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YouTube video by Netflix Troll 2 | Official Trailer | Netflix

Megatroll. Ridiculous.

I can't f'n wait.

YouTube video by Sam Henderson #512- THE MATING URGE opening titles

I'm just doing research.

"An exploitation pot-boiler, posing as an anthropology art-film, and supposedly filmed by seventeen different cameraman in Africa, Malaya, India, Ceylon, Bali, New Guinea and New Hebrides. It is stock-and-archive footage from front-to back."

Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. Thursday, January 07, 1960. "Igoe See Banned Film on Which He Will Rule Judge Michael L. Igoe of the federal District court and his wife Wednesday attended a private showing of the film "The Mating Urge" which has been banned from Chicago theaters by the police censorship board. The distributors, Maton Films, Inc., 77 W. Washington st., have appealed the censorship board's ruling to federal District court. No date for final argument on the appeal before Judge Igoe has been set."

That judge and his wife had no choice but to watch the offending material. In private. With soft lighting and a bottle of Courvoisier.

He did if for the people!

Udo Kier, German Actor Who Appeared in ‘My Own Private Idaho,’ ‘Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein,’ Dies at 81 Udo Kier, a German actor who collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol to Lars von Trier to Madonna, died on Sunday morning. He was 81.

Oh, man. One of cinema's most reliable weirdos, and I mean that in a highly complimentary fashion. RIP.

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Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. Sun, Nov 23, 1930. Needlwork by Clotilde Image of woman hanging ruffled bag by a stap on a mirror. "These Utility Bags With Their Ruffled Edges Pleasingly Combine Practicality & Charm. What is your sewing problem? Do you have trouble in following a pattern? Do you find difficulty in making a skirt hang evenly or making a sleeve that doesn't twist? If there is anything you would like to know about these or other problems of needlework, write to Clotilde. The Tribune, Chicago, including a stamped, addressed envelope if a personal reply is desired. Utility bags made of moire, satin, or taffeta make charming gifts & are equally desirable for one's own use. These bags are unlined & are simple to make. Cut two pieces - measuring about twelve by fifteen inches. Round the lower corners. If you are not accustomed to cutting without a pattern, practice on a smooth piece of paper, maybe you will want to make the measurements slightly different. On one side of the bag stamp some delicate outline - flowers or perhaps a conventional design - & embroider using several colors. Measure entirely around the edges of the bag & buy enough inch & one-half wide ribbon to make a gathered ruffle. This ruffle is set between the edges of the bag & stitched in place when you stitch the sides together. If you have sufficient bag material you can make the ruffle of that - maybe using a selvage edge instead of putting in a hem. If you buy ribbon, a contrasting color will look well. The bag is straight across the top & turned in to make an inch & a half wide heading. A couple of nine inch pieces of quarter inch wide whalebone or anything similar should be run in a casing made by putting in a row of stitching three-eighths of an inch above where the hems are stitched. Fasten the ends & sew ribbon loops to hang the bag up by. Sew one of those tiny flower strips that may be bought by the yard over the casing. Hang the bag at one side of your mirror"

Always with the tote bags.

As part of the 1931 documentary 'The Turn of the Tide,' Chicago Tribune war correspondent Floyd Gibbons details the 1918 Battle of Château-Thierry, including an introductory interview with General… From the Archives: 'The Turn of the Tide' with Floyd Gibbons

"One of radio's first news reporters and commentators, he was famous for a fast-talking delivery style."

Floyd Gibbons - Wikipedia

"Gibbons lost an eye after being hit by German gunfire at Château-Thierry in June 1918 while attempting to rescue an American marine. Always afterwards he wore a distinctive white patch on his left eye."

Chicago Tribune. Chicago, IL. Mon, November 20, 1933. Advertisement Sketch of a man's head. He has an eyepatch. Text: FLOYD GIBBONS "doing his bit" in The War Against Depression PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION WMAQ 7:30 TONITE

Ol' Floyd was quite a character.

PseudoPod 1004: Madame Painte: For Sale “This?” the man behind the counter says. “Why, this is Madame Painte.” The figure is short, a foot and a half tall, and squat, about the same dimensions across, composed of what might be porcelain.

Episode 1004…

“This?” the man behind the counter says. “Why, this is Madame Painte.”

