Sometimes it?s really scary what human mind can conceive for advertising. If you are a vintage ads freak, you can find some more over here at the web site “Old Creepy Ads”
Here is a link to this wonderful site:http://www.weirdomatic.com/creepy-ads.html
The Art of Manliness Dictionary of Manly 19th Century Vernacular
I found an interesting page from the tongue-in-cheek web site, “The Art of Manliness” at: http://artofmanliness.com. As tongue-in-cheek the site may be, the phrases quoted from the page entitled ?Manly Slang from the 19th Century? were taken dictionaries from the 1800’s.
Here are some examples from the page:
Barking-Iron, or Barker: A pistol. Term used by footpads and thieves generally.
Half-mourning. To have a black eye from a blow. As distinguished from ? whole-mourning,? two black eyes.
Out of Print. Slang made use of by booksellers. In speaking of any person that is dead, they observe, ??he is out of print.?
Rib. A wife.
Sneeze-lurker. A thief who throws snuff in a person?s face, and then robs him.
Here is the link: Manly Slang from the 19th Century
Obama related to Pitt, Clinton to Jolie?
From the Yahoo News website: “Researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society found some remarkable family connections for the three presidential candidates ? Democratic rivals Obama and Clinton, and Republican John McCain.
Clinton, who is of French-Canadian descent on her mother’s side, is also a distant cousin of singers Madonna, Celine Dion and Alanis Morissette. Obama, the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, can call six U.S. presidents, including George W. Bush, his cousins. McCain is a sixth cousin of first lady Laura Bush.”
Read on: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080325/ap_on_el_pr/candidates_genealogy
O Holy Crap
The holidays are built on tradition, which means it’s time for us to gather around the yule log and listen to that insane rendition of O Holy Night.
It has been a year, and it remains as beautifully horrible as I remember. Here is an mp3 of it: http://www.hipcast.com/export/Pcdb6ba80abb10db44cedbd78f4ac15adYVhxQFREYmJ3.mp3
Merry Christmas!
Comedic Irish 12 Days of Christmas
This is a recording of Frank Kelly, a.k.a. Father Jack on the BBCs series Father Ted, doing his version of the 12 Days of Christmas. This is a youtube video link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQkF7fpw-wI.
Merry Christmas and Enjoy!
Are you filiopietistic? I know I am.
fil?i?o?pi?e?tis?tic
Pronunciation: ‘fi-lE-O-“pI-&-’tis-tik
Function: adjective
Etymology: filial + -o- + pietistic
: of or relating to an often excessive veneration of ancestors or tradition
– fil?io?pi?e?tism /”fi-lE-O-‘pI-&-“ti-z&m/ noun