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History's Dumpster = GLORIOUS trash! Kitsch, music, fashion, food, history, ephemera, and other memorable and forgotten, famous and infamous pop culture junk and oddities of yesterday and today. Saved from the landfill of time...
Monday, August 12, 2013
More Old Food
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Friday, August 09, 2013
Vanishing Car Act
This is pretty amazing and cool.........
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lancashire/8030766.stm
Thursday, August 08, 2013
Wednesday, August 07, 2013
Nudie Pens
The gift for men that always says "I know you're a sex crazed pervert and I was too cheap to hire you a freaky escort. So here you are. Your secret's safe with me ;) "
Tuesday, August 06, 2013
Vintage Japanese Subway Poster
Vintage Japanese subway poster warning of the three monsters you are most likely to encounter whilst on Japanese subways: Nesshii (the sleeping monster), Asshii (the leg-crossing monster), and Shinbunshii (the newspaper-reading monster).
Monday, August 05, 2013
Sunday, August 04, 2013
The Disco Duck
"Disco Duck" Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots (1976)
"Disco Duck" Paul Vincent (1976, French Version)
"Silly Love Songs" Irwin The Disco Duck & The Wibble-Wabble Singers And Orchestra (1977)
"Macho Duck" Donald Duck (1979)
"Lui" Rupert Holmes (1980)
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Rupert Holmes is most famous for his 1979/1980 hits ""Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" and "Him". He also had a hit with the infamous "Timothy" from The Buoys
"Lui" is the French-Canadian version of "Him".
Saturday, August 03, 2013
Another Blog You Should Be Reading
If you love the strange and classic stuff you read about here in History's Dumpster. I have another treat for you: Superfluous Bloviations, an excellent blog by W. Lane Startin. You'll have lots of fun reading this. Just like I am tonight.
Cheers!,
Larry
Friday, August 02, 2013
Kudos Anita Serwacki and Cracked.com
A tip of the hat and a BIG thank you to Anita Serwacki and Cracked.com for linking to my Dora Hall blog post of last August. It was a shock yesterday looking at the record breaking page views yesterday (I usually average around 150 views a day on this thing with occasional peaks.) It was a real cool surprise. Again, thank you.
Cheers!,
Larry
http://www.cracked.com/article_20602_the-5-craziest-black-sheep-from-famous-families_p2.html
Thursday, August 01, 2013
Furniture U.S.A. Commercial
There's a back story at the beginning of this video.
But at least he's honest about himself.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
"The Ballad of John and Yoko" Percy Faith (1972)
This is the perfect example of an easy listening cover version of a song so wrong, it's actually right. And perhaps the closest Percy Faith ever came to rock n' roll.
Monday, July 29, 2013
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Aqua Dots
It seemed like a good idea.....
A kids art toy that made art out of little beads (aka "dots") and it was 2007 Toy of The Year, what could go wrong?
Well, everything.
The beads were manufactured in China and when combined with water, the chemicals did more than make art. When little kids swallowed the colourful dots that looked like candy (as little kids tend to do), and when mixed with water (or saliva) they combined to make what is known as GBH, infamously known as a "date rape" drug. Several kids were hospitalized after ingesting them. Fortunately no fatalities.
They were immediately recalled and parents rightfully began to question toys made in China and to no one's surprise, the vast majority of American toys are manufactured in China. Which is out of the jurisdiction of American regulators and where American toy corporations manufacture most of their toys because of the extremely cheap labour in manufacturing.
The product was reintroduced as Bindeez, Beados and Pixos using a non-toxic formula that was coated with a bitter tasting substance to discourage ingestion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bindeez
Friday, July 26, 2013
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