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An Uncomplicated Gentleman
Posted in Lifestyle, People, Photography, Quotations, tagged Age, Confessions on February 24, 2015| 7 Comments »
Trolley Sign, Sydney – “Regarding Other People’s Groceries”
Posted in Humour, Quotations, tagged Groceries, Shooping on December 15, 2014| 6 Comments »
Words From A Man Of Great Imagination
Posted in Literature, Quotations, tagged Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea on October 9, 2014| 2 Comments »
"The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed."
From “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” by Jules Verne
Text and image found at TurnOfTheCentury
Good Basic Thinking
Posted in Quotations, tagged Good sence on June 13, 2014| 2 Comments »
It’s All A Matter Of Who’s Doing What
Posted in Quotations, tagged heaven, Hell on May 24, 2014| 2 Comments »
The lure Of The Mad Men – Part 11
Posted in Advertising, Advertisments, Photography, Quotations, WW II, tagged Dictators, Hitler, Love letters, Mussolini, Police Gazette, Secret love lives on May 3, 2014| 2 Comments »
I must admit that it’s hardly the top guns among the mad men, neither among the image people nor the text people who have made the ad above. On the other hand they have zeroed down on two of the surest subjects when it comes to catching peoples interest. SEX and WW II. And combined these two are always a winner.
Who wouldn’t want to read Mussolini and Hitler’s love letters to Claretta Petacci and Eva Braun. Although the teaser text from Benito’s letter there is disappointingly tame. I’ve seen his speeches on TV and they are definitely full of piss and vinegar so one should be able to expect more from his love letters. Anyhow, I bet the Police Gazette’s sales hit the roof for that next issue.
By the way, the way the two of them look at each other on the ad one would think the love letters they wrote were to each other, and who knows, maybe that was the sensation of the century – Ted
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Hercules Poirot Says
Posted in British, Quotations, tagged Agatha Christie, BBC, Hercules Poirot on April 25, 2014| 6 Comments »
BBC has produced their final episode of “Hercules Poirot” based on Agatha Christie’s master detective. Luckily they have produced enough episodes to keep us in reruns for years on end – Ted
The Lure Of The Mad Men – Part 3
Posted in Advertising, Advertisments, Campaigns, Illustration, Quotations, tagged Mad Men, Soda, Soft drinks, Sugar on March 1, 2014| 2 Comments »
text from the ad:
How soon is too soon?
Not soon enough. Laboratories tests over the last few years have proven that babies who start drinking soda during the early formative period have much higher chance of gaining acceptance and “fitting in” during those awkward pre-teen and teen years. So, do yourself a favour. Do your child a favour. Start them on a strict regimen of soda and other sugary carbonated beverages right now. For a lifetime of guaranteed happiness – Ad for The Soda Pop Board of America
Playing on mum’s insecurity and fright at the thought of their kids not going to fit in must have seemed an easy way to get the kids hooked on soda and sugar for a lifetime to any heartless mad man. But honestly, the crap about laboratory tests was pushing it a bit to far even back then – Ted
The Lure Of The Mad Men – Intro
Posted in Advertising, Advertisments, Campaigns, Illustration, Photography, Quotations, tagged Blue Master cigarettes, Mad Men on February 15, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I guess many of you have followed “Mad Men” that TV series about an Advertising Agency back when neither commercial artists nor copy writers had any rules or regulations to hinder their blatant lies about the products they were pushing.
Since I have in parts of my working career been working at such places, old ads from that time fascinates me, so since I’ve just finished the “Popular Music History 1945 – 1980” series, I’m starting a new series featuring all the meaningless nonsense those guys managed to push.
The Mad Men had and still have a wide scale of human emotions to play upon both in images and text; Insecurity, low self-esteem, bad self-image, scare, addiction, vanity, hope, the will to belong, wishful thinking, loneliness, despair, superiority and lets be honest good old envy.
