Hygiene
Emergency Porta Potty
When disaster strikes, be prepared:Or take one to the big game so you never have to miss a minute of play! Available for $37 from officezone.com.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Dec 02, 2008 -
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Category: Bathrooms, Hygiene, Excrement
Follies of the Mad Men #37
We saw how the advertising industry created the concept of "B.O." for "body odor." Here, less successfully, they tried to triple the problem. Note how coyly the term "other personal odors" is used to refer to farting.
Is there any scientific proof that chlorophyll tablets do anything in the human body?
And don't you just love the look of disgust on that gal's face?
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 13, 2008 -
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Category: Body, Business, Advertising, Products, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Hygiene, Medicine, Obsessions, 1950s
Joan Avoids A Cold
As the weather becomes colder, let us all pay heed to our health, so that we may all stay well to attend the "Dutch Festival" of our choice.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 06, 2008 -
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Category: Domestic, Education, Family, Children, Parents, Hygiene, Body Fluids, Parades and Festivals, Self-help Schemes, 1940s
Color It Clean
So long as we've started a toilet thread, let's all watch "Color It Clean," so that we appreciate the men and women who maintain our public lavatories.This film reminds me of Barney Gumble's autobiographical entry in the Springfield Film Festival. I could find the clip only in Italian, but that adds a certain frisson to the viewing experience, I think.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 03, 2008 -
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Category: Bathrooms, Buildings and Other Structures, Bums, Hobos, Tramps, Beggars, Panhandlers and Other Streetpeople, Hygiene, Body Fluids, Excrement, Inebriation and Intoxicants, Television, Documentaries, 1960s
$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
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