United Kingdom
Collect: The Stamp Collecting Game
As the folks at Board Game Geek tell us:Stanley Gibbons Collect: as it says on the box, "share the excitement and tension of building a major stamp collection". Stanley Gibbons is a famous UK firm that sells postage stamps to collectors and published this game in the 70s to promote the hobby. There wasn't much to do in Britain in the 70s.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 11, 2025 -
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Category: Boredom, Games, 1970s, United Kingdom, Postal Services
International Pancake Day in Liberal, Kansas
Their website is here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 08, 2025 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Food, North America, United Kingdom, Twenty-first Century
AWOL Through Sleepwalking
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 13, 2025 -
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Category: Military, Royalty, Sleep and Dreams, 1920s, United Kingdom, Anomie, Exhaustion, and General Malaise
Motel Automat
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 07, 2025 -
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Category: Inventions, Shopping, Hotels, 1960s, United Kingdom
The Elusive Scottish Haggis
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 27, 2024 -
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Category: Cryptozoology, Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, Humor, United Kingdom
Smog Helmet
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 23, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, 1950s, United Kingdom
Fresh Out of Borstal
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 10, 2024 -
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Category: Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Music, Prisons, 1970s, United Kingdom
The Devon Octopus Invasion
Summer of 1950: A strange Cold War conspiracy theory circulated among fishermen in Devon. They attributed a large number of octopuses in the coastal waters to the presence of Russian trawlers "fitted with tanks containing octopuses," releasing the creatures near the coast.
Plymouth Western Morning News - Sep 28, 1950
Posted By: Alex - Wed Sep 11, 2024 -
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Category: Fish, Conspiracy Theories and Theorists, 1950s, United Kingdom
Please don’t throw explosives in the trash
A very British way of asking people to not blow up garbage workers:
Derby Evening Telegraph - May 14, 1966
Posted By: Alex - Sun Sep 08, 2024 -
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Category: 1960s, United Kingdom, Weapons
Rene Strange, Singing Cartoonist
Her Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 11, 2024 -
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Category: Music, Puppets and Automatons, Cartoons, United Kingdom, Twentieth Century
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