Jayne Mansfield (1933 – 1967)
Posted in Actresses, Models & starlets, Quotations, tagged American actresses, Jayne Mansfield on February 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »
"A forty-one inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee – a lot more. But most girls don’t know what to do with what they’ve got." – Jayne Mansfield
You can say what you like about Jayne Mansfield, but she sure knew how to get the best out of what she got – Ted
Marlboro Cannabis–Facts Or Fiction
Posted in Entertainment, Quotations, tagged Cannabis, Marlboro on January 24, 2014| 5 Comments »
Phillip Morris, the world’s biggest cigarette producer, announced today that they will join the marijuana legalization bandwagon and start producing marijuana cigarettes. Marketed under the brand “Marlboro M”, the cigarettes will be made available for sale through marijuana-licensed outlets in the state of Colorado, and the state of Washington when it becomes commercially legal there later this year.
Read more HERE
Annie Edson Taylor – The First Person To Survive A Trip Over Niagara Falls In A Barrel
Posted in Article, People, Quotations, tagged Adventurers, Niagara Falls on January 15, 2014| 3 Comments »
Annie Edson Taylor (October 24, 1838 – April 29, 1921) was an American adventurer who, on her 63rd birthday, October 24, 1901, became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
Desiring to secure her later years financially, and avoid the poorhouse, she decided she would be the first person to ride over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Taylor used a custom-made barrel for her trip, constructed of oak and iron and padded with a mattress. Several delays occurred in the launching of the barrel, particularly because no one wanted to be part of a potential suicide. Two days before Taylor’s own attempt, a domestic cat was sent over the Horseshoe Falls in her barrel to test its strength. Contrary to rumours at the time, the cat survived the plunge and 17 minutes later, after she was found with a bleeding head, posed with Taylor in photographs.
On October 24, 1901, her 63rd birthday, the barrel was put over the side of a rowboat, and Taylor climbed in, along with her lucky heart-shaped pillow. After screwing down the lid, friends used a bicycle tire pump to compress the air in the barrel. The hole used for this was plugged with a cork, and Taylor was set adrift near the American shore, south of Goat Island.
The Niagara River currents carried the barrel toward the Canadian Horseshoe Falls, which has since been the site for all daredevil stunting at Niagara Falls. Rescuers reached her barrel shortly after the plunge. Taylor was discovered to be alive and relatively uninjured, except for a small gash on her head. The trip itself took less than twenty minutes, but it was some time before the barrel was actually opened. After the journey, Annie Taylor told the press:“
If it was with my dying breath, I would caution anyone against attempting the feat… I would sooner walk up to the mouth of a cannon, knowing it was going to blow me to pieces than make another trip over the Fall. ”
Text: Wikipedia – Image: BoredPanda
A Wise Woman
Posted in People, Quotations, tagged Anaïs Nin on September 25, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The older I get the surer I am that Anais Nin was right. There is always more mystery. What would be the sense in getting older if it wasn’t – Ted
Zappa Wisdom
Posted in Music, People, Quotations, tagged Boring, Frank Zappa, LIFE, Miserable on April 25, 2012| 4 Comments »
I did none of that. So all right, I’m not stinking rich, but I’ve had fun all my grown life – Ted
Roses In The Rain
Posted in Music, Quotations, tagged Bruce Springsteen, Thunder Road on April 20, 2012| 3 Comments »
You can hide ‘neath your covers
And study your pain
Make crosses from your lovers
Throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain
For a saviour to rise from these streets
Well now I’m no hero
That’s understood
All the redemption I can offer girl
Is beneath this dirty hood
With a chance to make it good somehow
Hey what else can we do now ?
Except roll down the window
And let the wind blow
Back your hair
From “Thunder Road” by Bruce Springsteen
Pooh, My Childhood’s Hero
Posted in British, Entertainment, Literature, Quotations, tagged A A Milne, Christopher Robin, Pooh on April 5, 2012| Leave a Comment »
I think it was when they bought the copyrights for Winnie The Pooh that I really started to hate the Disney Company – Ted
Ursus Arctos Erectus (Look It Up ;-)
Posted in Holidays, Quotations, tagged Bears, Randy Newman, Urus Arctos on January 22, 2012| Leave a Comment »
I may go out tomorrow if I can borrow a coat to wear Seen at the nicest places where well fed faces all stop to stare Who needs money when you’re funny? Simon Smith And The Amazing Dancing Bear by Randy Newman |
The Difference Between A Dog And A Cat
Posted in Quotations, tagged Cats, Dogs on January 2, 2012| 3 Comments »
Anarchy In The Clouds
Posted in Quotations, tagged Anarchy, Eric Schmidt on December 25, 2011| Leave a Comment »