Whatever use may be ultimately found for the North Pole, up to the present it has only been used for advertising purposes.
From This Giddy Globe, 1919 by Oliver Herford
Tag: Funny
Doesn’t Have a Leg to Stand On
Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California, February 15, 1935 Continue reading “Doesn’t Have a Leg to Stand On”
The Black Sea, 1919
We will leave Russia as quickly as possible. Watch your Steppe!
From This Giddy Globe, 1919 by Oliver Herford
Happy Easter!
Serve the Nuts
Myrna Loy in The Thin Man (1934)
A Night of Horror, 1886
(Edited for length… Mr Oufle, hosting a party at carnival time, and quite drunk, decides to wear his son’s masquerade costume, which was a combination of a suit of green and gold, intended as a foresters dress; a costume of the time of Francois L, covered with spangles; and last, but not least, a bear-skin suit, so contrived that the wearer of it was covered with fur from head to foot, and looked precisely like a black-bear escaped from a traveling caravan.)
Gilderfluke Perfected Locomotive, 1897
A spoof article written in the December issue of Locomotive Engineering, A Practical Journal of Railway Motive Power and Rolling Stock, by Eli Gilderfluke
The scope of this elaborate joke can be seen in the various components described below, Ive highlighted just a few of the many jokes, not to mention, the machine in the engraving would not be able to move thanks to the configuration of the wheels (52-57). Continue reading “Gilderfluke Perfected Locomotive, 1897”
Too Foxy, 1937
Modern Maidens, Jan 8, 1937
Survival of the Fittest, 1930s
From Ballyhoo Magazine, 1930s, art by Russell Paterson
Get Your Hoe Ready!
United Cigar Stores applauded the 1918 DST bill.
