2/3/14

Science News - Your news... scienced!


New transceiver allows persons born without head bones to hear selves. Microphone sends sound
of own voice to ear. Can be switched off or destroyed to allow privacy from self.

Bank of alarms easily monitored by barely mobile man. May someday be replaced by bank of barely mobile men constantly shouting numbers.
New emergency flotation suit is boon to seasick survivors. Is inflated by vomit. Design currently
hampered by unsatisfactory buoyancy of vomit.
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1/31/14

Let's Drive Right, Pt.2 - Love.

Here are two really useful tips from 1964's Let's Drive Right on the subject of love on the road. Do them all the time.


If you have Road Trouble when you're a woman, open the hood to show the world that you know where the engine is, and that it's something enginey gone wrong with the tire. While waiting for a person to come change your tire or engine, just stare out at the world. To make help come sooner, consider tying your underpants to the door handle. This may also attract bears. The woman in the picture has taken the  precaution of wearing a helmet for extra safety.


When on a motor-car trip with a prospective consort, take the opportunity to fasten your seatbelt in a very slow and luxuriant manner. This is a very effective way of directing her attention to your weenus. During the fastening process, check back occasionally to make sure she's watching. She should be transfixed (see photo). If she fails to show interest, quickly drive to a shopping center and release her. Banging two frying pans together may help to scare her out of the car.




1/30/14

Stormy Night




Joke #1 - Disoriented, slurring, and woozy, he staggered into the road. Wilford Brimley had gotten ahold of some bad oatmeal.

Joke #2 - "No, sir. I'm sorry. We haven't got any hookers. How bout it we just drop you off at the Capitol Building?"

Joke #3 - Disoriented, slurring, and woozy, he staggered into the road, hoping the driver could spare some oxycontin... maybe in return for a "favor"? This should have been the bottom of the barrel, but for Limbaugh, this was called "Saturday".

Joke #4 - "Grandpa, this is NOT how flash mobs work!"

Joke #5 - "Please come back home, dad. I was joking. B.J. and the Bear is not cancelled."

Joke #6 - "Sir? I don't think you're allowed to park that there."

Joke #7 - "Eeew! Honey, keep driving! I'ts Carl Rove!"

Joke #8 - Ever since the government chose to regulate the sale of cheap, imported gorilla costumes, Yeti sightings had gotten more and more pathetic.

[Commenter jokes will be added to the post.    -Mgmt.]
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1/29/14

Let's Drive Right, Pt.1 - Road trouble.

The U.S. continues to receive the ultimate polar wedgie today, and no states are harder hit than The South, for whom snow is something they only see on Ice Road Truckers, but probably assumed was Photoshop. The results have been hilarious. "Millimeter upon millimeter" of terrifying snow has coated roads, and true to the nature of a generation for whom information is plentiful and basically free, they had no idea it was coming and are completely ignorant of how to handle it. As a result, cars are cartwheeling across lanes of traffic and debris arcs through the air, trailing smokey tentacles behind baffled news reporters cowering from the "falling ice pieces from the wicked, wicked clouds".

If only they'd had a copy of "Let's Drive Right", Third Edition (the one with the funniest hair), courtesy of 1964. Don't become a statistic! Let's learn what to do in case of Road Trouble!

Slow-Moving farm Equipment - Learn when to panic.

The motorist doesn't know there's anything up ahead. Bird Chirp. Hillbillies "a-hyuk" gently in the distance. A perfect afternoon.



















Still no sign of trouble. No reason to slow down. Free and clear!




















Admiring the sky. Maybe thinking about some golf later on, while accelerating kind of a lot.




















"Aaah! Dear god! Some kind of farm thing! Must apply brakes with both wing tips! Release wheel with all your might!

This motorist has made the mistake of panicking far too late. As you can see, his front wheels are already in the bed of the trailer. If only he had panicked a minute or two earlier, he could have safely plunged his car into a drainage ditch or off a bridge well in advance.

