Grueling life on the farm pre-Netflix
This guy looks like he is thinking about going into his Uncle Marv’s Cheese business. The number of horse heads vs. the number of legs, is starting to get to him. I gained even...
Category: Mildly Interesting
Stranger Things Eggo Game; It’s evil Uno
Got my son the Stranger Things Eggo game, we played it once, but it’s basically overcooked Uno, The twist is that your character card gets flipped during play, and if it’s in the “upside...
Does anybody really know what time it is?
I really like this sort of lazy clock I got for Christmas. It displays the time in sentence form, changing to catch up every five minutes. That’s close enough for a retired guy. Now...
It was fun a quarter century ago. Outdated software galore
I was looking for a certain CD but got sidetracked looking at my old games; Simcopter, Simtower, add-ons galore for “The sims”… I guess I was into simulations back then. There are pinball games,...
What would TSA think of this portable Zenith?
This portable (luggable?) Zenith radio featured a proprietary antenna that flipped out from the radio to pull in stronger or more distant am radio signals. When stowed, it looked like a small, elegant suitcase....
Professional farts
We used to own a novelty store. One day I was searching for wholesale remote control fart machines (Think whoopie cushions but electronic). There is a company in China offering these; I don’t know...
Grandma’s soap saver
I was listening to the Larry Miller podcast, he was going on about saving soap slivers in the shower, somehow mushing them together to form a bar sufficient to bathe with. Apparently that is...
MY BRAIN HURTS
I guess when your head hurts so bad that you can’t even stand the sight of a trademark stamp, you don’t care about side effects, but acetanilid will do a number on your kidneys...
Take your medicine, Gladys. I don’t see any horses.
Folks were flush with postwar cash in 1946, and they were asked what they would like to splurge on. This little girl wants a horse in the worst way, and it looks like that’s...
Soldiers of Soda
Back in the day, apparently you could get into the Saturday Matinee for what? A dollar? Thirty-Five cents? Nope! Just six 7-up bottle caps! You could probably find them in the alley behind Uncle...
