Well, the cold, cold, cold spell the weather forecasters have been predicting for the past week or so has still not arrived. Instead, we’ve been blessed with the arrival of merely a cold spell. We awoke to a smattering of wet snow on Saturday which looked fairly pretty as it was coming down but which melted more or less the moment it hit the ground. Everywhere is still muddy as distinct from frozen which, in my view, would be preferable. If it is going to be cold it might as well be very, very cold – I could do without the mud and sludge. Continue reading “13 January 2012”
Old Advertisements
Dad sent me the following selection of old print advertisements the other day. They make interesting reading and provide a fascinating insight into the ways in which we and society have changed in the last forty or fifty to a hundred years. I wonder if, in a similar time span, we will look back on the current crop of advertisements with a similarly bemused outlook. My personal favourites: Cocaine toothache drops (what’s not to like), guns as suitable Christmas gifts, the tapeworm diet (as mentioned here before) and how television benefits your children. Click an image to see a larger version.
13 January 2013 – Amusements
This came from Dad:
Two hillbillies walk into a restaurant. While having a bite to eat, they talk about their moonshine operation.
Suddenly, a woman at a nearby table, who is eating a sandwich, begins to cough. After a minute or so, it becomes apparent that she is in real distress. One of the hillbillies looks at her and says,
‘Kin ya swallar?’
The woman shakes her head no.
Then he asks, ‘Kin ya breathe?’
The woman begins to turn blue and shakes her head no.
The hillbilly walks over to the woman, lifts up her dress, yanks down her drawers and quickly gives her right butt cheek a lick with his tongue.
The woman is so shocked that she has a violent spasm and the obstruction flies out of her mouth.
As she begins to breathe again, the Hillbilly walks slowly back to his table.
His partner says, ‘Ya know, I’d heerd of that there ‘Hind Lick Maneuver’ but I ain’t niver seed nobody do it!’ Continue reading “13 January 2013 – Amusements”