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This Online Twitter Museum Posts Ridiculously Interesting Finds, Here Are 50 Of The Best Ones
Interview
There are three things that we believe without a shadow of a doubt. First of all, Planet Earth is ruled by a shadowy cabal of Feline Overlords—The Illumeownati who spread their influence through cat pics. Secondly, pineapple definitely belongs on pizza, and there’s nothing you can say that’ll change our minds. And finally: fact really is stranger than fiction.
The past is a far stranger land than many of us assume. We’re surrounded by weirdness every day on the internet, on the subway, and in our very own minds. But after taking a good long peek through the fuzzy black-and-white static into the decades and centuries that came before us, we can safely say that we’ve always been living in an extended special of The Twilight Zone.
From weird vintage contraptions, knick-knacks, and clothes to bamboozling products, ads, and inventions, some of the strangest things that human history and creativity has to offer end up being shared on ‘The Museum of Curiosities’ Twitter page, run by the Monsieur Pompier’s Travelling Freakshow musical group.
Cue the creepy carnival music and grab a bag of popcorn, Pandas, we’re about to travel back in time for a heavy dose of Weirdness with a capital ‘W.’ Don’t forget your fave pics, and be sure to let us know what you think in the comments. Just… don’t feed the clowns. Intrigued by the pics? Check out Monsieur Pompier’s socials and album, too. Their music has a pretty cool vibe.
Bored Panda got in touch with Paul, aka Monsieur Pompier himself, and he was kind enough to tell us about the 'The Museum of Curiosities.' An incredibly cool thing is that he's actually planning on turning it into a real-life museum! This is the very first time he's revealed this publicly. "The big news is that I am turning the museum into a reality! Next year I am hoping to open my own real-life physical Museum of Curiosities here in my hometown of Dublin, Ireland. I can't say much more about it for now, but if anyone would like to help make this dream a reality they can donate here." Check out our full interview below, Pandas!
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Kitty Purry 3 years ago
Those would make a beautiful palette. Somebody should pick that concept up, lol.
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niki.bordeaux 3 years ago
Wow. Never knew the moon can have so many different colours and shades.
Paul, aka Monsieur Pompier, revealed to Bored Panda that originally, 'The Museum of Curiosities' was called 'Vintage Oddities.' "Then, after that, I used the account more as a vehicle for my band Monsieur Pompier's Travelling Freakshow. Over the past year or so I decided to go back to my roots with the account and focus more on weird curiosities and oddities of the past, especially as the idea to launch my own 'real life' museum was building day by day," he said.
"I took big inspiration from one of my favourite websites on the internet 'The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things' curated by Dr. Chelsea Nichols and Viktor Wynd's 'Museum Of Curiosities' in London as well as a bunch of other museums both real and fictional who operate in the same strange world as me. I'm a magpie for anything oddball and unusual, especially from the past so I'm always on the lookout for stories about things like old medical devices, bad taxidermy, the occult, bad inventions, weird unsolved mysteries, and so on.
Monsieur Pompier shared his thoughts with Bored Panda about why the Twitter account's content resonates with so many people. "People are always looking for something outside of the ordinary, something beyond their reality or as an escape from mundanity. It's probably similar to the success of ghost stories or horror movies, there seems to be a magnetism towards what frightens or unsettles us," he said.
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AW 3 years ago
You can easily get one custom made by brands like goyard or louis vuitton for like $30-50k
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Josie Bisbano 3 years ago
People who used that never carried their own trunks.
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Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I hadn't heard of that movie before, but it just happens to be wat is playing on tv where I live right now, talk about coincidence!
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Colin Timp 3 years ago
Back in the day when other people carried your luggage. This wouldn't be at all practical today.
Ronda News Channel 3 years ago
The design is more complicated but very helpful in arranging items
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Nitka Tsar 3 years ago
Yes. „The scents included were Chypre, Amber, Heliotrope, Rose, Jessamine, Mayflower, Mimosa, and Violet“
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Janine B. 3 years ago
Found the answer here: https://www.pinterest.de/pin/472948398371197239/
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
I love this— it is so wonderfully creative. What a fun and unique piece.
Lois Matelan 3 years ago
The scents included were Chypre, Amber, Heliotrope, Rose, Jessamine, Mayflower, Mimosa, and Violet.
Aunt Riarch 3 years ago
I'm trying to read the label round the top, is it Rosa or the end of mimosa
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago (edited)
I just found a site that said it was a lovely orange 🍊 scent and sold at auction for over 3000 dollars! https://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/3319T/lots/1016
Load More Replies... "I think particularly now as we're living through the sterility of the internet age, these strange physical objects of the past with fascinating back stories harness an even greater aura of mystery and shine a light on bygone times and customs."
Paul mused that when the people of the future look back on this era, they might actually see it as "the second wave of quack medicine, with self-medication and the power of pharmaceutical companies growing all the time."
"Elsewhere, some of the face masks and skincare treatments currently available very much hark back to the often mocked beauty treatments of the 1930s and '40s. One thing I hope we will look back on with a great deal of cringe is the prevalence of the 'laughing-crying' emoji."
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glowworm2 3 years ago
Has he turned into a prince? Sorry, there hasn’t been any change in him yet.
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
Hauntingly gorgeous- looks like a scene from a Guillermo Del Toro movie. The Victorians were definitely fascinated by the macabre, which made sense considering death and horribly tragic accidents were such a common part of life for them. Victorians were also know for posing with deceased loved ones. Creepy.
AxleMunshine001 3 years ago (edited)
Indeed. I've seen photographs of deceased toddlers posing with the rest of the family. Propped up like they were still alive, next to the rest of the brothers and sisters. Incomprehensible in this day and age, but normal back then.
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Little king trash mouth 3 years ago
Came here to see if someone else thought that!
