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Winner Of Ugliest Font Contest
If I were a few decades older, had a poodle dog blue-tint permanent, cats-eye glasses, and support hose, I would jump up and yell, “Bingo!” because this font is hideous. By golly, this font is...
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Splendor In The Raked Leaves
Is he wearing two button-down shirts, one right over the other?
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Superfecta: Knock Knees, Incontinence, Bowling, And The Uncola
It wasn’t Red Bull that gave her wings. Let’s not go overboard, Cindy. It’s only a spare. Not everything can be the pause that refreshes. Now where’s the Seagram’s? http://www.prosportstickers.com/ So...
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Places To Go, People To See, Part I
Have a hankering to visit the Sunshine State? No, not the Australian state of Queensland! But before you start packing, please review the following: http://visual.ly/50-insane-facts-about-florida...
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Places To Go, People To See, Part II
I thought Arizona was a desert, but I hear it’s flooding right now. When I think of Arizona, I don’t think of lush, verdant fields and crops, much less apple trees. But that’s only because they never...
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Places To Go, People To See, Part III
Look, honey, there on the horizon–rich folk! Not in the mood for a skin-damaging tan and a romp in the sun? Try exciting Canada! “Treasures! Uncrowded!” Uncrowded? Is that the best selling point? I...
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Cruising With The Kuklapolitan Players
The ad says this gay cruise has gentle trade winds, but I imagine there was more rough trade than gentle.
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The Case For Coffin Nails And Lung Darts
Smoking looks pretty fantastic in ads of yore. I may need to rethink my vices. Toweling off never looked so exhilarating. 1955 Phillip Morris Have you ever seen a more fetching football ensemble? It...
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Places To Go, People To See, Part IV
Today we turn the clock back to June 1952. When traveling overseas, remember to take your finest suit for maximum comfort and ease as you read the precious books by people from colorful lands. If $675...
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Places To Go, People To Offend
All of today’s images were scanned from a January 1949 Holiday magazine that I own. In general, I think people are too quick to be offended and play the victim card and nurse their perceived wounds....
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Trailers For Sale Or Rent
Three blocks from my subdivision, I can throw a stick in any direction and hit a mobile home. And a chainlink fence. And some curious tire “art” formed into flamingos. And that old man in torn boxer...
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She Knows How To Use Them
http://noticierodiario.com.ar/ Back in 2008, He Pingping and Svetlana Pankratova posed in Trafalgar Square in London for the Guinness Book Of Records. The world’s shortest man was just 29.37 inches...
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Make All Our Dreams Come True
Several years ago, we visited the little town of Dublin, Texas, which housed a 122-year-old bottling company that produced Dr Pepper with cane sugar. Every visitor received a free sample bottle to...
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Let’s All Go To The Lobby
1955 Cinema Some of you may be geriatric mature enough to recall these ads:
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Ads That Almost Changed My Mind, Part I
This 1933 ad for Budweiser is so colorfully delicious, that I almost forgot my many encounters with the “King of Bottled Beer” and the inherent mehness it consistently offers. My Bud experience has...
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