglasney in Wales, who took the old plate she’d had perched on her sideboard for years – except on those odd occasions it had fallen off it - to a TV antiques show, in a plastic carrier bag, only to be told it was part of a rare, Prussian royal service worth over £100000 (Telegraph).
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Posted By: Dumbfounded - Wed Feb 10, 2010 -
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Category: Boats, Cops, Crime, Stupid Criminals, Food, Government, Officials, History, Obscenity, Pirates, Politics, Retail Establishments, Theater and Stage, Facial Hair, Goofs and Screw-ups
Nice Jewish Guys
If you still need a calendar for 2009, consider the Nice Jewish Guys calendar, featuring twelve months of really nice guys.There doesn't seem to be a companion Nice Jewish Girls calendar. The closest I could find was a calendar of Jewish girls published by Heeb Magazine for the Jewish year 5769. But it features the kind of girls that most nice Jewish guys don't have a prayer of ending up with.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Feb 19, 2009 -
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Category: Retail Establishments
The Front Line
As we all prepare for our imminent minimum-wage jobs during the economic meltdown, let us study how to perform them to the best of our abilities, with a cheerful smile. Consider the job of "supermarket checker," circa 1965.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 02, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Products, Food, Jobs and Occupations, Movies, Documentaries, Retail Establishments, 1960s
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