It’s the personal blog of a somewhat bored retired airplane factory drone. Oddly, my name anagrams to “Never Jet Hot”. Go figure! I have the gamut of old fart hobbies, collecting old matchbook covers, and other midcentury odds and ends; because I want to go back there. We hunt for Geocaches, and used to travel…
Finally got the Larry Tate card!
I got some more of those “Desert Storm Trading Cards” and there was a Tariq Aziz card! A prized card due to his uncanny resemblance to Larry Tate on Bewitched. (That guy would be a worthy adversary to be sure.) Next up, looking for a Schwarzkopf card?
Little Johnny jokes still exist
I know college kids these days have no sense of humor, but for the rest of us who enjoy a tacky, juvenile joke now and then… Little Johnny tries to figure it out The kindergarten class had a homework assignment to find outabout something exciting and relate it to the class the nextday. When the…
Graceful batshit
I found this Grace Line matchbook and did a little googling. It seems that this company started out by importing bat poop to the USA, where it was in high demand, because you know we love our batshit. Grace Line had an impressive line of cruise ships, and they flew their freak flag for decades,…
You can’t go home again
I was looking at the house I grew up in on Google Maps, and I noticed something that kind of made me sad. That tan roofline behind the house. Apparently somebody build a house right in our back yard! Took out the tree my sister used to climb. Probably the swamp with the frogs you…
Remember Jackalopes?
Pepperidge Farms remembers those silly Jackalopes. Well, this one looks like merely a giant rabbit. The stuff of nightmares until 2020 came along with it’s litany of night terror inducing events. You might think this is cute, but remember, these critters reproduce REALLY FAST.
I bring you… Music! Or… a house fire!
I would like to see if this old Airline brand portable tube radio from Monkey Wards still works, it uses a D battery but there is a lot of corrosion there, I can fix that. (The D cell is to heat up the tubes, I think). But it also uses a 67.5 volt battery the…
BIZZARE NEW EPIDEMIC
I came across these fun old Mad Magazine collector cards, this one caught my eye… This pair of cards simulate the famous fold-in gag from the last page of each Mad Magazine, at least during the era I was a subscriber. This one is concerned that “Busy medics are worried about a new freak epidemic…
Wet dog blues
Poor Cody looks so pathetic, especially when he is dripping wet. And I still have to carefully hand-pluck those little burr things out of his face-fur. Where does he get those? I don’t know whether give him a scooby snack, or call the ASPCA on myself, although he came from the animal shelter looking like…
A nice day in Cumberland
I like these extra-wide matchbooks. This one is for the Hazelton company, manly men with their crawlers, dozers, pay-loaders, rollers and graders… everything you need to establish dominance over dirt. Inside the matchbook it proclaims that “You can depend on their “Hazelton Men of Service”. None of this rolling up on the worksite at half…
HO SHIT Scale Railroading
Apparently, I forgot what a frustrating hobby this was, my last train set was about 25 years ago, and my first when I was about 6 in 1966 or so, back then I was fine with a Tyco loop and a few plastic buildings, on plywood. My parents later sold it and used the money…