RelentlesslyOptimistic

Headline of the day: Supreme Court Strips Al Gore of Oscar

Court Declares George W. Bush Winner

From Big Shot Bob in Texas

Via YesButNoButYes

Lysol douches for women, radium suppositories for men

Sadly lacking the variety of fancy images and copywriting of the Lysol ads, these radium suppositories were "tone restorers of sex and energizers for the entire nervous, glandular and circulatory systems."

". . . properly functioning glands make themselves known in a quick, brisk step, mental alertness and the ability to live and love in the fullest sense of the word . . . A man must be in a bad way indeed to sit back and be satisfied without the pleasures that are his birthright!"

"...Recommended for sexually weak men...Also splendid for piles and rectal sores."

From the Oak Ridge Associated Universities' Health Physics Historical Instrumentation Museum Collection Radioactive Quack Cures section. Via jwz

A (bald) Britney of your very own!

The Russian Tattler site has a printable image so you can make your very own bald Britney.

Via YesButNoButYes

W.W.G.W.B.D.?

From Wellington Grey:

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Via Dvorak Uncensored

Lysol douche: "She should have known better, for she was no stranger to feminine hygiene"

 

Neatorama pointed out an ad for Lysol douche from the Flickr "Her Secret Past" photo pool.

"So easy a way to banish the misgivings that often keep married lovers apart"
"Appealing daintiness is assured"
"make no mistake -- only a poison can kill germs"
"She should have known better, for she was no stranger to feminine hygiene"
"...no greasy aftereffect"
"No woman who has a normal foundation of good health can be forgiven for failing to 'stay young with her husband'"
"...restore every woman's confidence in her power to please"
"...thinking you know about feminine hygiene, yet trusting to now-and-then care, can make all the difference in married happiness"

More ads here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. A commenter pointed out the treasure trove of similar ads in the Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection.

Homeless Frank on Boston's Bomb Scare: "You really think them terrorists gonna put a blinking sign on their bombs?"

Homeless Frank lives in front of the building where Razen of YesButNoButYes works; Razen pays him in food for blog entries. Homeless Frank's post on the Aqua Teen Hunger Force bomb scare:

" Lucky Charles got a warm place in the subway. Been staying with him a few days. He keeps dogs. Motherfuckers stink but it's warm. When you got the choice between breathing in dog piss or having your dick turn into an icicle, you gots to choose the dog piss every single time.

Cause that's just the way life is, a big ole' breath of warm dog piss and not a fucking thing you can do about it.

Lucky Charles gots a radio and I was listening to them stupid motherfuckers that put up them signs in Boston. Them boys dumb but they ain't got nothing on the Boston police. Them some stupid motherfuckers.

You really think them terrorists gonna put a blinking sign on their bombs? Ain't nobody stupid enough to believe that bullshit, cept maybe the Boston police.

I spent 2 years back in the 80s living in Boston. Shit hole town that gots nothing better to do than dig holes in the dirt and throw money into it. Big Dig they called it. Big Motherfucking Mistake I call it.

And them Boston people ain't got no sympathy for the homeless. They ignore us. Like we ain't there. Hell if them bombers wanted to blow apart Boston all they would have to do is make bombs into the shape of homeless people. None of them motherfuckers would notice a damn thing."

Homeless Frank also has thoughts on American Idol, the President and the War in Iraq, and Paris Hilton.