Category: Mildly Interesting
Lamp chimney cleaning beats protesting.
This 1951 newspaper comic panel appealed to the households who were still waiting for electricity, I guess. Although I wonder if they had the extra…
My team won, see?
This 1960 copy of “Spare Time” has a lot of money making opportunities, but not sure about the little 22 pistols wholesaling for $6.95 The…
Let’s play in the poop! YAY!
I was doing some Christmas shopping and ran across this Hasbro game, “Don’t Step in it!” (It’s an Amazon exclusive!) You play it on a…
Pepsi giveth, Pepsi taketh away.
I heard that Pepsi came out with a special seasonal flavor, Apple Pie Pepsi. They say it “mimics the texture and mouth-feel of apple pie.”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
