Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Ha Ha, Your Momma Took Penicillin
I was so scared and horrified when I read that you had taken penicillin. No wonder the doctor tested your heart. Don't ever take it again. After taking it several times it reacts on the heart and often causes death in a few minutes. Don't let any doctor give you any more of it.
Labels: 1950s, cool, ephemera, humor, medical, vintage








Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Memo To Becky: Pray Or Get Off The Pot

Labels: children, humor, old photographs, religion, toilet, vintage








Sunday, October 25, 2009
Todd Left To Get Liquid-Plumr

Via eBay.
Labels: humor, kitties, old photographs








Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Before Frosted Flakes...

Clarolyte rubber squeaky toy by Alan Jay; from my vintage rubber toy collection.
Labels: baby bottle, humor, kitsch, retro, tigers, toys








Friday, September 4, 2009
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Lucky Strikes

From Gillian Atkinson's photos at TEN.
Labels: humor, tobacciana, vintage ads, vintage advertising








Monday, July 20, 2009
When Andy Warhol Speaks

Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, and Entourage, New York, 1965; Steve Schapiro photographer.
Labels: 1960s, celebs, humor, retro








Thursday, May 28, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
The Nightmare That Is Sandy Mac Underwear

And why would it be cute to see a toddler in his underwear skating on thin ice?
Via KnittingTogether.org.
Labels: 1920s, fashion, humor, illustration, Save The Baby, vintage ads, vintage advertising, weird ads








Friday, March 6, 2009
"Do I sound like that?" "Yes."
Labels: advertising, food, humor, TV, weird ads, youtube








Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Thursday, January 1, 2009
New Year, New You: Workout With Dumbells

I prefer Russell's method myself.

Labels: celebs, humor, new year's day, old photographs, self-improvement








Thursday, December 25, 2008
Annual Family Tradition

Maybe it's cheese; maybe it's not (you can find out at Flickr). But then the food isn't really the issue now, is it.
Labels: food, humor, old photographs, vintage








Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Squirrel Found!

SQUIRREL FOUND! "Johnny C" over at A Hole In The Head had this on his fridge for a while, after meeting the creator, an underground comic artist. The webpage has a version big enough to print out and spread around your own little bubble of the world.
Labels: humor, poster, squirrels








Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
James Brown In National Geographic

Heh. Made you look. ...But if you read the text, it really could be him because "the Machiguenga refused to reveal their names; the men called this one Marino." So maybe James Brown traveled as Marino to avoid the crowds.
Labels: celebs, humor, vintage magazines








Monday, October 13, 2008
Pussy Doesn't Love The Canary For Its Song

Maybe the kid's only creepy for being on the card. Maybe you don't think he's creepy at all. But I'm pretty certain he's the 1920's version of a goth graffiti artist. But in any case, I found the vintage postcard well worth the $1.
Postmarked 1921; SB postcard number s.204.
Labels: 1920s, creepy, ephemera, humor, kitties, vintage, weird








Monday, September 8, 2008
Modern Woman Monday: What's In Your Fridge?

If you don't see the works with art nudes, create an account at Zazzle, go to 'account settings', and set 'the maturity level' to R.
Labels: altered art, appliances, cool, creepy, humor, Modern Woman Mondays, poster, retro style, weird








Saturday, September 6, 2008
Why Other Countries Hate It When McDonald's Comes To Town

Photo from a 1986 National Geographic magazine.
Labels: 1980s, children, humor, vintage magazines








Friday, September 5, 2008
Monday, September 1, 2008
Even After Years Of Studying Them

Illustration from Making Words Work, 1942.
Labels: children, humor, illustration, vintage








Friday, August 29, 2008
Urine Our Thoughts

Note card by Porterness, via XXBN.
Labels: cool, greeting card, humor, illustration, Urine For A Treat








Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
They Quickly Learned To Keep The Knives Away From Susan

Via LJ's Vintage Ad Community (we're still crediting them, hoping they'll credit us with the stuff they score here).
UPDATE: Hey, StumbleUpon folks -- there's a lot more at KKC, so start at the beginning and get so dizzy with the delights that folks will need to keep the knives away from you too.
Labels: food, humor, retro, vintage ads, vintage advertising








Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Someone Needs A Napkin

Via LJ's Vintage Ad Community -- someone there has been taking a lot of our scans lately, but not crediting us. :sigh:
Labels: 1950s, food, humor, retro








Monday, July 7, 2008
Before Wonka, The Umpa Loompas Made Coats
Naturally, they would have to change the spelling of their names from Umpa Lumpa to Oompa Loompa.
Vintage ads for Umpa furs, via eBay (1 & 2).
Labels: fashion, humor, vintage ads, vintage advertising








Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Let's Face It... A Slow Death Is Better?

We're not (just) making fun of the gay humor; the ad is queer no matter how you look at it.
Labels: humor, vintage ads, weird ads








Monday, May 19, 2008
How To Be a Super Secretary









Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Just Like A Man -- And A Woman

A boy can't learn too soon that in math, as in most subjects, there is a male and a female way to work things out. After a lesson in feminine-gender arithmetic my son figures that when it comes to higher powers of reasoning, men are squares.First up, gender punctuation:

"You are inquiring into a mystery unsolved by man. From the time a female learns to write, she is convinced that exclamation points were invented to be used. She even feels they will go to waste unless they are put into sentences."That's so not true!!
Regarding ellipsis...
The boy asks, "How about those dots in there?"
The father responds:
Dots sometimes are used for a specific purpose in the neuter, or masculine, gender. If you find a long row of them apparently just thrown in, they are feminine gender."My husband would have a field day with this... He abhors my continual use of ellipsis...
I, in return, must counter by pointing out that this article is proof that everything is considered masculine unless noted as feminine (and that feminine is lower in status). I'm just sayin'...

"Men teachers probably are told during their training to allow for the more complicated punctuation by girl pupils." :sigh: I suppose I should just be happy there was no mention of retarded or intolerant women teachers.
Then again... no mention of female teachers is rather sexist -- I mean, "It's rather sexist!"
Now we move onto gender in 'rithmetic.

The boy gets the correct answer, but dad makes an ambiguous statement...



Oh, and it all ends with a cute little story of the little woman besting "daddy". How quaint.
:snarl:
If you'd prefer to read the column in its entirety as it appeared:


Labels: 1960s, childhood, humor, school, sexist, vintage magazines







