Posted in Flotsam

Marilyn Monroe VS The Monroe Brothers

I recently acquired some Marilyn Monroe trading cards. They’re nice and all, she was a beautiful lady. Still… Can she build a chicken coop? Can…

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Posted in The postcards

Too much fun

This postcard offers the pathetic excuse for not writing, “having too much fun”. We haven’t had much fun recently, but I have been watching some…

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Posted in Uh

Pretty bad NSFW chicken joke

A sadist, a masochist, a murderer, a necrophile, a zoophile and a pyromaniac are all sitting on a bench in a mental institution. “Let’s have…

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Posted in The Advertising

Monster mail order scam

Kids of the 1960’s got to go to the school of hard knocks; sending a hard-earned dollar, getting a monster poster, your choice of Frankenstein…

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Cool Hand Luke movie ad
Posted in The Advertising

Any man playing grabass or fightin’ in the building spends a night in the box.

In the winter of 1967, you can bet there was a lot of “FAILURE… to communicate.” And just maybe, a run on eggs? I wonder…

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drone and worker honeycombs
Posted in Grey Gardens West

Roaches, termites, and bees! Oh my.

This bee guy on YouTube went to get bees from a wall of a house, unfortunately he also found cockroaches, and the framework was ruined…

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Posted in Flotsam

GoodReads

GoodReads.com is a handy way to keep track of books you read, so hopefully you won’t get to page 47 and realize that you already…

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Posted in Ephemera

AND DON’T COME BACK!!

I really like old stock certificates with the gowned ladies in a little vignette at the top. Somebody must have, I don’t know, peed in…

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Topless woman demands equal rights (old comic card)
Posted in Ephemera

She has a point there!

I have a batch of these “comic cards” from the 50’s. The topless ladies featured all seem to have inflamed nipples and areolas. What’s up…

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Posted in The Advertising

Monsters? You have no idea.

I have no idea what is growing on these (paper? cloth?) “monsters” to simulate hair. I hope it’s not mold! This ad was from a…

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