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How Tacky Can Things Get
Whatever “life-sized” means in terms of breasts… I guess “one size fits all” meets “if you’ve seen one, you’ve seen ‘em all” in this vintage novelty item. Wind it up and watch it do its thing! Image...
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The Sennett Bathing Beauties
Billy Bevan flanked by four bathing beauties, 1920s Mack Sennett (January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian-born American director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film....
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Grand-daddy’s Sauce – Part 26
All posts material: “Sauce” and “Gentleman’s Relish” by Ronnie Barker – Hodder & Stoughton in 1977 The Black Pudding March ("The Soldier-boy’s Dream") Sung with great effect by the one and only...
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The Lure Of The Mad Men – Part 6
Text from the ad: Women are soft and gentle, but they hit things. If your wife hit something in a Volkswagen, it doesn’t hurt you very much. WV parts are easy to replace. and cheap. A fender comes off...
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Oh Shit!
Image found at Back to the five and dimeFiled under: Facts, Humour Tagged: Annie Sacks, Flying pancakes, Mrs Cleveland
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Julia Margaret Cameron – British Photographer
Julia Margaret Cameron (née Pattle; 11 June 1815 – 26 January 1879) was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of the time, and for photographs with Arthurian and...
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The Sunday Comic – A New Discovery
Filed under: Comix, Humour, Illustration Tagged: Melanchlies, Moxie's, Net poker, Strip poker
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This Week’s Girlymag Articel – I STRIP
"The first time I was given the job of stripping at a private party, I was a little bit nervous. I really thought that all the people there would be men, and to be honest, I was afraid they would all...
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An Early Type Of Recycling
RG-Fabrikken – The Retreading Factory. The poster is from 1947 so they were early with the retreading, at least round this neck of the woods. On the other hand, I think new tires was pretty scarce on...
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1938 Tatra T97
The Type 97 is a mid-class saloon car from Czechoslovak car-maker Tatra. It was produced for a short time in the pre-war period, from 1936 to 1939. History The T97 was designed in 1936 as a smaller...
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Austria
From the 33rd edition of “XXth Century Health And Pleasure Resorts Of Europe” published in 1933 GOVERNMENT – The republican Constitution of Austria, prepared in 1919 makes what remains of...
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Victorian Inventions – Part 28
From “Victorian Inventions” by Leonard De Vries published by American Heritage Press in 1972 Monsieur A. Gamonet of Lyons, France, has invented a practical apparatus for persons unable to swim. A...
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Determination
Some take their hobbies more seriously than others. Picture found at Cold is the Sea II I don’t know about you, but that day I think I would have found something else to do, no matter how fond I was...
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The DeZurik Sisters And Their Original Yodeling Style
The DeZurik Sisters (also known as The Cackle Sisters) were two of the first women to become stars on both the National Barn Dance and the Grand Ole Opry, largely a result of their original yodeling...
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Moxie’s – Comic Strip Background – Part 7
Moxie’s Café’s Regular Patrons – Part 6 Torvald Trall Traurigmyr Heavily Drinking Sheep Farmer Accordion Terrorist St Peter Pearly Gate Guard Drops by to check on Theodora Olava Simen Naava Skjulerud...
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This Week’s Softdrink – Kinnie
Kinnie (Maltese pronunciation: [kinːiː]) is a soft drink from Malta. It was first developed in 1952 by Simonds Farsons Cisk. Kinnie is amber in colour, has a bittersweet flavour, and is drunk straight...
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Jesús Helguera – Mexican Painter
Jesús Helguera (May 28, 1910 – December 5, 1971) was a Mexican painter. Among his most famous works are La Leyenda de los Volcanes, La Leyenda, Popocapetl & Ixtaccihuatl, Hidalgo, "Rompiendo las...
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Empty Underground Train Station
Picture taken in the central underground train station under the National Theatre in Oslo while I was waiting for my daughters’ train to arrive. The platform is actually not empty, but extremely long....
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Round Britain By Railway Posters – Isles of Scilly
The Isles of Scilly (/ˈsɪli/; Cornish: Syllan or Enesek Syllan) form an archipelago off the southwestern tip of the Cornish peninsula ofGreat Britain. Although the Isles of Scilly are still part of...
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The Bugster
Take one Beetle bodyshell… …mount it to a Boxster chassis… …and you get a Bugster! Brilliantly simple, right? Well, no, hideously complicated. But well worth it. 270bhp of mid-engined tomfoolery in a...
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