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Best Hollywood Fake Nickname Ever

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1) Sexy innuendo.

2) Bad pun.

3) Topical.

4) Privileges career of minor starlet over thousands of dead civilians in Japan.

A triumph of the press agent's art!

Original article here.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Thu Dec 22, 2011 | Comments (7)
Category: Movies, War, Weapons, 1940's, Double Entendres and Nudge-Nudge, Wink-Wink

Johnson Smith Catalog Item #13

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The TSA's nightmare!

From the 1930s catalog.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Sun Nov 13, 2011 | Comments (3)
Category: Johnson Smith Catalog, 1930's, Weapons

NRA Kids





Posted By: Paul | Date: Fri May 13, 2011 | Comments (3)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Children, 1960's, 1950's, Weapons

H-Bomb over Bikini Atoll



You know what's weird? Atmospheric nuclear bomb tests. What were we thinking?

Other items in the newsreel your bonus window into the general, lesser weirdness of the 1950s.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Tue Feb 08, 2011 | Comments (5)
Category: 1950's, Weapons

About Fallout

Posted By: Paul | Date: Sat Feb 05, 2011 | Comments (4)
Category: PSA's, Death, Destruction, Technology, War, Weapons, 1950's

Nazi Sun Gun

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Read about the Nazi plan to build an orbital death ray.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Thu Dec 02, 2010 | Comments (3)
Category: Mad Scientists, Evil Geniuses, Insane Villains, War, Weapons, Space Travel, 1940's

Latitude Zero



This campy spectacular was long unavailable in the USA. I watched it last night and can report that it is full of prime-grade weirdness. If you have ever wanted to see Caesar Romero transplant a woman's brain into the body of a winged lion, now is your chance!

Follies of the Mad Men #83

Posted By: Paul | Date: Wed Jan 20, 2010 | Comments (1)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Horror, Injuries, War, Weapons

White Sands National Monument





Do they still let you sand-ski in the park? Or are you only allowed to look at weapons of mass destruction?

Posted By: Paul | Date: Sat Oct 03, 2009 | Comments (3)
Category: Landmarks, Monuments, Sightseeing, North America, Natural Wonders, Weapons
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