Obsessions
The Dionne Quintuplets
Today, we have the "Octo-mom."
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 07, 2009 -
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Category: Babies, Body Modifications, Celebrities, Drugs, Fads, Family, Human Marvels, Obsessions, Pop Culture, Technology, 1930s
Pictures of Towels
You can find groups on the internet dedicated to just about anything. Still, this one seems to me to be scraping the bottom of the barrel:This group is for pictures of towels and writing about towels. All types of towels are welcome: bath towels, hand towels, dish towels and tea towels.
Doesn't seem to have had much activity lately. I can't imagine why not.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Dec 23, 2008 -
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Category: Obsessions
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
Random Rant
I dug this out of my files, and although it's nearly twenty years old, a good psychotic rant never goes out of style.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 05, 2008 -
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Category: Art, Eccentrics, Education, Literature, Obsessions, Scholarship, School, 1980s
Jetpack Dreams
That most silly and pointless and inutile, yet much desired of flight mechanisms, the jetpack, is back in the news. You can read a New York Times piece about the latest model here.And a review copy of this book recently arrived in my mailbox, portending lots of fun.
Yet such mechanisms pale before the magnificently insane accomplishment of Yves Rossy, who, a couple of years ago, basically turned himself into Iron Man. Watch his jet-powered flight below.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 29, 2008 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Flight, Inventions, Literature, Science Fiction, Movies, Obsessions, Pop Culture, Technology, Travel, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Micronations
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 28, 2008 -
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Category: Art, Performance Art, Customs, Foreign Customs, Eccentrics, Government, Officials, Regulations, History, Law, Military, Obsessions, Patriotism, Politics, Travel
Spit-take
This museum actually wants them.
Two simple facts. Yet what a wealth of weirdness.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 27, 2008 -
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Category: Agriculture, Customs, Eccentrics, Hygiene, Museums, Obsessions, Regionalism
Follies of the Mad Men #2
[From The Saturday Evening Post for December 16, 1967]
Whenever you put a giant woman in a skirt next to normal-sized people, the inevitable first thought engendered in the viewer is, "Can I see up her dress?" In this instance, the second thought is: "Is she going to pick up that car and use it as a marital aid?"
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 12, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Giant People in Ads, Products, Fashion, Obsessions, Fetishes, Sexuality, Cars
Put your gas masks on!
I doubt the image did much to take the terror out of gas masks, but I'm sure it made the fetish crowd happy.
Coincidentally, this very much resembles the uniform worn by the staff of Weird Universe while we work.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jul 07, 2008 -
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Category: Obsessions, Fetishes, Technology
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