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Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 3 years ago
I've never understood this. ... Is the bandage* supposed to have ice or something underneath it? * I don't know if that's what it's called. I just know that I see it in a lot of things like this
Finally, we were incredibly interested to hear about Paul's band, Monsieur Pompier’s Travelling Freakshow, their inspiration, and their passion for music.
"Monsieur Pompier's Travelling Freakshow is my very eccentric rock group and sometimes cabaret act. We've been performing all around Europe and in our homeland of Ireland since 2018 with a rotating cast of characters including The Ear Fairy, Guts The Cat, The Crabbit, as well as newcomers such as Betty Bogweed and Sister Whispers. On stage, I attempt to sing my ridiculous songs whilst the 'freaks' interact with me or the audience as they interpret and act out the story of their individual songs," he said.
"Our shows are very surreal and often end up in complete chaos—it's all about getting people out of their comfort zones. Last year, we were proud to release our debut album Teatime Terrors on Cleopatra Records and since then we've transformed into a fully-fledged four-piece live band. In many ways, the museum is an extension and evolution of the Travelling Freakshow, taking the concept to the next level."
Monsieur Pompier draws inspiration from horror stories, unsolved mysteries, psychedelia, experimental and new wave music, children's television of the 1970s and '80s. I enjoy taking mundane topics and blowing them up into something theatrical and grandiose—like a new song I'm working on called 'Billy Breakfast' about a neglected housewife who has an affair with her breakfast when the face in the pan comes to life."
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Julia Silvester 3 years ago
It’s not abandoned it’s in Pazo San Lorenzo de Trasouto. Santiago de Compostela and is carefully tended.
Max Robitzsch 3 years ago
Agree, its clearly not abandoned - the paths are still there, just quite narrow.
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2WheelTravlr 3 years ago
Not abandoned, not a maze. It's the courtyard garden of the beautiful Pazo de San Lorenzo in Santiago. https://www.elespanol.com/quincemil/articulos/actualidad/el-pazo-de-san-lorenzo-de-trasouto-retiro-santiagues-de-un-emperador-y-de-rosalia-de-castro
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
I thought that it was a Mayan or Aztec petroglyph at first glance.
Sawdust 3 years ago
And it kind of looks like the Super Audio CD "SACD" logo, too!
Load More Replies... Karen Grace 3 years ago
It's a shame it was allowed to grow in like that. I don't think it could be cut back without seriously damaging the hedges.
Alice Teasdale 3 years ago
Just been down a Google rabbit hole, thanks to Julia Silvester for saying where it is! Seems like it's just a low topiary sculpture not a maze. Hence nobody has to squeeze through the gaps except the gardener
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At the time of writing, ‘The Museum of Curiosities’ had 17.4k loyal followers on Twitter. They focus on highlighting the unusual, the peculiar, and the low-key unsettling in their social media posts, and we think it works perfectly.
We don’t know about you, Pandas, but we’re pretty big fans of vintage weirdness. It’s a lot of fun when you start digging up all the odd ideas and behaviors the people of the past lived with. It helps put our modern world into context and how, after a few decades, we too might seem like complete oddballs to the humanity of the future.
‘The Museum of Curiosities’ is the brainchild of Monsieur Pompier’s Travelling Freakshow troupe. “A nightmarish cabaret steeped in the surreal, Monsieur Pompier makes music about inside-out cats, hedgehog swallowers, and devious doctors,” the band writes on its website.
The aim of the musical group is to “unite all oddballs and outcasts welcoming them into his midst with open arms.” In short, they’re all about inspiring others to embrace their own inner weirdness, and learning to recognize it—with a wide, toothy smile—in others. Created in 2017, the band signed up with Cleopatra Records in 2021. Their debut album, Teatime Terrors, is available in digital form, as well as in vinyl, which we think really suits the group’s vibe.
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Jan Puckett 3 years ago
how could this exist, and I not know about it? I now have proof that I was officially deprived as a child
2WheelTravlr 3 years ago
This is a reproduction, you can find them for sale for under $300 USD.
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Kayjunmoon 3 years ago
I’ve seen this many times and I still love it. The panache of balancing dressed in such a dapper fashion.
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Jack Holt 3 years ago
This reminds me of a mini bible I found once. It was the size of a matchbox. Had selected verses only, one per page, but it was pretty cute
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I had a miniature bible as a teen, on a keyring a think. The cover was made of beautiful enamelled metal. It was about half the size of a matchbox but had the regular amount of text per page as a normal one, just written very small. My eyesight was quite good at the time so I read it okay but my parents couldn't! I think I still have it floating around somewhere...
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Karen Grace 3 years ago
That is amazing and adorable, though reading the books might be a little difficult, lol.
Vintage weirdness is a fascinating topic, and one that we’ve touched upon a number of times here at Bored Panda. For instance, a single glance at how much the beauty industry has changed over the past couple of centuries can really make your jaw drop.
Dr. Jane Nicholas, from St. Jerome’s University at the University of Waterloo, previously explained to Bored Panda that, as the world became more modern, more and more people moved to cities from the countryside. As such, it became difficult to know who everyone was, meaning that people began judging each other even more based on their appearances. This led to the beauty industry having even greater importance than before.
“When dislocated from their context, what was typical in one time period seems strange in another. Today, we see the highly filtered, fully made up selfie as quite ordinary. When you pause to consider it though, it is interesting to think about how those reflect changes in technology (both digital and in cosmetics), as well as in dominant presumptions of what is considered beautiful. It can also be reflective of the democratization of techniques in lighting and makeup application that were historically reserved for insiders within modeling. Now, anyone can use them,” Dr. Nicholas explained to Bored Panda.
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Fraxinus excelsior 3 years ago
I want this too I'd better stop looking, I've already potentially spent loads of money.
