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Showing posts with label Insects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Insects. Show all posts
Monday, August 04, 2014
Thursday, February 20, 2014
....And meanwhile in Sochi....
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| Sochi is running out of pillows http://www.vocativ.com/02-2014/sochi-running-pillows/ |
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| The honey is so fresh, it's still got bees in it! |
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| People like me will never get a break in Sochi. |
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| Yuk! |
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| Every hotel room has these. I think the top left gizmo is a closed circuit radio. In Stalin days, the Soviet Union made them mandatory in every apartment and hotel room and ran a wired feed of the main government radio channel. Over the air radio wasn't made legal in the Soviet Union again until after World War II. North Korea still uses a similar system and as I've heard it from my Russian friends, you could turn them down to a low volume, but you could NEVER completely turn them off. |
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| This is not beer. Or tea. Or apple juice. Or that either. It is water. |
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| This picture of Putin is the closest you'll ever get to a TV in some hotel rooms. |
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| Watch for open manholes. |
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| This is not bottled water. |
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| The Canadian team housing: Feels like home? |
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| Doors that lock from the outside. |
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| Helpful.... |
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Cricket Records
Someone once asked me about Cricket Records (as they always seem to turn up in any random box of musty old 45s and this label design is iconic, if the actual music garbage with modern kids)
Yes, they were a children's record label for 45 and 78 RPM records and they were an early product of Pickwick Records, a $1.98 budget record label of the '50s and '60s. In fact, Cricket was certainly the very last record label in America to regularly press 78 RPM records, well into the '60s (and by some reports, until 1968!)
Yes, they were a children's record label for 45 and 78 RPM records and they were an early product of Pickwick Records, a $1.98 budget record label of the '50s and '60s. In fact, Cricket was certainly the very last record label in America to regularly press 78 RPM records, well into the '60s (and by some reports, until 1968!)
Thursday, February 07, 2013
Forgotten Candy
Snik Snak (1968-1977) Snik-Snak was M&M/Mars answer to the hallowed
(and much more successful) Kit Kat franchise of Nestle International
(however through some long standing arrangement, Kit Kats are made by
Hershey in the US.)
Hose Nose (1980s) This is a candy dispenser that looks like a nose that you strap to your face. It oozes candy slime and they encourage you to stick out your tongue and catch the drips from the nose (I'll bet you're all screaming "EWWW!!!!" right now.) Some of the slogans: “It’snot what you think”, “candy slime filled”, “drippy”, and “catch it on your tongue”. Yes, this candy encourages you to eat candy snot. And unless you're 10 years old, VERY forgettable....
Archie McPhee Gummy Maggots (1990s) Another gross candy. I’ve never heard another human being say - not even Andrew Zimmern. “Mmmm, these maggots are delicious!” Maybe Zimmern has said this, but I’ve never made it more than ten minutes into his show before violently barfing in the trash can and changing channels. (I’m more of a Guy Fieri/Adam Richman type of guy.)
Abba Zaba (1920-Present) Still made, but rarely seen east of the Rockies
Lik-M-Aid (1965-1982) This candy came with vanilla cream flavoured compressed sugar "dipping" sticks. Original flavours were Cherry, Grape and Orange (later Lime.) The name was changed to "Fun Dip" and they're now a part of Wonka's candy empire.
More here: http://candyaddict.com/blog/
Hose Nose (1980s) This is a candy dispenser that looks like a nose that you strap to your face. It oozes candy slime and they encourage you to stick out your tongue and catch the drips from the nose (I'll bet you're all screaming "EWWW!!!!" right now.) Some of the slogans: “It’snot what you think”, “candy slime filled”, “drippy”, and “catch it on your tongue”. Yes, this candy encourages you to eat candy snot. And unless you're 10 years old, VERY forgettable....
Archie McPhee Gummy Maggots (1990s) Another gross candy. I’ve never heard another human being say - not even Andrew Zimmern. “Mmmm, these maggots are delicious!” Maybe Zimmern has said this, but I’ve never made it more than ten minutes into his show before violently barfing in the trash can and changing channels. (I’m more of a Guy Fieri/Adam Richman type of guy.)
Abba Zaba (1920-Present) Still made, but rarely seen east of the Rockies
Lik-M-Aid (1965-1982) This candy came with vanilla cream flavoured compressed sugar "dipping" sticks. Original flavours were Cherry, Grape and Orange (later Lime.) The name was changed to "Fun Dip" and they're now a part of Wonka's candy empire.
More here: http://candyaddict.com/blog/Wednesday, October 17, 2012
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