Weird Universe Archive

March 2013

March 7, 2013

Mothers need beer!



This ad for Blatz beer has been circulating around the internet for some time. Often people who post these vintage ads never provide a source for them, so it's hard to know if they're real or fake. But in the case of this Blatz ad, I know it's real because I found the following discussion of it in the Church School Journal, 1917. Apparently it was controversial even in the early 20th century:

The whiskey men well know the value of childhood for the formation of permanent habits. Dr. C.T. Wilson says that the advertising of the liquor people has these aims: to secure the use of liquor in homes; to encourage drinking by women; to promote drinking by children; and to put the appetite for drink into unborn children by inducing expectant mothers to drink beer. He showed to a congressional committee an advertisement which read: "How mother and baby picked up: A case of good beer in your home means much to the young mother, and obviously baby partakes in the benefits"; also an advertisement recommending whiskey for delicate undeveloped children; also the picture of a nursing bottle filled with whiskey and taken from a small boy; also a picture of sixteen different hollow toys taken from school children. These hollow toys were all filled with sweet wine or whiskey, and had been given out by drink dealers.

Posted By: Alex - Thu Mar 07, 2013 - Comments (9)
Category: Advertising, Alcohol

March 6, 2013

Hot Tortoise Love

Henry and Alice, a pair of pet tortoises, got little too rowdy with their loving and knocked over a heater setting fire to their owner's garage. Despite the pet owner's best efforts to save them, sadly, the amorous pair died in the fire. An all consuming love.

Posted By: Alex - Wed Mar 06, 2013 - Comments (4)
Category: Animals

Double-Top Jeans

It's the new fashion creation from singer Rihanna. I guess the idea is that it creates a layered look for pants. Only $150 at River Island, though they seem to be sold out at the moment.

Posted By: Alex - Wed Mar 06, 2013 - Comments (6)
Category: Fashion, Denim

I Wish That

Stereolove - I Wish That from Oh Yeah Wow on Vimeo.

Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 06, 2013 - Comments (3)
Category: Government, Music, Pop Art, Surrealism

March 5, 2013

Mystery Gadget 16

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What can this woman be making that leaves her so joyous?

The answer is here.

Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 05, 2013 - Comments (7)
Category: Technology, 1940s

Fine dining in a lavatory

London's Attendant Cafe, which opened last month, has a concept that it hopes will attract the curious. It's situated in a former public lavatory, and instead of trying to play that down, it's playing it up. So none of the old toilet fixtures have been removed. Instead, countertops were installed around them. Patrons can munch on "super gourmet sandwiches, salads, coffee and cakes" while perched in front of a urinal.

The challenge for the restaurant will be to overcome what psychologists call the law of contagion. "Once in contact, always in contact." That is, once an object is associated with something offensive, such as a urinal being associated with urine, it will always maintain that association in our minds, no matter how clean the urinal is. [nydailynews]

Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 05, 2013 - Comments (7)
Category: Food, Hygiene, Body Fluids, Restaurants

March 4, 2013

Holy Assisted Arrest Batman!!

Start singing that Batman theme song!! Da, da, da, da, da, da,da, da...

Even though Batman has been in better shape, that's no reason he can't continue his crime-fighting ways in jolly old England!! BAM!! POW!!



Take the bad guy to the jail, and justice will eventually prevail.

After you explain the costume, that is.

Authorities still don't know who Batman is -- any guesses? (besides Bruce Wayne)

Posted By: gdanea - Mon Mar 04, 2013 - Comments (4)
Category: Stupid Criminals

Stone Pie

Here's something to add to Paul's Original Rock Dinner posted last week. It's a stone shaped like a piece of chocolate pie, found by Dr. Charles M. Sheldon of Kansas, sometime circa 1940. The picture comes from The Rotarian (Apr 1944).

Posted By: Alex - Mon Mar 04, 2013 - Comments (2)
Category: Food, 1940s

Chicken Plucker



A new height in boredom--until the actual killing begins.

Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 04, 2013 - Comments (6)
Category: Animals, Boredom, Death, Food, Industry, Factories and Manufacturing, Rube Goldberg Devices

March 3, 2013

Madame X



From the review in VARIETY:

Fabulous is the only word to describe "Madame X," a candy-colored, fast-paced tale of a pre-op transsexual superhero from Indonesia who fights intolerance.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 03, 2013 - Comments (3)
Category: Movies, Superheroes, Gender-bending, Asia

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