Weird Universe Blog — January 28, 2024

Wife asks separation from meowing husband

Holland Evening Sentinel - Apr 3, 1969

Posted By: Alex - Sun Jan 28, 2024 - Comments (0)
Category: Divorce | Cats | 1960s

Cosmohedron



Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 28, 2024 - Comments (1)
Category: Aliens | Surrealism | Cartoons

January 27, 2024

Anting

A strange behavior engaged in by birds. From wikipedia:

Anting is a maintenance behavior during which birds rub insects, usually ants, on their feathers and skin. The bird may pick up the insects in its bill and rub them on the body (active anting), or the bird may lie in an area of high density of the insects and perform dust bathing-like movements (passive anting).

Posted By: Alex - Sat Jan 27, 2024 - Comments (6)
Category: Animals | Insects and Spiders

Esquimalt Hockey Queen

For two or three years in the mid-Sixties, the little Canadian town of Esquimalt featured a Hockey Queen. I am surprised there is no national Canadian Hockey Queen.







Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 27, 2024 - Comments (0)
Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests | Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues | Sports | North America

January 26, 2024

Debbie Merritt, the half-baked girl

It looks like Debbie Merritt didn't just burn. She got absolutely fried.

When the ad says that this was a "medically supervised test," does that mean a doctor sat there and watched as she roasted herself?

Ladies' Home Journal - June 1970

Posted By: Alex - Fri Jan 26, 2024 - Comments (0)
Category: Advertising | 1970s | Skin and Skin Conditions

January 25, 2024

The Armadillo Armored Suit

Apr 1958: Inventor Harvey Freeman looked a bit like a space alien in his "armadillo" armor, as Police Inspector Beryl Pace shot at him. The Detroit police bought four of Freeman's suits, but I have no idea if they were ever used.

Freeman lived to be 100 years old, dying in 2022. You can read his obituary here.



Santa Cruz Sentinel - Apr 30, 1958



Holland Evening Sentinel - Apr 30, 1958 (click to enlarge)



Below is what appears to be an early version of Freeman's suit.

Mechanix Illustrated - Sep 1956

Posted By: Alex - Thu Jan 25, 2024 - Comments (0)
Category: Inventions | Police and Other Law Enforcement | 1950s

The Avrocar Military Flying Saucer

If only this project had succeeded, we'd all have Jetson-style flying saucers today!

Here is the Wikipedia page.

But I do think the version patented by one C. P. Lent right around the same time has a classier shape.





Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 25, 2024 - Comments (1)
Category: Flight | Military | Technology | Patents | 1950s

January 24, 2024

Saddle Cigarette Lighter

Perhaps it prevented fires caused by burning matches, but what about the fires caused by cigarette butts?

Popular Science - Apr 1936

Posted By: Alex - Wed Jan 24, 2024 - Comments (0)
Category: Inventions | Firefighting, Arson, Wildfires, Infernos and Other Conflagrations | Smoking and Tobacco | 1930s

The Midnight Parasites

Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 24, 2024 - Comments (0)
Category: Aliens | Cryptozoology | Death | Surrealism | Cartoons | 1970s

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