Isn’t anybody curious?
I got this WWII electronic relay in a can in a box of auction stuff, I think. It was never opened, so I don’t have any idea of what it looks like; it is in something like an old oil…
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Flotsam
Too many monkeys!
If you all think my matchbook covers collecting is a stupid hobby, There is a lady on Facebook is downsizing her Sock Monkey collection. If she is culling Mr. Coconuts AND the Family School Bus Set, that’s 10 monkeys- so…
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Is it a screw or a nail?
We used to sell these “reproduction” cathouse tokens at our novelty store, back in the day. I use the word reproduction loosely, because I doubt that Dotty needed to resort to advertising specialties, and if she did, it would bring…
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Schrodinger’s Can
I got this old Navy surplus can with an electrical relay inside with some other crap at an old-fashioned auction a while back. I want so bad to open it, but it would destroy the can and probably wouldn’t be…
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Now all you need is some Hi Karate
Had to get this matchbook at a street sale, after embarrassing myself by letting a lecherous HEHEHEHE laugh escape while reading the comic. Very curious about this GEM razor with “guiding eye”… Not sure I want it watching me shave…
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Boeing Stress Relief
I’m retired now, but when I was working they gave me one of those adult coloring books… You know the kind, you need colored markers because Crayolas are too fat. Seems to me that these should have been distributed to…
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Kill the dandruff germ!
I picked up this neat bottle at the Saturday auction, it once contained “Newbro’s Herpicide” and claimed that it “kills the dandruff germ”. Mr. Newbro had some wacky ideas about what causes dandruff and baldness. I read up on this…
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Don’t be in the dark about flashlights!
This is from a Jensen-Byrd Wholesale hardware catalog from 1951, that my dad had and referred to once in a blue moon. A huge hardback thing that Mr. Drucker would haul out if he didn’t have what you needed in…
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It’s human nature to slack off
It’s 1935- The depression is barely over, not over for a lot of people, yet this yarn wench chooses to slack off her work, and get cigarette stench all over the product. I guess it’s human nature to take advantage…
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Review of Wu-Minglu MP3 sleep sportsband
PROS: Built well Volume adjustment right there on my forehead NO noise leak, my wife can’t even hear it. Charge lasts 8 hours + Good price (Less than $20) See it here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WG1NF38/ (not an affiliate link) CONS: Speakers barely…
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