Weapons
Strange Iconography
A Scottish child and a Native-American child pour hair tonic on the head of an elderly Anglo man and massage it in, while a child soldier out of some European comic opera stands by with sword upraised in tribute.
The only sensible part of this weird iconography is the Scottish kid. Once upon a time, right up to, oh, the 1960s, "anything Scottish = cheap and economical" was standard advertising shorthand.
Original ad here, with accompanying text.
Posted By: Paul - Mon May 07, 2012 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Stereotypes and Cliches, Hair Styling, 1900s, Weapons, Hair and Hairstyling
It’s always a good idea to be armed at Christmas
via christmasyuleblog
Posted By: Alex - Sat Apr 28, 2012 -
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Category: Holidays, Advertising, Weapons
Stop That Tank!
Disney creates terrorist training films! I'm sure al-Qaeda is watching this to learn how to stymie our forces in Afghanistan.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 16, 2012 -
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Category: PSA’s, War, Armed Forces, Weapons, Cartoons, 1940s
The Bat Bomb
A few weeks ago, Paul posted about a plan the U.S. military cooked up during WWII to destroy Japan by triggering volcanic explosions. The article below describes a similarly mad plan -- the Bat Bomb. The idea was to strap incendiary devices to bats, and then drop the bats on Japanese cities.I scanned the article from the Atlantic Monthly, December 1946. I think this was one of the first public descriptions of the bat bomb.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Mar 08, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, War, Weapons
Johnson Smith Catalog Item #19
"Why, could that be Officer Clancy approaching me down this poorly lit sidewalk? Let me just whip out my pistol flashlight and-- Argh, I'm shot!"
From the 1950 catalog.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 27, 2012 -
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Category: Johnson Smith Catalog, 1950s, Weapons
Flame Glove
Here's a variation on the old buzzer-hidden-in-the-palm-of-your-hand prank. It's a flame thrower in the palm of your hand!
Posted By: Alex - Sat Feb 25, 2012 -
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Category: Inventions, Technology, Weapons
Volcano Warfare
Would unleashing volcanoes on 1944 Japan have been more merciful than using atomic bombs? I guess we'll never know.
And would today's "bunker-buster" bombs be even more capable of this mad scientist mission, in the country of some current enemy?
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 05, 2012 -
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Category: Mad Scientists, Evil Geniuses, Insane Villains, War, Weapons, 1940s, Asia
A Missile Named Mac
Nuclear Armageddon has a reassuring voice!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 20, 2012 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Armageddon and Apocalypses, Death, Cartoons, Documentaries, 1960s, Weapons
Turn your Christmas tree into a deadly slingshot
More goodness from the slingshot channel. And potentially useful since a lot of people are disposing of their Christmas trees right about now.Last year I cut up my christmas tree into slices and made coasters out of it. But this is much cooler:
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jan 09, 2012 -
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Category: Weapons
Slingshot Zombiehammer
Only for use on zombies, jah!(via the MOH forum)
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jan 05, 2012 -
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Category: Violence, Weapons
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