Madame Painte: For Sale, by John Langan

Narrator: Ian Gordon
Host: Graeme Dunlop
Audio: Chelsea Davis

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I really hope this is fun.

Graffiti on the back of a wooden park bench in Chicago, IL, US. Black and white filter. November 20, 2025 7:07 am. Among various other stylistic letters and symbols, white text "Graffiti Looked way better in the 2000's" in marker on the end of a dark bench slat. The park is covered with leaves. A group of trees stand tall in the distance.

Everyone's a critic.

Miles City Star. Miles City, Montana. Sat, Feb 27, 1926. GOLDFISH PONDS RAIDED BY AIREDALE DOG, TEXAS Austin, Tex., Feb. 25. - (AP) - An airdale dog on the Texas capital grounds demands gold fish for his diet. As a result policemen have been ordered to kill the dog on charges of depleting the goldfish ponds. For days mystery surrounded the disappearance of the goldfish but finally a woman saw the dog catch and devour three of the fish and reported him. _______________________ MRS. COOLIDGE BETTER Washington, Feb. 25. - (AP) - Mrs. Coolidge was up and around the White House today after having been confined to bed for two days by a cold.

Look, I'm sorry 'bout yer fish, but if you come for the dog...

Also, please don't take my criticism of your muffins so harshly, Mrs. Coolidge.

Played that on a TI-99 4A way, way back.

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[Ongoing thread] New Stargate TV show

We knew it was coming!

"Amazon MGM Studios has greenlighted another series based on popular MGM IP, giving a series order to Stargate for Prime Video. The new installment in the classic sci-fi franchise comes from Martin Gero, a Stargate veteran and...."

Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. Sunday, November 23, 1930. Photo of a two-seater open cockpit with a man in the front and a "robot" in the back. The man is wearing a leather cap and pilot's goggles. He is waving. Caption: AN ELECTRICAL ROBOT GUIDES AN AIRPLANE -- Professor J. Popjie in the cockpit of his machine with a mechanical man of his own invention which operated the controls in a flight over Brighton, England.

I'm sure it won't surprise you that Radiana, the "mechanical man," was not an actual robot - there was a small woman inside operating the robot. Rumor has it, after 3 years working together, she declined a marriage proposal from magician Professor John Popjie.

Mysterious Neighbors Get ‘Under Your Feet’ In Horror Fantasy Movie From ‘The Platform’ Producer There’s more to an apartment building than meets the eye in the Spanish horror fantasy movie Under Your Feet, from writer/director Cristian Bernard. Under Your Feet stars Maribel Verdú (Pan’s Labyrint...

Pan's Labyrinth actor Maribel Verdú stars in UNDER YOU FEET, a Spanish horror fantasy described as “Rosemary’s Baby meets Hansel & Gretel” from the producer of The Platform:

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Tickets are going fast for PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE with The Horror House on November 26th🚲

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From the Congressional Club Cook Book (1927) CUSTARD PIE 3/4 cup sugar. 1 tablespoonful flour. 2 eggs, beaten. 2 1/2 cups milk. Mix sugar and flour, add a pinch of salt. Bake in single crust. Dust a little nutmeg on top after pie is baked. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Wife of the President of the United States.

In case you really need to see Mrs. Coolidge's pie...

From the Congressional Club Cook Book (1927) CORNMEAL MUFFINS 2 cups cornmeal. 1 cup flour. 1 cup sweet milk. 2 eggs, well beaten. 1/2 cup sugar. 2 tablespoons baking powder. This quantity will make 14 muffins. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Wife of the President. CORN MEAL GEMS 1 cup flour. 3 teaspoonfuls of baking powder. 1/2 cup of cornmeal. 1/2 teaspoonful of salt. 1 tablespoonful of sugar. Should be sifted and mixed together. To these dry ingredients add 3/4 cup of milk, 1 egg, well beaten, and 1 tablespoon of melted butter; bake in buttered gem pans for 25 minutes. Very good. Mrs. J. Zach Spearing, Wife of Representative Spearing (La.). IDA'S CORNMEAL MUFFINS 2 cups cornmeal and 1/2 cup flour. 1 pint milk. 2 eggs. 1/2 teaspoonful salt. 1 heaping tablespoonful sugar. 1 heaping tablespoonful lard and melt. 2 level teaspoonfuls baking powder. Beat eggs with salt and sugar and add 1 pint milk; put in cornmeal and flour and let it stand about one-half hour; then put melted lard in last and then add baking powder. Make batter consistency of cake and bake at once in greased muffin pans. Mrs. Richard Yates, Wife of Representative Yates (Ill.)