Amy Taylor 3 years ago
SAME!!! The trunk, the bat lantern and now THIS???
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Mama Penguin 3 years ago (edited)
When your guests expect a dainty tea set and you drop this epic teapot on the table.
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Michael Sanders 3 years ago (edited)
Even in the ‘50s cats were like “wtf this again?”
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That is just like the back yard behind my Nana’s house. I used to live with her. One toilet for 5 houses, no hot water in the house and a candle to light us to the bed l shared with her. I was happy and never felt poor. I think of her every day.
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago (edited)
Incredibly cute! The cat like all cats is trying to feign amusement.
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LapCat 3 years ago
Very interesting! They got the concept correct but could only use things that existed to them at that time to portray it
T5n 3 years ago (edited)
I agree. I’d love to see a whole post about what the past thought the future would look like. On a side note, that’s one of the reasons I enjoyed reading 20,000 leagues under the sea.
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I'm Kid A 3 years ago
Portrayed on left: Millennial in a onesie, vaping during a Zoom conference on an iPad while wearing Beats by Dr. Dre headphones. Portrayed on right: Amelia Earhart in an American Apparel hoodie with matching beanie and shades. Both drinking Starbucks lemonade-flavored Refreshers with paper straws.
Michael Sanders 3 years ago
Nice. You’re gonna see hipsters with this set up soon.
Load More Replies... Robert T 3 years ago
Something pleases me that they thought people would be considerate enough to use headphones rather than having it on speakerphone so the world and his dog has to listen to you.
Elora Danan 3 years ago
Even with headphones, you're still gonna hear one side of the conversation. Why does hearing the other side make it so much worse? People should stick to texting while out in public.
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Madhuri Das 3 years ago
Makes me wonder how different the future will be from what our current conception of what it will be is!
Potato Chimps 3 years ago
Everyone in their future smokes cigarettes since it was healthy for you.
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
This vision of the future is part of collector’s album issued in 1930 by Echte Wagner, a German margarine company which issued several albums of cards between the wars. Each image comes with an explainer on the verso. This one shows a docking station for an airship.
Lots more here: https://flashbak.com/wonderful-futuristic-visions-of-germany-by-artists-in-1930-381451/ zukunftsfa...67a2ce.jpg 
“Using X-rays for hair removal [in the past], for example, also reflects the fact that technology emerges before the full impact of its use is known,” she said. “It’s quite ordinary today to inject a form of botulism into your face or to dress in the skin of another animal. Over time, though, as our collective beliefs and values change, these ordinary acts might come to be seen as extraordinary.”
Meanwhile, psychologist Lee Chambers told Bored Panda that the audience enjoys analyzing at the darker, stranger aspects of the human condition because of how we’re wired. "When considering why the darker side of humanity and entertainment are so compelling, we have to first look at our evolutionary journey as human beings. For the majority of our existence, we were prey and always hyperaware of threats to our safety, which created a negativity bias that we are drawn towards," he said.
"But in today's safe and often sanitized world, we are rarely threatened significantly, and the ability to explore evil, frightening and gruesome entertainment is one of the few ways we can visit this part of humanity while remaining safe and comfortable. There is a level of novelty to it, it removes boredom quickly, and it helps us to discover our emotional limits,” he explained why, for instance, many people are so drawn to the true crime genre.
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2WheelTravlr 3 years ago
I love how some of these make me dig deeper for more context and I land on great articles like this one talking about how this was actually part of a series of similar expectation/reality comics first printed in 1919. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-43783521
EpicWolfandSparrow 3 years ago (edited)
How is that worse? I may be missing something, I'm not very smart on this particular day (ps I love your username!)
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2WheelTravlr 3 years ago (edited)
Early term for a snapshot, with slower film speeds available at the time any photo taken indoors required a flash. What we call a flashlight today was originally called a torch.
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Niall Mac Iomera 3 years ago (edited)
Definitely not the world's first meme. Memes have existed for thousands of years
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Marley Nachi 3 years ago
this is the early version of keeping all the tabs open at once on your browser
Max Robitzsch 3 years ago
But when it crashes because you got too many open, the damage is physical! :-)
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Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
I read about these in "The Book on the Bookshelf" by Henry Petroski. Highly recommended to any bibliophile!
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glowworm2 3 years ago
I love them, especially the very last one on the bottom right corner. It’s adorable.
Alicia Cypressi 3 years ago
Love them!! I love how they seem to each have their own distinct personality
erinmophila_gibsonii 3 years ago
I was just about to say the same thing 😁
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As strange as the past seems to us now, we’ll almost inevitably end up being a source of amusement for the future inhabitants of Planet Earth. Though we might think of ourselves as rational, progressive people, we still hang on to a ton of superstitions. Meanwhile, as science continues to advance, technologies and behaviors that we’ve embraced as facts now may turn out to be far more nuanced in the future… or wrong, entirely.
Aaron Genest, from Siemens Software, told Bored Panda during an earlier interview that in order to predict the future, you have to look ‘upstream’ in the investment space. In other words, follow the money to see what tech will likely be widespread in the near future.
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2WheelTravlr 3 years ago (edited)
It's a Studebaker hearse from the mid 1920s. You can read more about it here: https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2012/02/29/deleite-gotico-the-beauty-of-spanish-funeral-coaches#&gid=1&pid=8
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Amanda Rose 3 years ago
Humorous historical photos are some of my favorite things. I have a photo of an ancestor riding a pig while wearing a three piece suit.
Amanda Rose 3 years ago
For everyone who wanted a picture, here he is! 150491388_...451623.jpg 
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TheQueenZ 3 years ago
To be fair, they probably chose the pinks and yellows for how they would appear and provide contrast in black and white filming. Still pretty startling and I kind of love it.
