Weird Universe Blog — January 29, 2019
Sphoon_Phork
A new device, calling itself the sphoon_phork, promises to transform your iPhone into a spoon or fork, so that you can eat with it as you browse social media.It’s currently seeking funding as a kickstarter project.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jan 29, 2019 -
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Category: Inventions
Follies of the Madmen #409
The man and the women are plainly inhabitants of totally different cartoon universes, the inverse relationship of Roger and Jessica Rabbit. This rather destroys the impact of the whole ad.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 29, 2019 -
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Category: Business | Advertising | Tobacco and Smoking | Comics | 1930s
January 28, 2019
Spanish for the California farmer
First published in 1981. It included translations for phrases a farmer might need to communicate with his workers, such as, “Clean up your camp. You live like a f**king pig.”One of the authors noted: “This is a practical book. This is not a grammar book. If you want to have beautiful Spanish, you can get your grammar books and go to school. If you want to be practical in a farm case, you have to know the slang. People use the language.”
The book is available on Amazon, though listed as “Out of Print — Limited Availability.”
Wilmington Morning News - Jan 9, 1983
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jan 28, 2019 -
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Category: Languages | Books | 1980s
Swat the Jinx Girl
Continuing our series of "Strange Beauty Queens.""Rose Cade, who has also been nominated Southern California's 'Swat the Jinx' girl, dressed in model of large lemon pointing to calendar dated Friday, February 13, 1920."
Original photo here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 28, 2019 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues | Contests, Races and Other Competitions | Superstition | 1920s
January 27, 2019
Our Guys in Salisbury - The Game
Recently created by the Russian company Igroland and on sale in Moscow. Players retrace the route of Russian assassins to the nerve agent attack in Salisbury. Seems worthy of inclusion in the odd board games category. More details.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jan 27, 2019 -
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Category: Games
Your Cocoon
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 27, 2019 -
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Category: Aliens | Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues | Body Modifications | Surrealism | Science Fiction | Psychedelic
January 26, 2019
“Die British and Remain British”
The 1930's version of British remainers.
The Monroe News-Star - Oct 1, 1934
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jan 26, 2019 -
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Category: Death | 1930s
Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Film
Alas, some four years after this teaser, the film seems no nearer to completion.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 26, 2019 -
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Category: Addictions | Cops | Drugs | Psychedelic | Movies | Stop-motion Animation | Stupid Criminals | Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers | Cats | 1960s
January 25, 2019
Rail-Delay Scarf
Knitted by Claudia Weber of Germany to visually represent the delays she experienced each day, for one year, on her rail commute between Moosburg and Munich.Weber put the scarf for sale on eBay where it was bought for €7,550 by the German railway company Deutsche Bahn.
More details: euronews
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jan 25, 2019 -
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Category: Fashion | Trains and Other Vehicles on Rails
Moodles
The artist's homepage.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 25, 2019 -
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Category: Art | Surrealism