An abundance of cornmeal muffin recipes. I'm told abundance is hip.

I'll go with Yates' recipe because it's from IL.

In 1888, Yates married Ellen Wadsworth, also a native of Jacksonville, IL.

Was Ida your mother, Ellen? Your governess? Old Nanna Wadsworth?

I need to know.

Chicago Tribune. Chicago, IL. Sun, Oct 23, 1927. SECRETS OF COOLIDGE'S MUFFINS REVEALED IN CAPITAL COOKBOOK Washington, D.C., Oct. 22. -- (UP) -- How to make the muffins served at the White House breakfasts is one of the recipes included in the Congressional Club Cook Book, which will be off the press the first week in November. Mrs. Coolidge contributed this one, also a recipe for custard pie, and prominent personages throughout the world, including kings, queens, presidents and prominent Americans, have disclosed their culinary secrets. Particularly choice and unusual recipes were received from the King of Spain, Queen Marie of Roumania and the president of Austria. Mrs. Dawes, wife of the Vice President, whose table is famed for its daintiness, also has contributed. Mrs. William Howard Taft is another noted hostess who has supplied recipes. Wives of Supreme court associate justices and governors also have aided in compiling the 2,500 formulas.

I don't think I need to know about Coolidge's muffins.

I should be delving into Queen Marie's recipes.

The Washington Herald. Washington, District of Columbia. Tue, Jun 29, 1926. Death Mocks Doctors' O.K. Police were striving, early this morning, to penetrate the mystery which surrounded 60-year-old Jacog Flannigan, 521 Eighteenth St. N.E., who walked into Casualty Hospital last night, asked to be examined, and then, despite the facts that physicians pronounced him in the prime of health, lapsed into unconsciousness, dying shortly after 10 o'clock. The man, according to police, said he had been sent to the hospital by a Dr. Baker, of Hyattsville, and spoke of having been in an automobile accident. Dr. Baker could not be located, when the man became unconscious, and repeated examinations by the hospital staff failed to reveal any malady. Investigation at Hyattsville showed that a man named Michael Flannigan, who lives on P St. N.W., had been injured here early in the evening in an automobile accident, but had refused treatment, and he was located at his home at 10:30 hale and hearty.

Mr. Flannigan cleared concussion protocol and was sent back in, accompanied by a roar from the crowd.

Hale and hearty ain't what it used to be.

Times Herald. Washington, District of Columbia. Tue, Jun 29, 1926. LAUGHTER BRINGS DEATH An aged man laughed himself to death at Casualty Hospital last night. Jacob Flannigan, 60, of Bladensburg, Md., was the victim of the malady, which has proved a baffling puzzle to physicians and which the District coroner will endeavor to solve at an autopsy today at the District Morgue. Stricken At Home Flannigan was stricken with fits of laughter at his home yesterday and Dr. W. B. Baker of Hyattsville was called. Realizing that the illness was a strange one, Dr. Baker sent the man to Casualty Hospital, asking physicians there to observe him and diagnose the case. The aged man was hilarious when he reached the hospital, and physicians were unable to control his laughter. After a while, however, Flannigan's laughter gradually subsided, but ended only when the man lapsed into unconsciousness about 3 p.m. He did not regain consciousness until 9 p.m. and immediately began laughing again. The merriment continued until unconsciousness came to him again, about 9:30 o'clock. Fifteen minutes later he was dead. Because of his lapses into unconsciousness, physicians at Casualty were unable to make a diagnosis of the case. The coroner, therefore, ordered an autopsy.

The merriment continued until unconsciousness came to him again, about 9:30 o'clock. Fifteen minutes later he was dead.

Battle Creek Moon-Journal. Battle Creek, Michigan. Tue, Jun 29, 1926. GOOD NEWS KILLS HIM. Washington, June 29. -- (U.P.) -- Jacob Flannigan, 60, walked into a hospital here, said he had been in an automobile accident and asked to be examined. Physicians pronounced him uninjured. He heard the verdict, lapsed into unconsciousness and died an hour later.

There's more than one way to report a story.

That gnu was right, no news is good news.

Good news is deadly!