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Robert McKenzie 3 years ago
I would loved to have visited that set, let alone meet the actors in costume!
"For instance, it takes almost two years to develop and produce a computer chip and get it to market for a phone, and five years to get something into a new kind of car. So if we want to have a sense for what, for instance, the gadgets in our cars will look like in 2026, we just need to look at what the car manufacturers are asking their suppliers to design today,” he told us that investors aim to recoup the money they’d put in.
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
So eerily beautiful. I think that death was always on people’s minds in the 16th century from lack of proper medical care to fighting in battles
Michael Sanders 3 years ago
Unreleased Iron Maiden album cover. Eddie got his start a long time ago
Lorraine R 3 years ago
Probably carved from boxwood - very fine, dense grain.
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Karen Klinck Klinck 3 years ago
I hesitate to ask what it's made out of, but that's a nice piece of work.
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Indosidius 3 years ago
Too many accidents made by single drivers making coffee
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Piper 3 years ago
My house before the one I own now was a 50s Cinderella ranch, and I loved it so much. It was solid, and the layout was incredible. The person who built it was a carpenter so it had crown in every room, it had the original window in the living room that was almost the whole wall, the light was amazing, it had original floors, I was only the 4th owner so it was just amazing. The original bathroom was still all original yellow tile! If I could have picked that house up and moved it when we had to move (for work) I would have. Our current home is new construction and though it is smaller (we really didn’t need the space of the old house) and I added touches to make it not look cookie cutter to include recycled old wood floors, it just isn’t the same.
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SpirklePlatz 3 years ago
Boiling water and porcelain in a seatbelt-less death trap at 80mph — what could *possibly* go wrong??
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Jack Holt 3 years ago
Similar birds have been observed carrying branches that are on fire (either from bushfire/lightning strike/campfire) and drop it into an area they want to flush prey out of. They effectively create a new fire in order to get an easy dinner. Very smart birds
SobyKay 3 years ago (edited)
Which begs the question....was the crow above really doing Tippi a favor? Or threatening her with fire? 😨
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Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
I recently saw an article on a science site that asked, "If dinosaurs were around for millions of years, why didn't they develop sentience?" Here's clear evidence that they probably did. But any technological evidence they might have created would certainly not have lasted 65 million years. Can you think of anything humans have built that will last that long? Perhaps a few radioactive isotopes we came with will still be around but would they prove that we existed or created them?
Telepathetic 3 years ago
Must have been before her big scene was filmed--Afterwards she was terrified (and P.O.ed at Hitchcock)
For Ramona Pringle, from the Creative Innovation Studio at Ryerson University, the future, no matter what shape it takes, is bound to hold a few unchanging things. “We love stories, and we love to be part of something bigger than ourselves. Be it oral storytelling, books, blogs, movies, or video games, we’ve never lost our love of narrative,” she said that these elements are very likely to be present in the way that the technology of the future is used.
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crazy_cat_notAlady 3 years ago
So old, yet you could see how toasted your bread is. My toaster has two options, raw like my humor or black like my soul.
Potater tot 3 years ago
My toaster is a big oven-like thingie and the door is glass so it lets me see the bred
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Firstname Lastname 3 years ago
At least with this one I can see how brown my toast is getting.
natalie cohen 3 years ago
No you can’t. It only toasted one side at a time, the side that is toasting is against the coils. They were treacherous.
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Wolfe 3 years ago
or eating off of them, especially the spiral pronged fork
Load More Replies... Karen Grace 3 years ago
Those are some wicked looking forks! Those will keep elbows off the table!
Don't you wish you knew 3 years ago
Came to a comments just to see if anyone else thought that was also a spork!
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Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
Now let's see what HR Giger came up with... why are they writhing? Can metal even do that? ... they're not metal? Oh God.
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Headless Roach 3 years ago
No, actually I am not yet done missing you. Would you mind leaving again?
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Got Banned But Now I'm Back 3 years ago
Definitely not haunted. Def. Def. Definitely not haunted.
“For the last decade, we’ve leaned into virtual reality because of how it enables both of these. We can step inside a world and have influence over it, and the story or experience that unfolds. I think one of the things we can expect moving forward is, in a sense, the opposite of virtual reality. Instead, more of an enhanced reality or fictional reality, wherein the entertainment isn’t in a headset, but instead, all around us,” Pringle told Bored Panda.
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glowworm2 3 years ago
No thanks. I don’t want to draw on the sidewalk with Creepo the Clown’s teeth.
Kate 3 years ago
Just imagine how it'll look as the pieces of chalk are used...
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unfilteredCigarette73 3 years ago
I found this same box whilst digging through my grandma's basement when I was around 7y.o. it had never been used and scared the bejesus out of me
Katy McMouse 3 years ago
That's just great. Three in one phobias: a clown, teeth and teeth representing chalk. The chalk is actually worse - I can feel it on my fingers and hands and if anyone wants to torture me, make me use an old school chalkboard.
TotallyNOTaFox 3 years ago
I think I understand why there are so many cases of coulrophobia nowadays...
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Amy Taylor 3 years ago
I have my grandparent's old deco bedroom set from the 40's that has a radio built into the headboard. It's stunning!!
unfilteredCigarette73 3 years ago
I love old tube radios, im currently learning how to fix the wiring on these and old guitar amps
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Mitchell 3 years ago
Delighted to read that that’s an engineer, rather than diminishing her talent by just being “a woman”.
T. Unnamable 3 years ago
In those days it wasn't primitive, was it? It was cutting edge technology.
Bent. O. Jensen 3 years ago
Yes, the computers got confused if women wore nylon stockings. The static electricity was sufficient to distract the sensitive computer.
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I'll bet this woman engineer never got an ounce of credit for what she did.
