Weird Universe Archive

November 2018

November 6, 2018

How to Take Apart a Volkswagen Beetle

Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 06, 2018 - Comments (2)
Category: Business, Advertising, Twentieth Century, Cars

November 5, 2018

Nutrimato

According to wikipedia:

a drink made primarily of reconstituted tomato juice concentrate and seasoned beef broth, with added vitamins and iron. Nutrimato was produced beginning in 1972 by the Duffy-Mott company in California and discontinued in 1975.

Nutrimato would have been a good name for a robot. Not so much for a juice drink.

Green Bay Press Gazette - Nov 8, 1972

Posted By: Alex - Mon Nov 05, 2018 - Comments (3)
Category: Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, Vegetables, 1970s

Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 17



Sjöguden (The sea god) by Carl Milles.

Wikipedia page for the artist.

Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 05, 2018 - Comments (3)
Category: Art, 1930s, Europe, Russia

November 4, 2018

The Ground Breathes

What on earth is going on here?



The explanation, via IFLScience:

The phenomenon is actually quite mundane. The footage, which reportedly comes from a forest in Sacre-Coeur, Quebec, is just showing us what happens when strong winds meet soil that’s been loosened by a storm.
“During a rain and windstorm event the ground becomes saturated, 'loosening' the soil's cohesion with the roots as the wind is blowing on a tree's crown," certified arborist Mark Vanderwouw told The Weather Network.
"The wind is trying to 'push' the trees over, and as the force is transferred to the roots, the ground begins to 'heave'. If the winds were strong enough and lasted long enough more roots would start to break and eventually some of the trees would topple.”

Posted By: Alex - Sun Nov 04, 2018 - Comments (1)
Category: Nature, Natural Wonders, Weather

November 3, 2018

Strange Beauty Queens

This blog has a fine post with many fotos on our theme of oddball beauty contests.

Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 03, 2018 - Comments (3)
Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Twentieth Century

Hair Painting

Artist Jarrett Key paints with his hair. When I first saw the story about him in the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, I thought that must mean he had cut some of his hair off and made a brush out of it. But no. He uses his hair as a brush while it's still attached to his head.

Key says his inspiration came from his dead grandmother who appeared to him in a dream and said, "Your hair is your strength. Paint with your hair."





Key probably doesn't realize this, but he was actually anticipated in this technique by comedian Pat Paulsen who, back in 1966, before he became famous on the The Smothers Brothers' show, made headlines by claiming to be an artist who used his head as a paintbrush. Paulsen called it 'Cranial Painting.'

Arizona Republic - Mar 6, 1966

Posted By: Alex - Sat Nov 03, 2018 - Comments (2)
Category: Art, Hair and Hairstyling

Follies of the Madmen #393

Our soft drink is equivalent to a life-endangering catastrophic event.





Source of B&W ad here (scroll right).

Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 03, 2018 - Comments (1)
Category: Business, Advertising, Disasters, Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, 1960s, Weather

November 2, 2018

Name That List, #50

What is this a list of? The answer is below in extended.

  • The rare mineral cuprorivaite
  • Weathered copper-carbonate azurite
  • Blood from the wounds of dragons locked in mortal combat with elephants
  • Resin secreted from trees growing on the islands of Socotra and Sumatra
  • Murex shell from the Eastern Mediterranean
  • The rendered bodies of Egyptian mummies
  • Scale insects that swarm on prickly-pear cacti
  • Unripe buckthorn berries
  • The urine of cattle who have eaten mango leaves





More in extended >>

Posted By: Alex - Fri Nov 02, 2018 - Comments (5)
Category: Name That List

Abolish Women’s Fashions

The novelist W. L. George, deemed a feminist, wanted to abolish fashion and prescribe a universal uniform for all women, to save effort and money.





Source.

Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 02, 2018 - Comments (1)
Category: Fashion, Literature, 1920s, Women

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