Jersey Observer and Jersey Journal. Jersey City, New Jersey. Monday, December 31, 1923. "Banker Beats Cousins. Hexham, Eng. -- A dozen cousins who contested the will of Mrs. Isabella Hopper leaving her estate of $100,000 to her banker were defeated in court."

I'm sure it was all above board.

That's barely $1.9 million, inflation-adjusted.

Probably pocket change for our mysterious banker who definitely did nothing untoward.

Marrubium vulgare - Wikipedia

"The Oxford English Dictionary derives the word horehound from Old English hoar (furry, as in "hoarfrost") and hune (a word of unknown origin designating a class of herbs or plants). The second element was altered by folk etymology."

The Morning News. Wilmington, Delaware. Wednesday, June 01, 1887. Advertisement for Hale's Honey of Horehound & Tar Artistic image of a beehive nestled amongst pine trees and flowers. Text: " Affords relief to coughs and colds with a promptitude which often astonishes those who use it. Ask for Hale's and take no substitute. 3 sizes, 25c., 50c., $1.00."

Doesn't quite have the same ring to it as "Riiiiicola!"

At least it has an astonishing promptitude.

Cover of a promotional pamphlet from The Proctor & Gamble Company, 1934. Sketch image of three men at a restaurant table. Title "24 pies men like"

Recipe from page 21 of a promotional pamphlet from The Proctor & Gamble Company, 1934. RAISIN PIE 2 tablespoons cornstarch 1/2 cup sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup water 1 tablespoon Crisco 1 tablespoon lemon juice grated rind 1 lemon 1 cup raisins (seedless) Mix cornstarch, sugar, and salt, stir in water. Cook until thick. Add Crisco, lemon juice and rind, and raisins. Cool before pouring into pie tin lined with digestible Crisco crust. Cover with top crust. Fasten the edges by moistening between them with cold water. Press together tightly. Prick or slit the upper crust to allow the escape of steam. Bake in a hot oven (400°F.) until golden brown.

Imagine a dimension as vast as space & as timeless as infinity...the middle ground between light and shadow. A dimension where you must tell people you want seedless raisins.

This is where things went wrong. P&G thought they were helping, but you know how these things go.

24 pies men like...

Crop of part of the Faultless Nobelt Pajamas advertisement. Image of a horse with text: "*See the horse. He is wearing a surcingle. It is pulled tight, to keep the saddle in place. He runs and grunts in it, but ordinary horse-sense tells him he can't sleep in it."

They really want you to know about surcingles.

I'm going to be saying surcingles all day.

Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. Sunday, November 15, 1931. Advertisement for Faultless Nobelt Pajamas. Two inked images of a man in pajamas with the text "for high-strung individuals" "ARE you high-strung? Do you go to bed in "surcingle"* pajamas, hitched up around you? How can you get a good night's rest in pajamas that twist and bunch themselves around your waist? THE ANSWER - You need Faultless Nobelt Pajamas - tailored for sleep - with no "surcingle"* to make the trousers uncomfortable on you, or to interfere with deep breathing from the diaphragm. A light band of live sheet-rubber, encased in resilient webbing moulds the Faultless trousers to you with zephyr-like pressure. UP-TO-THE-MINUTE STYLING, TOO - Faultless Nobelt Pajamas are carefully styled, too - in collar-types, V-necks, round-necks. Marterial? Broadcloth, madras, silk, percale - solidly colored, striped, figured. Be sure to say Faultless Nobelt. Don't be sold a cheaper substitute. Be gentle but firm - like the Faultless Nobelt. Envision the laundering your suit will get. Then remember that only Faultless has the patented Nobelt feature - unconditionally guaranteed to retain its elasticity. Christmas will soon be here. Make your friends happy with Faultless Nobelts. (Give yourself a pair, too; you can use 'em!) The Faultless Manufacturing Company, Faultless Square, Baltimore, Md. Chicago Sales Office, 209 South State Street." Image of a horse with text: "*See the horse. He is wearing a surcingle. It is pulled tight, to keep the saddle in place. He runs and grunts in it, but ordinary horse-sense tells him he can't sleep in it." "FAULTLESS NOBELT PAJAMAS"

I can't stop thinking of that zephyr-like pressure.

Graffiti on a park bench done in black marker. open palm with all-seeing eye, a horizontal eye, a vertical eye text "constant vigilance"

Constant vigilance.