April 2024
April 15, 2024
Multi-dimensional rotating chess
Recently patented by Craig Wallace Coulter. Patent No. 11,896,913.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 15, 2024 -
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Category: Games, Patents
Follies of the Madmen #592
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 15, 2024 -
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Category: Television, Advertising, Smoking and Tobacco, 1950s
April 14, 2024
Crying Artist
Controversy recently struck the General Theologial Seminary in New York after it invited an artist to perform in the college chapel. Details from Church Times:I know some people can cry on command, but for five hours?
The Episcopalian community thought the event sounded way too weird, forcing the seminary to cancel the performance before it happened.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Apr 14, 2024 -
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Category: Religion, Performance Art, Sadness
Tobacco Queen
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 14, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Smoking and Tobacco, 1940s
April 13, 2024
Moist Towelette Museum
Located inside Abrams Planetarium on the campus of Michigan State University. The curator of the museum is Planetarium employee John French who's been collecting towelettes since the 1990s.The crown jewel of the museum's collection seems to be the Star Trek towelettes.
Other interesting towelettes include Mammo-wipes and Xerox typewriter waterless handcleaners.
More info: Moist Towelette Museum
Posted By: Alex - Sat Apr 13, 2024 -
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Category: Museums, Baths, Showers and Other Cleansing Methods
Bushells Tea: The City of Tomorrow
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 13, 2024 -
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Category: Predictions, Yesterday’s Tomorrows, Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, 1940s, Australia
April 12, 2024
Beulah’s Tomb
Beulah Acklin of St. Petersburg, Florida died on May 15, 1948, 52 years old. Her husband, mailman Roy Acklin, built a mausoleum for her in Greenwood Cemetery. He fitted up the interior of it to look like a living room. On the wall he hung a blue neon sign with her name, "Beulah".He spent much of his time hanging out at the mausoleum, inviting the public to view it and sign their name in his guestbook, while he recited Beulah's favorite bible verses through a public-speaking system.
In 1983, Beulah's remains were reinterred in Jacksonville.
Pix magazine - Aug 9, 1952
Posted By: Alex - Fri Apr 12, 2024 -
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Category: Death, 1940s
Snakes on Guard
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 12, 2024 -
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Category: Domestic, Reptiles, Snakes, Worms and Other Slithery Things, 1960s, United Kingdom
April 11, 2024
Coin-Toss Experiment
Is a coin toss truly random? Not according to the "D-H-M model" which proposes that a tossed coin is slightly more likely to land on the same side that it started.To test this model, a team of researchers at the University of Amsterdam arranged for a group of subjects to flip coins a total of 350,757 times. Their conclusion: "the data reveal overwhelming statistical evidence for the presence of same-side bias."
What this means as a money-making strategy:
More info: "FAIR COINS TEND TO LAND ON THE SAME SIDE THEY STARTED: EVIDENCE FROM 350,757 FLIPS"
Posted By: Alex - Thu Apr 11, 2024 -
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Category: Money, Experiments
Miss Brick Throw of 1959
We've looked at the humor of DJ Rege Cordic at Radio Station KDKA in a previous post.The home page of Rege Cordic.
But here's a stunt not covered there.
He decided to stage a gag beauty contest for "Miss Brick Throw of 1959."
It was announced in 1958 in BILLBOARD.
Eventually a winner was chosen, "Miss Twerpie Walker," and a fake magazine was printed for the occasion.
Listen to three minutes of the gag here. NOTE: sound file begins to play automatically.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 11, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Humor, Pranks, Radio, Regionalism, 1950s
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