October 2017
October 21, 2017
Tombvertising
It doesn't seem that anyone ever volunteered. Or maybe the company scrapped the idea when the Outdoor Advertising Association noted that they'd first need to obtain permission from local authorities.
More info: Guardian
Posted By: Alex - Sat Oct 21, 2017 -
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Category: Advertising
The Carsony Brothers
An unjustly forgotten trio of acrobats.
Full film below.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 21, 2017 -
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Category: Human Marvels, Twentieth Century
October 20, 2017
Shadowgraph measures beauty
It's interesting that they always have the contestants stand at a slight angle. You'd think it would be easier to have them stand facing the shadowgraph, in order to standardize the measurements.
Minneapolis Star - July 25, 1939
Chicago Tribune - July 24, 1939
Bristol Daily Courier - July 27, 1939
Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 20, 2017 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, 1930s
Follies of the Madmen #331
Puppet experts are always to be trusted.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 20, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Hair Styling, 1950s, Fictional Monsters
October 19, 2017
Growing Up Skipper
In the Barbie family, Skipper is Barbie's younger sister. The 1975 version of her included the unusual feature that moving her arm caused her to experience "plastic puberty" (as one reporter put it). From wikipedia:
Appleton Post-Crescent - Dec 19, 1975
Posted By: Alex - Thu Oct 19, 2017 -
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Category: Toys
Home on Wheels
Dora Bryan was certainly somewhat homely for a famous actress, with a female assistant prettier than herself. And surely anyone who names their parakeet "Cecil Gibson" must've been a few caravans shy of a trailer park.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 19, 2017 -
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Category: Motor Vehicles, 1950s, Actors
October 18, 2017
Oyster Flatulence
I didn't even realize that oysters produced flatulence, but I guess this is now something new to worry about.More info: euractiv.com
Original study: nature.com
Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 18, 2017 -
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Category: Nature, Natural Resources
The Fish
An early forerunner of "Rock Lobster."
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 18, 2017 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Nature, 1950s
October 17, 2017
Left wife, lived in forest for 10 years
Malcolm Applegate claims that he got fed up with his wife's nagging. So he left and went into hiding in a thick woodland outside of London for ten years.Applegate has since emerged from the woodland, reconnected with his wife, and he says, "We now have a great relationship again."
It reminds me of that story of the Iranian guy who's wife left him, so he lived half-naked in a cave for 30 years.
It also supports my theory that without their wives many men would revert to a stone-age-type existence.
More info: NZ Herald
Malcolm Applegate
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 17, 2017 -
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Category: Husbands, Marriage
Follies of the Madmen #330
This wife has a problem bigger than an inconsiderate husband--he's a clinical alcoholic!
From THE ELKS MAGAZINE for November 1950.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 17, 2017 -
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Category: Addictions, Alcohol, Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Appliances, 1950s
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