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Happy Humphrey, Heaviest Pro Wrestler of All Time
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 18, 2020 -
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Category: Body, Dieting and Weight Loss, Differently Abled, Handicapped, Challenged, and Otherwise Atypical, Enlargements, Miniatures, and Other Matters of Scale, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, World Records, Wrestling, Twentieth Century
Chicken Fat
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 05, 2020 -
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Category: Body, Bodybuilding, Music, 1960s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Follies of the Madmen #459
Sanitary pad endows woman with power to make flowers sprout from inanimate objects.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 31, 2019 -
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Category: Body, Genitals, Business, Advertising, Hygiene, Body Fluids, Magic and Illusions and Sleight of Hand, 1960s
The Marilyn Monroe Protractor
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 12, 2019 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Body, Technology, 1950s
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 25
"King Solomon" was the last sculpture that Alexander Archipenko made and the only one that he conceived as a monumental sculpture. Throughout his career, Archipenko experimented with positive and negative space in his sculptures, often using voids or holes to suggest form. In King Solomon, he placed abstract shapes together to create the vague shape of a figure. The tall prongs at the top evoke a crown, and the intersecting triangles suggest an imposing archaic costume. Archipenko captured a dramatic sense of scale, and it is easy to imagine how formidable this figure would be if enlarged to the sixty-foot-tall version that the artist envisioned.
Source.
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 11, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Body, Criticism and Reviews, Russia, Twentieth Century
The Obesity of Emperor Maximus
The things you learn from perusing old comics!
Source (page 19).
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 04, 2019 -
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Category: Addictions, Eating, Body, Differently Abled, Handicapped, Challenged, and Otherwise Atypical, Obesity, History, Historical Figure
Take-My-Lips Kit
Back in 1972, South Mountain Passage offered people the chance to have their lips cast in bronze for only $21.75. That seems like a pretty good deal, considering that the next year Yves Saint Laurent was going to charge $400 for the same thing.
Pittsburgh Press - Mar 16, 1973
Posted By: Alex - Sat Nov 09, 2019 -
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Category: Body, 1970s
Follies of the Madmen #447
One of the rare ads of the period that objectify the male's looks.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 10, 2019 -
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Category: Body, Business, Advertising, Fashion, 1960s, Men
Robert Wadlow Centennial
We are a bit late with this, but it's still well worth the viewing.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 25, 2019 -
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Category: Anniversary, Body, Differently Abled, Handicapped, Challenged, and Otherwise Atypical, Human Marvels
Mammary Seasonings
Still for sale, as of this posting.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 24, 2019 -
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Category: Body, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Food, 1960s
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