Vintage drug ads

Ahh, the good old days when you could buy dexedrine, opium, marihuana, cocaine, or heroin at the pharmacy.

Delightful collection of old pharmaceutical ads:
http://www.pharmacytechs.net/blog/old-school-medicine-ads

And for those especially fussy kiddies, there's Nembutol suppositories!

Celebrities Faces Upside Down

WARNING:
"Once viewed, the image cannot be erased from memory only over-written"

Definitely SFW but still assuredly highly unsettling, a photoshop contest to turn celebrity faces upside down:
http://www.freakingnews.com/Celebrities-Upside-Down-Pictures--2433.asp

Miss Thora Birch:

Breath-taking wave photography

The art of Clark Little, mostly taken from within the curl of waves, is amazing:
http://www.clarklittlephotography.com/gallery/

Atlas Obscura

A compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities, and Esoterica

Conveniently displayed with Google Earth:
http://atlasobscura.com/

(shown) image from an Indian sculpture garden in Ireland

Own your own Space Shuttle

Well, the replica nose of one anyway.
From Space Toys Inc., priced in the "if you have to ask..." range for sale or rent:
http://spacetoys.com/proddetail.php?prod=RFS13

Also available-
Mission Control cabinets
Full Scale Space Shuttle Mid Deck
Space Shuttle Exteriors

Get yours today!

Biblical Re-enactments

[From Life magazine for April 4 1949.]

Here Peggy Lee plays Salome and Dean Martin plays John the Baptist.

Bug Faces

Strange Faces Of Insects - These bloopers are hilarious

Death on the Slopes

Even Homer Simpson on skiis was not this monumentally moronic.

Tattoos, Telephones and Tabby-cats.

When Heroes actress Hayden Panettiere decided to have the Latin for "live without regrets" tattooed on her back, she was probably not expecting it to be a test of whether she actually would. Unfortunately her tattoo, which reads "vivere senza rimipianti" is misspelled, the correct phrase is "vivere senza rimpianti". Hayden is, to her credit, taking it all in her stride and told a reported from the UK's Daily Mirror "It is misspelled, whatever, vivere senza rimipiantic means live without regret in Italian. I just put my own spin to it." (Digital Spy).

Someone else who's - so far - taking misfortune in their stride are the family from Oldham in the UK who receive upwards of 60 phone calls a day from people hoping to reach the chart-topping rap artist Soulja Boy. This is down to the fact that SB's latest single, "Kiss Me Through The Phone", includes their 12 digit phone number as part of the chorus, causing many fans to try ringing out of curiosity. Given the near ubiquity of tie-in media in modern films and television programs (think of all the websites spun off from "Dr. Who" or "Lost"), this is perhaps understandable, if a little inconvenient for Gerry Matley and partner Catriona Smith. "It's easy to understand that, isn't it? When you look at me, I've got the perfect profile for a rapper," joked Matley, 54 (Guardian).

And surely if a 54 year-old Oldham man can make it as a rapper, a 1 year-old cat can be a political pundit? A woman whose cat had gone missing a few hours earlier was astonished find out that it had made an impromptu appearance on a weekly live UK political debate program. That week "Question Time" was being recorded at a community college in Newquay, close to where owner Jackie Ellery lives. She was wondering where Tango the cat had got to when he walked unnoticed into shot behind the host and his panel of MPs. "My friend phoned me to say, 'Have you seen your cat on the telly?' And there he was," said Ellery (Digital Spy).

Finally, it is with regret that I relay news of the death of the queen of the "pussy joke", Molly Sugden. Her most famous role was in the light-entertainment sitcom "Are You Being Served?" as the pompous, and frequently inept, shop assistant Mrs. Slocombe, who could not make an entrence without commenting on how the weather/busman strike/energy shortages were 'effecting' her pussy (BBC News).

BBQ/Crematorium?

This in from the land of 'I Sh!t You Not". A Georgia man has what he thinks is a great business plan in the works. He wants to open a crematorium next to his exsisting barbeque stand. All that stands in his way are a few permits and possibly good sense. Dinner anyone? http://www.explodingcigar.com/article385.html

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