SarDemMin 3 years ago
In 1958? I don't they were past the shock of seeing women in workforce, doing a "man's job". /s
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Bad Asterisk 3 years ago
Is it sad I'm happier just because the caption states "an engineer" like it's a normal thing and not made a big deal about gender?
Dee 3 years ago
I noticed that too Bad Asterisk, and feelings can be complicated and nuanced but in this moment I’m inclined to just enjoy this bit of satisfaction.
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“A decade ago, we didn’t talk to robots. Today, many of us do. Siri and Alexa are some of the more common bots, but we already interface with non-human characters regularly. As technology advances, including augmented reality and mixed reality, I think we can expect that entertainment will be something we can engage with off of the screen, but out in the world, with characters and stories we can engage with throughout the day, or throughout our houses.”
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Christopher Bowers 3 years ago
Wonder if taking a bite of it wikl make you taller, like the actual story?
Fraxinus excelsior 3 years ago
I don't think I'd like to try, even if it said "eat me"
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Elora Danan 3 years ago (edited)
That's literally the point. It's a fitting coincidence.
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DrGirlfriend 3 years ago
I hate online shopping if we bring stores back we should encourage this style doorway
Katie Bear 2 years ago
While I DO understand why we changed to modern store design; this design is flipping awesome, and I wish we still had designs like this..
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Robert T 3 years ago
I still remember the mobile library that came to our school periodically.
spirit wolf 3 years ago
Me too.. it was one of the most delightful bits about boarding school. The one that came to us also sold little books, stickers and stationaries... such happy days.
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Agamemnon Padar 3 years ago
In Germany we had these library buses until 2015 coming to our district.
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Kitty Purry 3 years ago
Hers is an amazing story. Pretty effed up her own cousin Queen Elizabeth I imprisoned her for several years before beheading her. She was the mother of King James, as in King James of the Bible translation.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Ah yes, but she was a rival to the throne, and Elizabeth couldn't have that. Her Tudor blood shone through.
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Epiphonia 3 years ago
The weirdly humanoid face with “A Catte” printed around it is killing me
Mary Rogers 3 years ago
I think that's how they portrayed all animals back then, with humanoid faces.
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Cara G 3 years ago (edited)
What I find most interesting about these is the spelling that Mary chose. She embroidered all of them in Latin, "a catte". At the time of her imprisonment in England (1569-1587), Latin was the default language in Europe. Mary, OTOH, primarily spoke French, being raised in the French court and actively ruling there with her first husband, King Francis II. This suggests that she wanted these to be able to be interpreted/enjoyed by anyone. Mary was also a skilled spymistress who wrote her own codes and ciphers and created intricate tamper-evident patterns in her letters. This is what caused her downfall when not one but three plots to assassinate Elizabeth were discovered this way. I have to wonder if these contained a secret message somewhere in them. She had all sorts of tricks.
Birma Gustafsson 3 years ago
Queen Mary of Scots is a longer and more intricate story than just being imprisoned, beheaded and mother of King James. She was set to be the Queen of France - due to marriage with Dauphin - Scotland, and also England, if Queen Elisabeth I died without an heir, but her first husband died, so she returned to Scotland to be Queen there, married an idiot who murdered her italian secretary and got murdered himself, mayby on Marys instigation. She got baby James from this marriage, which her brother took over to keep safe, while she was captured and forced into a third marriage, which she escaped, she fled to England because she made everyone angry with her, pleaded for help from Elisabeth, who couldn't trust her motives, since shhe repeatedly voiced her claim to the throne of England, so Elisabeth felt she had to inprison her while she was in England. Mary couldn't return to Scotland, so she became a very serious problem for Elisabeth. Readable history for the curious.
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Goth mouse (they/them) 3 years ago
Why is there a fairy playing a trumpet by farting into it?!! 🤣
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
I didn't even see it until I seen your comment I seen the fairy but didn't pay attention to what he was doing. Oh Lord. I zoomed in looks so werid.
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Rainyrose 3 years ago
Ikr? Imagine hanging that on your wall and some important person asks u for an explanation about the fairy
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Almarako94 3 years ago
With all the idiots unable to not park their damn e-scooter in the middle of the sidewalk, it seems really handy.
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Adam 3 years ago
This movie is a classic. The band named after the character Ludo, is also amazing.
KvotheBloodless 3 years ago
"Love me cancerously, like a salt-sore soaked in the sea..."
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Andrew Keane 3 years ago
I heard it was a rocky relationship and they split up not too long afterwards.
natalie cohen 3 years ago
Well he’s the reason it’s everyone’s favorite. ❤️
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Irish Lassie 3 years ago
Loved her in Once Upon a Time in America with DeNiro, Pesci, Woods! Should definitely watch the long version of the movie (4+ hrs)!!
Marja Berisa 3 years ago
Jennifer Connelly is among my favourite actors - so talented and timelessly beautiful. And her performance in "Requiem for a Dream' was chillingly brilliant!
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Robert T 3 years ago
It's designed to make it difficult to judge the size and shape of the object rather than to make it invisible. It is a kind of disruptive camouflage.
Wilf 3 years ago
Less about the size and shape, but more about making an estimation of the ships bearing difficult to determine. Guns during this period were laid using optical rangefinders and a primitice computer, so speed and bearing- which estimates where a ship will be by the time the shot falls were considerably more important than size of the target. Artillery was about accurately calculating the greatest probability of a hit. And during wwi the Royal Navy considered 5 percent to be the absolute best the very latest battleships could manage.
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Miles Mawyer 3 years ago
I love these pictures, but they sure do give me a headache. very cool.
