Follies of the Madmen #596

Posted By: Paul - Tue May 21, 2024 - Comments (0)
Category: Stereotypes and Cliches, Advertising, 1960s, 1970s, Women, Perfume and Cologne and Other Scents

Thomas Snell’s Millions

Rich people are weird.

Before dipping into this story, some perspective on the value of the estate.












And as final icing on the cake.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 10, 2024 - Comments (0)
Category: Death, Money, Lawsuits, 1900s, Women

Amazons of the Year 2000

THE DAILY SENTINEL of Colorado predicts in 1950 that all the women of the year 2000 will be giants.

Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 09, 2024 - Comments (3)
Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, 1950s, Women, Twenty-first Century

People-Passing

More accurately, coed-passing. By the mid-1970s it was considered "sort of traditional" at many college football games.

What it involved: "a group of fellows sitting behind a coed suddenly picks her up and begins bouncing her — like a sack of potatoes — over their heads to the next row. And up she goes, maybe 75 rows."

So it was like crowd surfing, but entirely involuntary on the part of the coed being flung overhead. And more dangerous, I would think.

According to Wikipedia, "Iggy Pop may have invented crowd surfing at 1970's Cincinnati Summer Pop Festival." I wonder if the idea of crowd surfing spread from music festivals to football games, or if it was the other way around.

Centre Daily Times (Pennsylvania) - Sep 30, 1976

Posted By: Alex - Tue Jan 16, 2024 - Comments (0)
Category: Fads, Sports, 1970s, Women

The Association of Angry Young Women

Nov 1957: Anita Nock announced her intention to form an "Association of Angry Young Women."

Melbourne Age - Nov 26, 1957

Later reports indicated that her association didn't attract a lot of members.

Vancouver Sun - Feb 25, 1958

However, a news report from a few months later suggested that the Association did exist, in some form. The "Monaco incident" referred to involved Lady Docker tearing up a paper flag of Monaco after she learned that her son wasn't invited to attend the wedding of Prince Rainier of Monaco and Grace Kelly. Hearing about this, Prince Rainer had her banned from the entire French Riviera.

London Sunday People - May 11, 1958

Posted By: Alex - Sat Oct 28, 2023 - Comments (0)
Category: Clubs, Fraternities and Other Self-selecting Organizations, 1950s, Women

The Yak Yak Contest

Alas, I cannot learn the full roster of contestants, nor the outcome.

Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 11, 2023 - Comments (2)
Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Languages, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1950s, Women

Anna Monaro, The Illuminated Woman

Source for clipping: Redwood City Tribune (Redwood City, California) 23 Apr 1934, Mon Page 6



Read the whole tale here.

(Free membership at Medium required.)

Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 07, 2023 - Comments (0)
Category: Human Marvels, 1930s, Women, Europe

Follies of the Madmen #576

Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 22, 2023 - Comments (0)
Category: Celebrities, Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, Sports, Advertising, 1970s, Women

Ugley Women’s Institute

The Women's Institute, according to Wikipedia, is a "community-based organisation for women in the United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand." The first Women's Institute branch in the UK was established in 1915. And by the 1920s the village of Ugley in Essex had its own branch, making it the Ugley Women's Institute.

The jokes began soon after. An Apr 13, 1945 column in the Saffron Walden Weekley News notes:


By the 1950s the members of the Ugley Women's Institute had apparently grown tired of the jokes. Newspapers reported a name change:

Evansville Press - Mar 24, 1956

However, I find that the same story then kept popping up throughout the late 1950s and 1960s, always reported as if it was breaking news, which makes me wonder if it was true in the first place. In the UK Register of Charities the organization is still listed as the Ugley Women's Institute.

Wisconsin State Journal - Sep 9, 1962

Incidentally, the village of Ugley also has an Ugley Farmers Market. And the town of Loose, in Kent, boasts the Loose Women's Institute.

Posted By: Alex - Wed Jun 21, 2023 - Comments (2)
Category: Clubs, Fraternities and Other Self-selecting Organizations, Odd Names, Women

Questo/Touch Fabric from Allied Chemicals

I'd love to know exactly what this miracle fabric was made of, but can't find any description of it.

The ad reminds me of the famous Monty Python skit where a man is executed by a running pack of topless women. See beyond the jump.





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Posted By: Paul - Tue May 09, 2023 - Comments (3)
Category: Death, Fashion, Advertising, 1960s, Women