Tag: Death
1919 Amusement Park Ride Allows You to Die in a Sitting Position
From Electrical Experimenter magazine, December 1919:
“In the circus we are used to seeing a person “loop-the-loop” or turn a somersault in mid-air while in an automobile, the vehicle and its passengers landing right side up on a properly inclined platform, down which it glides to earth. Our artillery experts can compute with extreme accuracy the trajectory of various projectiles, both large and small, and thus it should be quite possible, with the aid of modern mechanical engineering technique, to build one of these aerial passenger rocket amusements successfully. The gun out of which is the shell or rocket, with its human cargo is shot, may be operated by compressed air, by powder, or it may be an electromagnetic gun.”
[Found here. Click the link above for .pdf of the issue.]
The .Gif Friday Post No. 585 – Pizza Face Belch, No Running In The House Cat & Your Time Is Up.
[2nd & 3rd .gifs found here and here. Top .gif was created from video found here, uploaded to Giphy, stole it back since they don’t give credit or allow downloading anymore, messed with it using JASC Animation Shop. Background story here.]
The .Gif Friday Post No.527 – Jacuzzi Bubbles, The Ethics Train & Love Fool
“When Death Rides the Rubber” – Popular Mechanics, December 1932
The Door Is Closed. Now What?
YOU HAVE THREE SECONDS TO CHOOSE CORRECTLY.
UNMARKED BUTTONS RELEASE THE GAS.
THE CLOCK STARTS NOW.
[Found here.]
“Hi Honey, I’m home. Did you remember to feed the cats?”
In Memory of Erin O’Keefe
A somber ceremony at Pike’s Peak 1876. The dangers of the new frontier were many, and there were many horrible ways one could part from the living.
The U.S. Signal Service (an early Weather Bureau) built a telegraph station on the summit [of Pike’s Peak] in 1873 to monitor the weather, and a guard was posted in Manitou at the beginning of the trail to collect a toll for hiking to the summit.
In May of 1876, tragedy befell the O’Keefe family when their daughter Erin was apparently eaten by mountain rats. The true story may be found here.
[Bottom image found here, top image here. Related post here.]
The .Gif Friday Post No. 218 – Glad Bag Sale, Floor Ninjas & The Pandas Of Death
Saturday Matinee – Hatebird, Deathkitty, Spadina Bus, Magic Bus & the BorgMobile
HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE
[Found here, crossposted here.]
Metro found this oddity. Reminded me of Karma Ghost, now on the Utoobage.
Spadina Bus: Great find by Gabriel, who tried to hide it in the comments.
Can’t believe that this one rolled in 1968. I want it.
I was looking for a song that I heard in the mid-seventies that had these lyrics:
I want to be a bus;
I want to be a big bus;
I want to bus the world around;
I want to be the biggest bus to ever bus the world around.
The google machine didn’t help; neither did the Utoobage search. Meh.
And Now For Our Feature Presentation:
Ernest Borgnine On The Bus (Part 1).
Tacky Raccoons 