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
Conceived by Norman Wilkinson (shown), at best, it was a small advantage. https://www.history.com/news/dazzle-camouflage-world-war-1 Screen-Sho...b2-png.jpg 
Fraxinus excelsior 3 years ago
I believe the re-did some of these historic ships for the centenary.
Jonny Chevalier 2 years ago
WOW!!! that's confusing to torpedoes.. if they had any in those days
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I'm Kid A 3 years ago
It come with a whack-a-mole mallet and tiny spyglass?? Who's gonna be like "Hark, I see-eth a vampire not but twenty metres yonder!" "Only twenty metres?! surely you jest, Hezekiah, let me take out my pirate-telescope and search for such beasts!... Ah yes, 'tis true! No matter, we shall pound the stake into the fiend's heart with our trusty mallet!"
Mary Elliott 3 years ago
This was a tourist trinket, bought as a novelty by travelers in areas associated with vampire legends. They were not taken seriously even at the time.
Chris H 3 years ago
Sounds dubious to me. The belief in Dracula style vampires is late 19c, as popularised by Stoker, with earlier beliefs being more akin to a modern Zombie. Genuine belief in vampires was not widespread in western Europe and north America, especially among those rich enough to travel. These kits seem to me to have more in common with Frankenstein than Dracula, as they are appear to be composites of unrelated artifacts animated by an artificial narrative...
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
Not real. Sorry. These have been investigated thoroughly and though purported to have been sold to 'Late Victorian era tourists traveling to Transylvania after reading Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' none are older than the 1930s. https://blogs.bl.uk/english-and-drama/2014/11/history-at-stake-vampire-slaying-at-the-british-library.html https://gizmodo.com/the-true-story-behind-those-antique-vampire-hunting-1658820382
Lily Mae Kitty 3 years ago
fake! these are always fake. no one actually made them until they realized they're easy to fake and sell to dumb people.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
This is pretty awesome and I want one... for display purposes only of course
Ali Sherlock 3 years ago
*time out from biting me* I just need to go get my kit, be back in a moment sir
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Torben Møller-Nielsen 3 years ago
The Dane Lorenz Peter Elfred Freuchen was a larger than life explorer, journalist, actor, resistance fighter and much more. His life would make an excellent story for a great Hollywood picture.
DrGirlfriend 3 years ago
Omg this guy is amazing, instead of remaking the same fifteen movies since the 60's this would be a great new story that Disney will eventually buy and ruin like they do everything.
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AnneFromAccounting 3 years ago
Y'know, you hardly ever hear that nowadays amiright?
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The Redhead 3 years ago
And if you fall & break a leg while wearing those it can also be used as a splint until you get to the doctor.
Perfumista Perfumista 3 years ago
But you would have looked awesome doing it
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Vasana Phong 3 years ago
I didn’t realize Tahitian treat has been around that long, not a lot of stores carry this
Randy Klefbeck 2 years ago
I must be old. I remember the Canada Dry products, as well as the Gatorade, A & W, and King Kooler.
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Stephen Smith 3 years ago
The “wide limousine” was just one of longtime custom car impresario Jay Ohrberg’s crazy concoctions, which spanned 2.5 cars wide and 30 feet long. Powered by two ’75 Cadillac FWD engines with eight wheels per side, the limo had to be disassembled to be transported from show to show. Amazingly, each half could be driven separately.
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Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 3 years ago
And 99% of the times are Smoke in the Water's intro
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Karen Grace 3 years ago
I remember those! My mom wouldn't get us one as she said they were impractical.
Terri Robinson 3 years ago
Don't laugh, I still have my black mushroom stool from the 80's and still in use. I sit on it to put on my shoes in the bedroom. Still in good condition.
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𝖊𝖆 3 years ago
Immediately recognisable through her profile, same striking chin. Wow, genetics is crazy
keighterz 3 years ago
I read somewhere that you can have traits from someone in your family as far back as nine generations. We have a photo of my great grandfather as a child that looks identical to my niece at the same age.
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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Be...our...guest! Be our guest! Put our service to the test. Tie a napkin 'round your neck, cherie, and we'll provide the rest.
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Desiree Cretan 3 years ago
Funny that the lava lamp didn't sell very well until it was feature in Barbarella with Jane Fonda. Very bizarre movie.
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Desiree Cretan 3 years ago
I'm dying for one of this, i'm a nerd for vintage art deco furniture!
Nazda Pokmov 3 years ago
I had a Philco that was not square...but roundishlike this in the early 60's.
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Robert McKenzie 3 years ago
I can't believe Sony made so many models, let alone other brands! Techmoan has some fascinating videos on YouTube about these.
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Marques 3 years ago
Really it was dying giant, and his last good deed was to make sure this building does not fall down.
nobodyever 3 years ago
Or it’s the other way round, maybe it’s coming down together.
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I'm id be pissssed getting that water view then having it blocked BY A GIANT FFFFFING HAND ....OH NOOOOOOO
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I'm Kid A 3 years ago
I was scrolling, not looking at the captions, and went "Holy, *insert phrase that BP will censor*, is that Spock?!? Wai -- wait, in Jurassic Park?!?" and was not disappointed. What a wonderful conglomeration of talent.
Dre Mosley 3 years ago (edited)
Probably my fav adaption of the story. I loved the original and even enjoyed the '93 version, but this is my fav.
Tiny Dancer 3 years ago
That's whatever you call a three-layer bit o' thinking woman's crumpet right there, baby. I was 14 at the time, just starting my lifelong crush on Donald Sutherland. Yeah, I know, kind of creepy, but true, lol!
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RedMarbles 3 years ago
Looks like an adult was riding the boar judging from that stirrup length. Maybe that's what the boy is mad about.
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Guile main 3 years ago
We just found the Pharoah, we just found the Pharoah, we just found the Pharoah, I wonder what he's done
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Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
Grace Jones was f*****g amazing. Mayday was a really interesting character. And don't get me started on Tim Curry as the Lord of Darkness. Just mesmerizing. Absolutely perfect casting and incredible make up.
