Honk-O-Bag

Please nominate a celebrity from 2014 that you would like to see modeled in punching-bag format.

Original ad here. (Page 13)

Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 05, 2014 - Comments (8)
Category: Celebrities, Toys, Violence, 1950s

Grape Nuts Flakes Promotes Fisticuffs

Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 19, 2013 - Comments (9)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Regionalism, Violence, 1950s

Giant Slingshots

Slingshots taken from young vandals, May 1952. If the police hadn't stopped them, the kids probably would have been building full-sized trebuchets next.

Posted By: Alex - Wed Mar 27, 2013 - Comments (9)
Category: Violence, 1950s, Weapons

The Uprising of the Cows

We've been warning about the threat posed by cows for quite a while here on WU (see here, here, and here), and recent news confirms the danger they pose. A 68-year-old woman was walking her dog in a field in rural England, when she was attacked and trampled by cows. Her dog survived. And just a few months ago, a 46-year-old hiker in England was similarly attacked and trampled by cows. Has the uprising of the cows begun? [ibtimes.co.uk]

The linked article includes some tips on what to do should you find yourself facing a field of potentially hostile cows:

• avoid entering the field
• let go of your dog if the cows charge
• don't try to outrun the cows
• run downhill if possible
• make yourself as loud and big as possible

Posted By: Alex - Mon Oct 15, 2012 - Comments (20)
Category: Violence, Cows

The Violent Noah’s Ark Boys

Allan Holtz calls himself "the stripper". (He's a comic-strip historian.) On his blog, he recently directed his readers' attention to the Noah's Ark Boys — an odd series drawn by Ben McCutcheon that briefly ran in the Chicago Sunday Tribune back in 1911.

Holtz explains that the Noah's Ark Boys strip was inspired by the Noah's Ark figurines that were (and still are) the toys of choice in many religious homes. Children were supposed to learn wholesome Biblical values by playing with these toys. But McCutcheon evidently learned a slightly darker lesson, because every week his strip concluded with the Boys on the receiving end of some kind of horrific violence: burnt, blown apart, frozen, crushed, etc. Although the Bible is pretty violent, when it comes down to it. So maybe he did get the right message.

Click the images to enlarge.

Posted By: Alex - Mon Sep 17, 2012 - Comments (6)
Category: Religion, Violence, Comics

Follies of the Mad Men #186

Before The Muppets came--sadistic, coffee-touting puppets?

Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 26, 2012 - Comments (6)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Violence, 1960s

How many people will run over a turtle?

Mark Rober, who apparently works at NASA, has posted an interesting video about what he calls his "roadkill experiment." It explores how many people will swerve into the shoulder lane to deliberately run over an animal, such as a turtle, snake, or tarantula. No real animals were harmed. He used rubber ones.

The results: Most people ignored the animals, but one person swerved to hit the turtle, and slightly more swerved to hit the snake and spider. What does this tell us about human nature? Perhaps that most people are basically decent, but there are definitely a few psychos out there. (via Gizmodo)

Posted By: Alex - Sat Jul 21, 2012 - Comments (11)
Category: Animals, Evil, Violence

Guess Who These Guys Are

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Posted By: Alex - Tue Feb 28, 2012 - Comments (4)
Category: Riots, Protests and Civil Disobedience, Synchronicity, Violence, Armed Forces

Slingshot Zombiehammer

Only for use on zombies, jah!


(via the MOH forum)

Posted By: Alex - Thu Jan 05, 2012 - Comments (6)
Category: Violence, Weapons

Cinema’s Greatest Slaps

Glove, Actually - An Ode to Cinema's Greatest Slaps from Jeff Smith on Vimeo.

Caution: lots of swears.

Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 10, 2011 - Comments (2)
Category: Movies, Violence