Animals
Mary & Gretel
Motto: existence is short and capricious, leavened only by booze.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 16, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Games, Fantasy, Stop-motion Animation, 1910s, Alcohol
Recipes for Cooking Muskrat Meat
Check it out here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 15, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Food, Government, 1940s, Nausea, Revulsion and Disgust
Nude woman thought she was a camel
Assuming this woman was telling the truth, and she really thought she was a camel, then her case would be an example of the very rare condition known as clinical zoanthropy. That is, the belief that one has turned into an animal.We've posted about this condition before, in the case of the woman who thought she was a chicken.
Alabama Journal - Feb 27, 1976
I thought the woman might have been inspired by Joe Camel, but it turns out he was only introduced in 1987.
image source: Band of Artists
Posted By: Alex - Wed Dec 09, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Psychology, 1970s
Strange Personal Checks
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 04, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Eccentrics, Food, Money, Pranks and Revenge, 1960s
Mokapzu Park
Mokapzu Park from Art&Graft on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 10, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Armageddon and Apocalypses, Humor, Science
Rodney Fertel’s Gorilla Campaign
1969: Rodney Fertel ran for mayor of New Orleans on what he called the "primate platform". He promised that, if elected, he would "Get a gorilla for the zoo." This was his primary campaign issue. He campaigned by standing on street corners, sometimes dressed in a safari outfit, sometimes in a gorilla suit, handing out miniature plastic gorillas to passers-by.
Rodney Fertel with a baby gorilla
Fertel lost the election, receiving only 310 votes, but he kept his promise by donating a pair of West African gorillas the following year to New Orleans' Audubon Zoo, at his own expense.
Incidentally, Rodney was the former husband of Ruth Fertel, who founded Ruth's Chris Steak House. Fertel's son has written a book about his parents titled The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak: A New Orleans Family Memoir.
More info: nola.com
Posted By: Alex - Tue Nov 03, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Politics, Strange Candidates, 1960s
A Horse with No Name in Latin
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 27, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Humor, Parody, Languages, Music, 1970s
Henry the Home Run Chicken
No explanation available.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 03, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Sports, Tourists and Tourism, Natural Wonders, Twentieth Century
Where Would You Hide Two Elephants?
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 29, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Crime, Eccentrics, 1980s
Dr. Organic’s Snail Gel
The home page.
Harvested from free-roaming snails under controlled conditions, this moisturising, soothing ingredient combines the unique properties of Helix Aspersa Muller with organic Aloe vera and a blend of bioactive plant ingredients. This secretion is produced from snails that are farmed humanely and are free to roam. On their travels, they move over glass panels which are used to safely collect the mucus secretion, which is then filtered and concentrated by vacuum evaporation to reduce its water content, before a mild preservative is added to maintain its shelf life.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 23, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Cosmetics, Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, Nausea, Revulsion and Disgust
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