Hygiene
$500 Toilet Seat
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 03, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Products, Hygiene, Body Fluids, Excrement, Inventions, Foreign Customs
Placenta Facials
CNN reports on some alternative beauty treatments including:A human placenta facial treatment. The beautician who specializes in these notes that people don't get them "because it's hip" but rather because they're concerned about their skin. It certainly isn't hip. It's placenta.
Dehydrated nightingale poop facials. Aesthetician Lula Pacheco reports that at first people are hesitant about the bird poop, but "when it's done they just love how their skin feels and looks."
Other treatments include a "Fanny Facial," a breast message, and an aura lift.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 03, 2008 -
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Category: Hygiene, Medicine
As Boys Grow
Let it never be said that WEIRD UNIVERSE is unbalanced or sexist. Here's a companion piece to MOLLY GROWS UP.Doesn't the coach sound just like Troy McClure on THE SIMPSONS?
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 27, 2008 -
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Category: Body Modifications, Facial Hair, Domestic, Family, Children, Parents, Hygiene, Body Fluids, Sexuality, Documentaries, 1950s, Men
Molly Grows Up
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 26, 2008 -
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Category: Babies, Body Modifications, Domestic, Family, Children, Parents, Hygiene, Body Fluids, Sexuality, Video, 1950s, Women
Smelly Washer
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 23, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Products, Domestic, Hygiene, Inventions, Money
The Armhole Odor Test
You may not have heard of Odo-Ro-No, but you've heard of the word it coined -- "B.O." It began using the term in 1919 in its ads for women's deodorant. Women were warned that if they had "B.O." they might never get a man.Later Odo-Ro-No introduced the wonderfully off-putting concept of the "Armhole Odor Test" in its ads. This was the test:
I've never seen Odo-Ro-No in a store, but apparently Walgreens still sells it.
Links: Who invented body odor?
Posted By: Alex - Sun Sep 14, 2008 -
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Category: Hygiene, Advertising
Civilizing Pears Soap
During the nineteenth century Pears Soap managed to brand itself as the quintessentially British product. Part of what this meant, of course, was bringing "civilization" to all non-white people. Thus, these rather bizarre ads that appeared in British papers.
This ad refers to an actual event. The British soldiers who invaded Sudan wrote the phrase "PEARS SOAP IS THE BEST" on a rock to mark the point of their furthest advance into the country. The ad fantasizes about how the "Dervishes of the Desert" must have reacted when they stumbled upon this piece of imperial graffiti.
This ad is captioned, "The Birth of Civilization -- A message from the sea." The message presumably is: the British are about to invade your country!
Posted By: Alex - Tue Sep 09, 2008 -
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Category: Hygiene, Advertising
Follies of the Mad Men #19
Those darn males! We've already seen that they need to be spritzed regularly with Poo-Pourri, and now we find out that they make three times as much mucus as women!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 31, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Domestic, Hygiene, Body Fluids, Gender, 1960s, Couples
The Birds
But now, encountering fresh news about a horde of filthy egrets, I realize that everything Alfred Hitchcock tried to warn us about is coming true!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 23, 2008 -
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Category: Animals, Hygiene, Excrement, Movies, War
Poo-Pourri
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 20, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Products, Domestic, Hygiene, Excrement, Inventions, Scatology
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