Over at Dark Roasted Blend there’s a gallery of Tsarist and Soviet ads, including the above one for juice. Any juice. Some of them are for products and not brands — demand more!
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Husbandness
Em made me do this. I have no idea what it means.
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104 As a 1930s husband, I am |
The living dead
Feliberto Carrasco, 81, shocked his family and friends at the weekend when he woke up at his wake. He had been found limp and cold and so his loved ones made arrangements with a funeral home in the town of Angol, Chile.
The man who “rose from the dead” said he was not in any pain, and only asked for a glass of water.
Local radio also surprised listeners by announcing a correction to Carrasco’s death announcement, saying the news had been premature.
You can tell I'm a geek…
…when I post stories like this.
A US TV presenter says he and his team have found a series of footprints in the Everest region of Nepal resembling descriptions of the mysterious Yeti.
The presenter [Josh Gates] and his colleagues say they are “very excited”, although they are not saying they definitely believe it is the mark of the Yeti.
An excited Mr Gates described the main footprint as anthropomorphic, meaning it had human characteristics.
He said he did not believe the prints were man-made or that they came from a known animal such as a bear.
But he also said he was not sure he believed in the Yeti, and did not know what to make of it.
Casts have been taken of the prints, and these are being sent to the States to be examined.
Mmm, brains
From the “truth is stranger than fiction file”:
A 40-year-old Egyptian who checked into a hospital with a complaint that something was moving in his brains actually had seven leeches crawling inside his ears.
The patient was given a local anaesthetic and the leeches, each one measuring 2cm-long, were pulled out.
Read the full story in the Gulf News.
The man who rode his bicycle
His name is Robert Stewart, he has admitted sexual breach of the peace and has been placed on the sex offenders’ register. He was in a hostel bedroom which was unlocked by cleaners who caught him copulating with the bike.
Richard Alleyne of The Daily Telegraph notes that this is not the first time somebody has been convicted of sex with an inanimate object — an electrician was done in 1993 for having sex with pavements.
Bryony Gordon muses:
He was in his hostel room at the time, behind locked doors (staff went in when they got no response from him). It was between him and the bicycle. I’m not sure I would have called the police had I caught him riding his bike [as the hostel manager did]; probably I would have just screamed and run away and then think that maybe he was just confused by somebody who had told him that the local bike would sleep with anyone.