Pink Flamingoes may soon be a thing of the past, since the company that makes them is going
out of business, but these
Skel-A-Mingos are still in stock at Amazon. They'd make a great accompaniment to the
Zombie Garden Sculpture I posted about a few weeks ago. (Thanks, John!)
[From
Fortune for December 1936. Two image files, click separately.]
Sniffles = Death.
Not the most subtle or believable of Madison Avenue appeals. Sure, in that pre-antibiotic age, pneumonia was deadly. But I can't imagine that the proportion of cold-sufferers who contracted pneumonia--at least among the affluent audience for
Fortune--was any higher then than it is today. In other words, miniscule.
I believe that in Bank Robbery 101, the student is generally taught that when a heist goes sour, one should snatch a hostage and threaten to kill he, she or it. But our boy in
this case was obviously not in class the day that lesson was taught. When cornered by police, he instead chose to take what our Illustrious Weirdo Chuck Shepherd has termed "the only way out."
Click on the image for an amusing warning.
This photo comes to me via the two-person chain of North Peterson and Michael Bishop.
Thanks, guys!
BOOMERS DEFIANTLY PROCLAIM: "WE'RE DRUG-ADDLED, MUSIC-DOMINATING, FREE-LOVE GROOVIES TILL THE GRAVE!"
"Geezers still get lucky, sez study"
"You go, granny!
"Today's 70-year-olds are having more and better sex than oldsters of the past, new research in the British Medical Journal shows. Women are especially satisfied...."
Report: Illegal drug use up for boomers
"Some moms and dads might want to take a lesson from their kids: Just say no.
"The government reported Thursday that 4.4 percent of baby boomers ages 50 to 59 indicated that they had used illicit drugs in the past month...."
Old bands never really die
"Your favorite ’90s band broke up? Fear not, they’ll be back.
"Seventies and ’80s bands, too. And if not this year, maybe next.
"This summer’s concert calendar boasts tours by reunited rockers and relics — Stone Temple Pilots (split in 2003) and New Kids on the Block (split in 1994) — and recently re-energized bands such as the B-52’s, the Black Crowes, Motley Crue and Yes. A round of reunion shows filled last summer’s slate as well, with the Police, Led Zeppelin, Genesis and Van Halen playing their time-tested hits for fans...."
I'd love to put this zombie garden sculpture in my front yard, but I know it would only be a matter of time before someone mistook it for a real body and called the cops. Available from
Design Toscano. (via
Boing Boing Gadgets)