Humor
1919 Cartoon “Hamlet”
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 04, 2019 -
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Category: Humor, Literature, Cartoons, 1910s
Lonesome and Disgusted
A song written to be deliberately awful.Amazingly, not to be found on YouTube. Listen using the embedded audio below, starting roughly at the 53:20 mark. Actually, the whole show is worth hearing.
Leo De Lyon's Wikipedia page.
Source of quote.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 24, 2019 -
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Category: Humor, Music, 1950s, Nausea, Revulsion and Disgust
I Dreamt I Saw Khrushchev (in a Pink Cadillac)
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 15, 2019 -
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Category: Humor, Music, Politics, 1960s, Russia, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
I Was a Teenage Brain Surgeon
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 03, 2019 -
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Category: Humor, Music, Surgery, Teenagers, 1950s, Brain
Superthunderstingcar
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 29, 2019 -
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Category: Evil, Humor, Parody, Inventions, Puppets and Automatons, Television, Science Fiction, 1960s
My Clam Digger Sweetheart
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 01, 2019 -
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Category: Humor, Music, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, 1940s, Love & Romance
Happy April Fool’s Day 2019
Jokes were more gruesome in 1909.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 01, 2019 -
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Category: Customs, Death, Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Holidays, Humor, 1900s
How We Do Things in Kansas
I love this genre of postcards that feature oversized common things like fish and various crops. This is one I had not seen before.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 19, 2019 -
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Category: Agriculture, Enlargements, Miniatures, and Other Matters of Scale, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Horticulture and Gardens, Humor, Regionalism, Surrealism, Twentieth Century, Postal Services
Let’s Do the Fink
Details.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 20, 2019 -
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Category: Humor, Magazines, Music, 1960s
Sick Manny’s Gym
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 13, 2018 -
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Category: Humor, Music, 1960s, Bodybuilding
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