This farmer has even taken the precaution of painting a word of warning on his vehicle. "DAINGOR" is about all you need to know. His demonstrated attitudes about education mean he believes fossils were put  in the ground by Jesus to trick us. Stay safe. Panic early. Drive north as fast as you can.



1/27/14

Philco Bantam Window A/C Unit - Imagine the relief.

Most of the U.S. is getting jacked in the face again by the "Polar Vortex 2 - Electric Boogaloo". It's friggin winter all over the place out there. Safe to assume that the weather wants to kill you. You're probably sweltering under many layers of coats, shirts, carpet samples, oven mitts and anything else you could stuff under your parka. Too bad bath mats are not famous for their sweat-wicking properties. Here, have some relief with this 1957 ad for Philco (no relation) window air conditioners.

"WORLD'S FIRST TAKE_HOME AIR CONDITIONER" shouts the ad. Huh? First? According to Popular Mechanics' brief history of air conditioning, window A/C units become affordable to normal humans in The Fifties. And over at Great Achievements.org, this happened as early as 1947. What's the deal with "World's first" claim? Maybe the Philco (still no relation) Bantam was the first one you could lug home and install yourself? See that happy gent, humping his new Bantam up the walk? You know he's hot and sweaty because they loosened his tie for the shoot.

Here are some impressive numbers from the PopMech link. The first home unit of any kind appeared in 1914 in Minneapolis in the mansion of Charles Gates. It was the size of a car. In 1931, the first commercial window unit became available, and cost from $120,000 to $600,00, accounting for inflation. Jeebus!

Doesn't that make you glad you can just stick your head out a window to cool off on a day like this? Didn't think so.

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1/24/14

The Call of Shame.


Joke #1 - "Okay, kid, let's hurry it up. There's lots of us here need to call our dad to come pick us up at the police station."

Joke #2 - "Dad? Can you come pick up me and Tina, and officer Kelly and officer O'Mally at the police station? ....And... And I think I got them all a little pregnant, too."

Joke #3 - "If you are a;ready a Comcast subscriber, press one! If you have been arrested for publis indecency and are in need of retrieval at the local police station, press two!"

Joke #4 - "Dad, I may be home late tonight. About two to five years late."

Joke #5 - "Mom? Can Tina and I and a couple of cops have a sleepover tonight? No, they're not the Irish kind."

Joke #6 - "Dad! I'm in trouble! I'm at the police station. I think I got arrested for 'sure 'an it's farr too late fer some'un as yong as you two teh be out suh leet on a shcool noight'! What is that??"

Joke #7 - Once again, a wholesome school dance ends with a good kid getting picked up for crimes against humanity. Don't become a statistic. Think once. Think twice. Think "Don't commit war crimes at your school dance."

Joke #8 - Belfast, 1948. Another good kid has his future thrown into question when he is arrested on five counts of total lack of public violence, failing to insight mayhem, public sobriety, non-conspiracy to commit acts of unviolence, and not blowing up a police vehicle in any way.

Joke #9 - "Dad? Can you come pick myself, and officers Kelly and O'Mally? We, uuh... We got arrested by this one girl..."

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1/23/14

Sportsmanlike Driving, Pt 11 - Pedestrian, how do we kill thee? Let you count the way.


All right, New Drivers, it's high time you learn how you'll probably die on the road. Walking! Why? Find out!





Look at this crazy fellow. What could possess a man to march around behind a giant question mark like that?


What? He's in LOVE? Yes, it's LOVE, "The Noisy Killer." Protect yourself, citizens. Never fall in love. And if you accidentally do fall in love, get out of it, hopefully by luncheon time, when you'll be walking down to the Hammed-Burger stand at the corner, your head in a murderous cloud of Love, while you cross the road, a lamb to the slaughter. To be extra-sure, try to stay "in hate" at all times, so that even if you fall in love once, your state will then just be "normal", and still be able to fulfill your role as an Alert Pedestrian.