Daffydillz' Cold Contagious 3 years ago
You're absolutely right! A View To A Kîll is one of my top 3 favorite Bond movies and Legend was a fantastic movie also. I love them both very much 💕. Idk how I missed this post a month ago, I just found it near the top in the Most Recent column, forgive me for being late to the party...
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"James Bond classic 'A View to a Kill'? They lost me at "classic".
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Amanda Rose 3 years ago
Reminds me of how my great aunt Dagmar sketched a chicken treble clef in a recipe book she put together. Apparently chickens make for inspirational sketches.
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General Anaesthesia 3 years ago
People with a shopping list like that shined their employers' shoes/boots every day.
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Luca Giordano 3 years ago
hahaha. Pappa Mia. here we go again. My My, How can I resist you. Pappa mia, here we go again. My my, blow up another Death Star!
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Indosidius 3 years ago
Thank goodness this was rejected. Imagine wearing this on a desert planet. Sand gets everywhere.
Guile main 3 years ago
And you know what they say about sand in Star Wars
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CanadianaKa 2 years ago
NGL, that has a better ring to it than "He's legumes!"
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Kay Lee LoPresti 3 years ago (edited)
His eyes remind me of Paul Rudd. Who, strangely enough, I could see wearing this.
Stimpy 3 years ago
You paid 1 dollar per nut for the privilege of slowly seeing him get more and more naked
Stimpy 3 years ago
Also it was hilarious to throw him into the monkey enclosure
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Collin Lyle 3 years ago
My cat already thinks she's an opera singer. Can't let her see this photo ever. She'll insist on having a costume made for her.
Candi Cabaniss 3 years ago
That photo was at the Library of Congress this summer as a window sun shield.
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erinmophila_gibsonii 3 years ago
It looks like one of those swallow nests built of spit and mud 🤷♀️
Laura Jackson 3 years ago
I just keep thinking about all the times I ran into the house as a kid to hear my parents yell to not slam the door. One slam here and you'll never have to worry about it again!
Theoretical Empiricist 3 years ago (edited)
"And next up on 'House Flippers International'..."
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Jack Holt 3 years ago
My only criticism is that I don't see many open mouths. If my black cat is anything to go by, they'd all be making a ruckus
Xandra 3 years ago
There's an older Romanian mystery/crime book, "320 Black Cats". There's a part in which the old lady refuses to help (the bad guys) until her lost black cat is found, so the tough bad guys round up all the black cats they can find. You know about herding cats... Anyway, it's a hilarious scene (and a good book, but I don't imagine it's translated).
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TheQueenZ 3 years ago
If only the food trucks delivered! Then my life would have meaning!
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albernistuff 4sale 3 years ago
I am -just- old enough to remember milk, bread, eggs delivery's. You could even get some butcher deliveries on a schedule.
Max Robitzsch 3 years ago
Except the deliveryman doesn't have a uniform because he's a "self-employed" "contractor".
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tara 3 years ago (edited)
That one is so goofy....they all look happy though! Especially the one on the bottom right.
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*cries in gay* 3 years ago (edited)
the ones of cats also look ridiculous(just look up medieval cat paintings on BP)
I'm Kid A 3 years ago
The first looks like something not completely unlike a wombat. So... bonus points, I guess.
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Aunt Riarch 3 years ago
My nan said there were Hitler versions in ww2, but they were too expensive
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Dan Flo 3 years ago (edited)
"We All Have Buoyancy Control Down Here" does not have the same creepy vibe to it though
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Synsepalum 3 years ago
I've been to Aquarena Springs! There were only mermaids and Ralph, the swimming pig, though. No clowns. Thankfully.
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Got Banned But Now I'm Back 3 years ago
We were really all fast like lightning! :P
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Randolph Croft 3 years ago
I remember these. I used to sell martial-arts equipment - boring stuff for training, mostly. One guy did order a pair of these.
Katy McMouse 3 years ago
Oh no. Oh no. Oh absolutely no. I'm not able to unsee that much at one time.
Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
"Hey dude, how- ooooof!" Rude! He doesn't even have a knife or a gun.
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T. Unnamable 3 years ago
Electrical banana, is going to be the very next craze... electrical banana, is bound to be the very next phase... they call me Mellow Yellow... (quite rightly)
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TheQueenZ 3 years ago
Yeah pretty sure there are a couple of psychopaths in there. Yikes.
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Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
Apparently the director didn't brief the actors in advance which is why they reacted the way they did - apparently several of them upchucked .... bloody good film.
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Mrs S 3 years ago
How do we know that they are dancing to a satanic tune. Looks like ring around the rosie to me
OneHappyPuppy 3 years ago
Aand the moment I saw this pic, Nickelodeon my son is currently watching starts playing "44 cats"
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Aunt Riarch 3 years ago
I've got a pair (not these exact ones) plain green one side and floral the other. From House of Zana in Darlington. Fabulous.
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Karen Grace 3 years ago
Nowadays that could get you shot. I mean, in dim lighting that looks a lot more threatening than a cell phone.
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Marley Nachi 3 years ago
the bullet trains now are actually magnet pulled, so it's not completely wrong...
Khara Mei 3 years ago
Most bullet trains are specialised electric rolling stock on specialised standard gauge rail track. There are only three (I think:, in S. Korea and China) mag-lev lines running currently with r&d continuing for others.
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Guess "that" hand signal could have meant "let's take the train"...
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Nathan Pogorzala 3 years ago
Nelson Mendela looks like an uruk hai from the Lord of the Rings on his day off.
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Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I love old agricultural photos. I have a heap from my grandparents' family, rural Victoria, Australia 1920s onwards. Mostly grape picking and horses.
