Month: December 2010

Fireproof Your Christmas Tree

Get the flock out! Forget the danger of little Timmy eating lead “icicles,” this stuff allowed many immigrants to light their Christmas trees in the traditional way — with tallow candles — and without burning their houses down.

I assume that this flocking product was intended to be mixed with water and poured or painted over the boughs of den Weihnachtsbaum. Perfectly safe, as long as the faux snow wasn’t friable, and you kept little Timmy from gnawing the needles.

Ahhh. Those were the days, before they invented lead poisoning, asbestosis, DDT toxicity, alar scares, political correctness and AGW pseudo science.

[Found here, crossposted here.]

Saturday Matinee – Obama, Dinah, Oliva & Traffic

Before we proceed with today’s entertainment, here’s a message from The President. [h/t Willzone]

Let’s crank up some vintage Dinah Washington, shall we? [h/t coldwarrior]

Someone else suggested a nice fistfulla salsa, so here it is.

Traffic from 1972. Great jazz-rock stuff, and it wasn’t pretentious at all, just nice rhythm and grooves. (Okay, it was kinda pretentious, but it was cool at the time.)

Have a great weekend folks, and be back here tomorrow for more fun.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 154 – Dribbling, Nerf Fake & Battle Clown

[Found here, here and here.]

Slinky

I think it’s photoshopped.

[Found here.]

Pre-Ignosecond

Lessee. A quick review of the photo tells me that these aren’t physics students, and that there is likely beer involved. At least four people thought that this was a good idea, and there’s a fifth one in the background egging them on who looks just like this.

[Found here.]