Screams, Grunts and Other Exclamations
Mystery Girl of 1947
Pulp International reveals:The Mystery Writers of America, which was founded in 1945 in New York City and soon expanded to other locations, in its early years used to throw what they called a Clues Party. In November 1947 the party was in Chicago, and the MWA awarded the title of Mystery Girl to the woman who performed best in a scream test—as opposed to screen test. Four contestants—Marybeth Prebis, Betty Rosboro, Bobby Jo Rodgers, and Portia Kubin—let fly with their most bloodcurdling screams, and the winner was Kubin, above.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 23, 2023 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Literature, Books, 1940s, Screams, Grunts and Other Exclamations
The Annals of State-Sponsored Corporal Punishment
Kids these days--so unreasonable!
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 09, 2017 -
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Category: Body, Screams, Grunts and Other Exclamations, Education, 1970s
Showgirls With Hiccups
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 12, 2017 -
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Category: Health, 1960s, Screams, Grunts and Other Exclamations
Ted V. Mikels, RIP
Obituary here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 19, 2016 -
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Category: Death, Eccentrics, Horror, Movies, 1960s, Blood, Dismemberment, Screams, Grunts and Other Exclamations
Wedding foiled by scream
About a year ago I posted about a wedding at which the bridegroom dropped dead of a heart attack right after saying "I do." I thought that had to qualify as one of the worst weddings ever, but this one is pretty bad also. As reported in the Chicago Tribune - Sep 21, 1907.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Sep 06, 2014 -
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Category: Marriage, 1900s, Screams, Grunts and Other Exclamations, Weddings
England’s Annual Shin-kicking Competition
The Wikipedia explanation.
The 2013 contest happens this weekend.
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 30, 2013 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Sports, Europe, Feet, Pain, Self-inflicted and Otherwise, Screams, Grunts and Other Exclamations
Constipation Blues
Posted By: Paul - Tue May 29, 2012 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Jabberwocky, Scat Singing, Nonsense Verse and Glossolalia, Music, Excrement, 1960s, Screams, Grunts and Other Exclamations
The Whispering Community
Is the internet too noisy for you? Then perhaps you might want to join the web's whispering community. They post videos (or audiotracks) of themselves whispering. Here's an example:I first encountered the whisper community a while back when I did a search on youtube for "Elephants on Acid" (title of one of my books) and came across videos of people whispering stories from the book. Here 'WhisperHub' whispers 'The Tickle Experiment'.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 18, 2012 -
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Category: Subcultures, Screams, Grunts and Other Exclamations
Spit On Me, Dickie!
Dickie Rock (born 1936) was an Irish singer whose career peaked in 1966 when he sang for Ireland in the Eurovision song contest. Wikipedia only has a brief article about him. However, the article includes this intriguing nugget of weirdness:
This raises the issue of spit fetishes. Dr. Mark Griffiths offers these observations about spit fetishes on his blog:
much of the online literature on spitting fetishes (as opposed to saliva fetishes) appears to be rooted in BDSM and is usually referred to as 'spitting domination'. The dominant partner may spit into their submissive partner's face and/or mouth. The submissive partner may also be forced to swallow the liquid spit if their mouth is spat into. Many of the online articles about spitting fetishes see parallels between the act of spitting and the act of ejaculation – particularly in relation to 'facials' (i.e., the act of men ejaculating onto someone's face) and the practice of bukkake (i.e., the act of many men simultaneously ejaculating onto someone's face and/or body)...
Compared to all other paraphilic and fetishistic behaviours concerning sexual arousal to human bodily fluids, there is significantly less written about saliva and spitting fetishes. Whether academic and/or clinical research is needed is – at present – debatable.
So based on what Dr. Griffiths says, perhaps the desire of young women for Dickie to spit on them was related to their desire for him to ejaculate on them. It would make sense. Especially with a name like Dickie!
Update: The original video I posted got pulled from youtube, so here's another one -- a documentary about Dickie Rock:
Posted By: Alex - Tue Feb 07, 2012 -
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Category: Music, 1960s, Screams, Grunts and Other Exclamations
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