This is so obviously fake, I couldn’t believe it when I tried to search for its creator, and saw dozens of links to Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit posts, treating it as a real example of old advertising.
I can’t read much of the text, but the few phrases I can make out would never have been said in the 1930s or 40s…. “magic powder” that gives you the energy to work throughout the night.
The big giveaway is simply calling it “amphetamine”. No one knew that word, possibly not even doctors. It would have advertised a product, not the generic name for a whole category of drugs. In fact the drug part was hush hush.
“Take Dr. Wilton’s Pure Slimming Syrup… It slims you down and peps you up!”
Anyway, I found one site that explains it…
It’s “a photoshop creation, a fake advert that seems to have been made by a user called NeoplasmSix who uploaded it to the b3ta forum as part of an “image challenge” back in 2011.
The instructions were
“to design old-time adverts from the days before we knew better – cigarettes that keep you healthy, soap that makes housewives love their husbands more and super-fast cookers using the wonders of radium. Challenge suggested by Mystery_Bob.”
The image is actually an altered version of an 1939 ad for Bile beans, a laxative and tonic of questionable repute.”
They seem to be on an elevated lane or onramp, not at ground level, with no shoulders, and traffic lanes on both sides.
Can’t get to an edge to jump off, and if you did, the whole structure might be about to fall on you anyway.
Staying put till the shaking stops, hoping the structure holds and no logs fall off the truck … they do look pretty secure… is probably the safest bet.
Always remember … as it says in the Guide… DON’T PANIC!
I’m certain that the first part of you is correct, which means that the second part of you can’t be.
The thing is…
Audrey Hepburn trained for years, in her youth, as a dancer and ballerina, and never totally gave it up. She was also 8 or 10 years older than Natalie Wood, who was already in her early 20s, but playing younger, in West Side Story
“Norfolk and Western 611, also known as the “Spirit of Roanoke” and the “Queen of Steam”, is the only surviving example of Norfolk and Western’s (N&W) class J 4-8-4 type “Northern” streamlined steam locomotives. Built in May 1950 at N&W’s Roanoke (East End) Shops in Roanoke, Virginia, it was the twelfth member of its class and was also one of the last mainline passenger steam locomotives built in the United States, representing a pinnacle of American steam locomotive technology.”
It looks like a turtle ate a snake, to make some sort of tursnaken… but no.
It’s a three-toed box turtle (Terrapene triunguis)…. a species, according to Wikipedia, of hinge-shelled turtle, native to the south-central part of the United States.
It’s the official reptile of the state of Missouri!
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Dog tired!
Times Square-1935
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Jittery!
It’s funny… I’m so used to these things tricking my eyes, I thought this was black and while and my eyes were inventing the color.
But it’s actually there.
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This is so obviously fake, I couldn’t believe it when I tried to search for its creator, and saw dozens of links to Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit posts, treating it as a real example of old advertising.
I can’t read much of the text, but the few phrases I can make out would never have been said in the 1930s or 40s…. “magic powder” that gives you the energy to work throughout the night.
The big giveaway is simply calling it “amphetamine”. No one knew that word, possibly not even doctors. It would have advertised a product, not the generic name for a whole category of drugs. In fact the drug part was hush hush.
“Take Dr. Wilton’s Pure Slimming Syrup… It slims you down and peps you up!”
Anyway, I found one site that explains it…
It’s “a photoshop creation, a fake advert that seems to have been made by a user called NeoplasmSix who uploaded it to the b3ta forum as part of an “image challenge” back in 2011.
The instructions were
“to design old-time adverts from the days before we knew better – cigarettes that keep you healthy, soap that makes housewives love their husbands more and super-fast cookers using the wonders of radium. Challenge suggested by Mystery_Bob.”
The image is actually an altered version of an 1939 ad for Bile beans, a laxative and tonic of questionable repute.”
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Like life itself. So many paths to choose, and so many outcomes. May yours have been good ones.
Earthquake in Japan
Yow, Zippy! If I’m biker guy, I do not want to stay behind that truck.
Well, I’d certainly not recommend moving up alongside the truck, either.
There’s really nowhere to go.
They seem to be on an elevated lane or onramp, not at ground level, with no shoulders, and traffic lanes on both sides.
Can’t get to an edge to jump off, and if you did, the whole structure might be about to fall on you anyway.
Staying put till the shaking stops, hoping the structure holds and no logs fall off the truck … they do look pretty secure… is probably the safest bet.
Always remember … as it says in the Guide… DON’T PANIC!
And know where your towel is…
Exactly.
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Part of me
I’m certain that the first part of you is correct, which means that the second part of you can’t be.
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Better send them to look for that mising little yellow ducky, about half a dozen images down from here.
Maybe they can quack to him. I don’t speak duck.
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That’s a pretty fine looking locomotive. Looks like it’s from the Norfolk and Western line.
It sure is!
From the Wiki:
“Norfolk and Western 611, also known as the “Spirit of Roanoke” and the “Queen of Steam”, is the only surviving example of Norfolk and Western’s (N&W) class J 4-8-4 type “Northern” streamlined steam locomotives. Built in May 1950 at N&W’s Roanoke (East End) Shops in Roanoke, Virginia, it was the twelfth member of its class and was also one of the last mainline passenger steam locomotives built in the United States, representing a pinnacle of American steam locomotive technology.”
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It looks like a turtle ate a snake, to make some sort of tursnaken… but no.
It’s a three-toed box turtle (Terrapene triunguis)…. a species, according to Wikipedia, of hinge-shelled turtle, native to the south-central part of the United States.
It’s the official reptile of the state of Missouri!
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Bunnies!
Probably hanging with Waldo.
What I want to know is: How can George Jetson be in two places at once, {when he’s not anywhere at all?}
The same with two Elroys.
It looks like a kid’s Easter puzzle….
I don’t see the duck at all.
It’s possible that we don’t have the whole picture, or that the duck
blame me. I find these things , they look legitimate but since I don’t take the time to actually solve them, this happens sometimes
The person behind Fred Flintstone has some serious deformities.
As far as the duck goes, I don’t think it’s there, either.
Yes, I was trying to figure that one out.
Seems to be a woman with a Mad magazine style face, and a few extra arms and feet, including a detached foot in her mouth…
Somehow I don’t think that’s the intent.
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The dog says, “We will go for a walk.”
Taken around 1899.
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Underdog! And Polly Purebred!
And wearing a Spiderman outfit.
Yeah, sorry LL, but I think I’ve gotta go with Spiderdog here.
IIRC Underdog’s costume has neither mask nor spiderweb design.
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Well, it would have been right where he shot if the ground hadn’t stopped its path!
Late Afternoon light, Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain 2024.
Peanut the Lop, for Bunday.
Pacific Swallow.
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Looks like it’s “bark in the park” day.