Here we have a fabulous ad from the Chicago Tribune, 25 Oct. 1891, featuring Laloo Laloo – the “living boy and a half” who had “2 Bodies with 1 Head” and was, thankfully for Laloo (I guess), “alive.”
Ah, Kohl & Middleton’s…the great Chicago ‘curiosity’ museum…
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Additionally, just as a little note, Jack Goldie – a blackface [...]
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Stricken with the history bug again…
Posted in Classic Advertising, History, Things you never see on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A half-grass, half-clay tennis court
Posted in Things you never see on May 2, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Federer vs Nadal, each using the surface on which they are best. This is a great image. And, yes; it is real.
hmmm…
Posted in Baseball, Things you never see on May 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In Jayson Stark’s typical column on weird stats so far in the baseball season (a column which devolved into essentially just a discussion of the Yankees record), he drops this line on us out of the blue:
“But since our Starbucks mugs are always half full around here…”
Bad joke? Or unexpected form of product placement?
I can’t tell, but [...]
Invisibility
Posted in Things you never see on January 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Just wanted to draw everyone’s attention to this picture, because I honestly can’t recall ever having seen its like before.
Over on slate, in the middle of this stream of valueless yakuza pictures (I say valueless, because half of these pictures are just men in suits and could be anybody), I found the following photo:
On the [...]
