Month: October 2021

Old bus abandoned in woods
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So this guy finds a bus in the woods…

   October 31, 2021  0 Comments on So this guy finds a bus in the woods…

Abandoned bus in the woods

1960 baby shoes
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My shoes ain’t got no soul

   October 28, 2021

As luck would have it, my mother saved my baby shoes all these years. I must have been a lazy…

Vicks cough drops matchbook
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COUGH COUGH I took another puff

   October 28, 2021  0 Comments on COUGH COUGH I took another puff

Here’s a matchbook advertising Vick’s cough drops. It’s a MATCHBOOK. The person that needs cough drops probably smokes. Why not quit the cancer sticks and nip that cough in the bud?

Garden lady in old Ma Bell ad
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Working from home… It’s not new.

   October 25, 2021  0 Comments on Working from home… It’s not new.

Not so many years ago, we all depended on “Ma Bell” and Western Electric… It was fine for doing business…

part of Seattle World's Fair poster
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An alarmingly good time at the World’s Fair

   October 24, 2021  0 Comments on An alarmingly good time at the World’s Fair

However, they left behind a lot of fun stuff, the Space Needle of course, the monorail, the “bubbleator” – an elevator that was a big plastic bubble. Today is serves as a greenhouse at some guy’s property out in the boonies.

57 local dairy princess is sick of milk and even cheese
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Milk makes her fart

   October 23, 2021  0 Comments on Milk makes her fart

Here’s the 1957 Dairy Princess fixing to enjoy a glass of whatever passed for milk back then, probably some un-homogenized whole milk- Here we drink 1%, that stuff would probably taste like a glass of liquid butter to me.

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Worst. Party. Ever.

   October 23, 2021  0 Comments on Worst. Party. Ever.

I was thinking about surprising my wife with a birthday party this year. Our living room is not configured to…

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Computer game dreams shattered.

   October 20, 2021  0 Comments on Computer game dreams shattered.

Hey gang, remember Wacky Packages? Here’s one mocking the game Battleship… It’s BattleSHEEP. As in “Ewe sheared my Battlesheep”!!

Cement company old matchbook cover
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Travel light for better mileage

   October 16, 2021  0 Comments on Travel light for better mileage

Why did Campanella and Cardi hire this scrawny, skinny little guy to drive one of their huge industrial cement trucks? Is he somebody’s nephew?

Otter the Haggen mascot
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WHIMSICAL OTTER WEARS BASEBALL CAP BACKWARDS

   October 16, 2021  0 Comments on WHIMSICAL OTTER WEARS BASEBALL CAP BACKWARDS

I was perusing the local free newspaper a while back and was stopped in my tracks by this enticing coupon….