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…
Category: Mildly Interesting
Slovenly Sister
I have come into possession of a large batch of letters received many years ago by a lady named Helen. Most of these are from the 1930’s and 40’s. Helen was away at college when she got this letter from her sister; not sure I would have kept it. This cursive is mostly readable. Helen’s…
The pool is nice, but those stairs.
This matchbook must be from the 20’s or 30’s, the heyday of the New Jersey Athletic Club; after that it was a hotel, the club went kaput because of changing demographics. I wonder if some of their 3000 plus members got a workout on these stairs. It had about 300 basic rental rooms, back then…
Drawing = Sitting down and being quiet
This is a project from my son in 2nd or 3rd grade I guess. Apparently the idea was to draw an anti-pollution poster. Because pollution is BAD I don’t know what they made in that factory at the top. Frank sees pollution, I see an investment opportunity. Nobody knew when these posters were drawn pointing…
Bring the kids to Vegas??
Here’s an early, early Circus Circus matchbook. I wonder if the clown dude was a mascot at some time, or just a whim. There is a claim on the inside, “ONLY family casino in Vegas” – setting aside the fact that kids can’t gamble. Mostly they sit in the hotel room and watch TV. We…
The chemical way
I don’t normally collect match BOXES, just match BOOK covers. But you have to love the martini drinking sad clown on this one. I don’t know why he is still sad. Go figure clowns. This was advertising for the Match-Me Corporation out of Palm Springs. I couldn’t dig up anything about them- Looks like they…
When you HAVE to get out
One thing that has helped my fragile sanity in these dark times is playing AMERICAN TRUCK SIMULATOR and it’s cousin EUROPEAN TRUCK SIMULATOR. I turn off sleep requirements and traffic tickets (If that is cheating, why do they allow it?) and sometimes I intentionally instigate horrible wrecks (There are no repercussions in the game, but…
My card, it’s sanitary
I took a page from my dad’s uncle’s book, and had cards printed up when I retired a few years ago. First the one with the hammock (A). I have a few left but I discovered that they put me in a bad light, people expect you to do something besides lay around when you…
Follow all instructions
It always amazes me what people will eat or drink. Remember when some idiots watching YouTube were eating TIDE PODS? Anyway… I don’t care how new and improved it is, drinking dishwashing liquid is a bad idea.
I finally cut my own hair!
I’m no Vidal Sassoon, but I cut my hair, and there are no bald patches etc. – With some creative combing, maybe a little Bryllcream, perhaps a big HAT, I might be able to go out in public if I have to.