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The Redhead 3 years ago
This goes to everyone who thought they had it rough carrying a regular box tv
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Gretchen Stutzman 3 years ago
There's a guy out here in Ohio that built 2 of those on his land. It was always cool to pass by the "spaceships" as a kid.
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Collin Lyle 3 years ago
Just your friendly neighborhood sleep paralysis demons stopping by to check on you.
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Upstaged75 2 years ago
Same! It's confusing to look at. What about the tiny keys in the corner? I did manage to figure out the pump organ, so it might not be too bad to learn. :)
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It's very old leather - it's probably degraded by time as well.
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I saw one of these for sale on Market Place or Kijiji at a criminally low price....not as nice as this, and no stool.
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Dan Flo 3 years ago
Yes, and that young age, he actually did give a fork.
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Na Schi 3 years ago (edited)
Just a side sidenote to this stunning picture. Although it carries high Barbarella vibes it is not older than the mid 90s judging by the license plate 😉
IDK_Something 3 years ago
Found this gem, same model, same shoot, posted in 2015. https://twitter.com/ladylucielatex/status/628603722734665728
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Jan Puckett 3 years ago
now when I come home drunk, does this make it easier or twice as difficult?
Kate 3 years ago
More difficult. Stoned, on the other hand, it'd make perfect sense.
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Paulo Antonio Moreira 3 years ago
https://apureguria.com/america-do-sul/brasil/6-atracoes-em-bichinho/
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Nathan Pogorzala 3 years ago
Everyone just seemed to make s**t up back in the Victorian Era. Like ovaries flying out going over 12 mph kind of stuff.
Lorraine R 3 years ago
So I guess 'whiskers' means facial hair growing from anywhere except the chin. Never saw that distinction before.
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Laura Jackson 3 years ago
I remember my cousin had one. Well, until he kept poking me with it repeatedly and I took it from him, slapped him over the head with it, then threw it over the side of the hill they lived on into a large copse of trees. The poking stopped that day!
Dog Lover 3 years ago
Um…..ok. Are we not going to mention that it looks like another part of the male anatomy? (Sarcasm)
David Martin 3 years ago
I used to have one of these way back when...I wish I'd known then how popular they would become, I'd have taken better care of mine and held onto it
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Dorothy Stovall 3 years ago
Still loved that middle handset. So comfortable to use. I guess I'm officially old. SMH.
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Sammie 19 3 years ago
My eldest daughter got 1. It couldn't cope with the cat hair (my daughter has 3 cats). It would start, freak out a little and then go back to the charger. She figured out that it was "bothered" by all the cat hair around. Then the cats thought it looked good to lie on, probably warm, so started sleeping on it. It never moved again. After about 2 weeks my daughter gave up on it and carried on using her normal hoover. My daughter said it was totally crazy, as if it been programmed to dislike cat hair.
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Freddie Torsten 3 years ago
I wonder if Astrid Lindgren got royalty from that? Probably not, she was known for never giving away the rights to her characters
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Karen Grace 3 years ago
Back then it would have been cow brains. Nowadays, since mad cow disease, you have to settle for Pig brains
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kath morgan 3 years ago
I have seen people out in parks with small portable covered baby pens this summer, she was clearly onto something.
Sammie 19 3 years ago
Jeez people. My eldest would sit with the laundry basket on her for ages. First time I did it she was 8 months old and I was 5 months pregnant. I sat her in the bathroom with me while I was using the toilet and put the basket over her to make her laugh. She thought it was hilarious and wanted it all the time. She'd sit under it all the time if I let her and if it wasn't in the same room as she was when we got up she'd have a massive tantrum until I gave it to her and she'd put it over her by herself.
Karen Grace 3 years ago
That looks awful! With a mother like that the kid probably looked out of bars later in life too.
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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Did they just make too much of that particular green paint in the '50s and '60s? It's everywhere.
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Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Before they started doing skin grafts by stitching your arm to your face until the skin was viable...
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RedBadgerCan'tSwim 3 years ago
Rented from a zoo specifically for the photo shoot. https://arthive.com/publications/4104~Famous_artists_and_their_pets
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Khara Mei 3 years ago
It's in the public domain, fully digitised and available online at the Internet Archive via the Library of Congress. Have fun :) https://archive.org/details/dictionnaireinfe00coll_1
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Bruno Duarte 3 years ago
Now it's the size of the doughnut getting smaller "cough cough Krispy Kreme chough"
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Leoninus Fate 3 years ago
For EVERYONE, they mean its a fart that goes through the front of a lady's private parts, if you still don't understand then google it, if you can't do that then you're under like 7 years old and I'm judging your parents
Jerry Lane 3 years ago
Ah, no… “Queef” means air released from female genitals (American English).
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Katy McMouse 3 years ago
Try doing that Jon Cussak stunt from "Say Anything" with that behemoth.
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Charlotte 3 years ago
We still have that in the Netherlands. It's called "figuurworst" and depicts bears, clowns, etc.
Khara Mei 3 years ago
This is just a Billy Roll, a type of pork luncheon meat. The sign has been poorly photoshopped. Let's give you all the original picture. roll-63301...119bdd.jpg 
Bob La Capra 3 years ago
This will be my go-to insult. "You, sir, are an absolute meat clown!"
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
We have a similar one in Australia, just not so scary. devon-smil...e087cb.jpg 
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Tiny Dancer 3 years ago
"They got no human grace, they're bears without a face ..." With apologies to Billy Idol.
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tara 3 years ago
I didn't understand your teary face at this adorable picture, so I looked it up :( Sometimes I hate people so much.
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I think it's an utter disgrace that when they admit that Laika died, they originally claimed that they euthanized her. How dare they.
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