Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough
PETA’s Complete List of Animal-Friendly Idioms
See all of them here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 22, 2024 -
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Category: Animals, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Languages, Euphemisms, Cant, Weasel Words, Prissy Phrases and Orwellian Language
Jailbait!
This text seems to be missing coverage of fully half of all possible juvenile delinquents. But why not see for yourself at the Internet Archive.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 11, 2024 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Teenagers, Books, 1940s
Follies of the Madmen #600
Sorry, friends--nothing spectacular for entry #600. But still a good one, I think.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 09, 2024 -
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Category: Domestic, Emotions, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Advertising, 1900s
Too Many Grandkids
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 06, 2024 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Family, 1960s
The Art of Orlan
Her Wikipedia page.Her website.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 03, 2024 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Body, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Europe
Illuminated Advertising Tower
I want to live in the alternate timeline where these towers have replaced billboards.Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 24, 2024 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Advertising, Patents, 1930s
The Savage and Sensuous Bongos
The rest of the playlist is here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 16, 2024 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, 1960s
The Bromo Seltzer Tower
The building's home page.The original tower was topped by a 51-foot revolving replica of the blue Bromo-Seltzer bottle, which was illuminated with 596 lights and could be seen 20 miles away. Due to structural concerns, the bottle was removed in 1936.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 05, 2024 -
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Category: Architecture, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Regionalism, Advertising, Twentieth Century
French Fry Injector
Why slather your fires with ketchup or cheese or mayo like a peasant, when you could laboriously inject the condiment into each individual fry?Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 19, 2024 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Inventions, Patents, Junk Food, Twenty-first Century
That’s a Lot of Lobster Rolls
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 25, 2024 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Food, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, 1920s
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