Weird Universe

Time 2020-11-19 11:03:59

Web Name: Weird Universe

WebSite: http://www.weirduniverse.net

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This 1964 ad envisioned a hand-held device that would allow people to run their home by remote control:Easy Does ItSomeday, you may be able to run your all-electric home and keep an eye on your youngsters by fingertip controlAs far as we know, the amazing device you see above hasn't been developed as yet.But it wouldn't be surprising if something like it were in the works. In this modern age of ours, only a short step separates the dreams of the moment from the realities of tomorrow.Newsweek - July 1964For once, the future actually delivered, since a smartphone can do everything imagined in this ad, and more.Interesting that the gadget has controls for 'lawn care,' 'food prep,' etc., but not for turning the lights on."Today, Ms. Maria Kalinowska, the greatest Poznań (Polish, and probably the largest in the scale of the universe) cinema lover, has passed away today," wrote the employees of the cinema to which Maria regularly visited her husband. A married couple wrote down each screening in a notebook - they could spend whole days in the cinema, equipped with sandwiches. People from Poznań who regularly visit the Muza Cinema had to meet them at least once.News article source of quote.Their Wikipedia page says: Maria Makowska-Kalinowska (1945 – 14 November 2020) and Bogdan Kalinowski (1939 – 9 November 2017) were a married couple from Poznań, Poland, known as the most avid filmgoers in Poland. They watched films in cinemas of Poznań regularly from 1973 on. In 2010 alone they watched 563 films. Altogether, between 1973 and 2010 they had viewed over 11,000 films together; by mid-2015 the total exceeded 13,000.[Maria and Bogdan Kalinowski were librarians, and they met during a course for librarians. There was also a library of the films watched, which they meticulously kept. The Kalinowski family went to every film festival, sat down with notebooks in their hands and took notes of every film they watched. And they saw thousands of them together - in 2017, when Mr. Bogdan died, this number probably exceeded 16,000.Source.Studies conducted by the U.S. Army in the late 1940s sought to determine the minimum amount of food a person would need to survive if they were shipwrecked on a desert island. One of the oddities the researchers discovered was that if, for some reason, the shipwrecked person had to choose between steak and water, they should choose the water: "Protein has the effect of drying up the body. Therefore eating a steak on a desert island with little or no water available would probably be worse than eating nothing, depending upon how long rescue took.""Shipwreck Diet: One of eleven Army volunteers who for six weeks will live on biscuits and water at the Metropolitan Hospital, New York City, to determine a human survival ration."Newsweek - Mar 15, 1948Waterloo Courier - Nov 16, 1949Early visual representation of social-media shaming. The two clips are different sections of the whole.The Wikipedia entry.Patent No. 2,533,526 was granted to Yvonne Bersia Snyder of Forest Hills, NY for a "Beauty Pillow":This invention relates to an article to be worn to prevent wrinkles and damaging of the skin tissues such as on the face. More particularly it deals with a pad or pillow which may be adjustably held against the side of the head to keep the skin from wrinkong or folding when the face is resting against a support, such as a pillow.During sleep the tissues of the face are usually crushed or folded in the same position for hours at a time. For example, the flesh of the cheeks or face when flattened against the pillow during the sleeping hours pushes the skin forwards and settles in the hollows of the eyes where it produces wrinkles.It is an object of this invention to prevent wrinkles or damaging of the skin tissues during rest.Looks like it could also double as headgear for full-contact sports.Moments of surreal or bizarre imagery in a nice little film about enjoying life.One weird addendum: you are seeing only one-third of the film. The film was meant to run on three screens simultaneously, with different imagery on each screen, although sometimes, I think, they synchronized.The Cornell Drug Corporation came out with Trim Cigarettes in 1958, claiming that smoking three of them a day would reduce appetite and thereby help with weight loss: Smoke a TRIM reducing aid cigarette and you'll be amazed to find yourself shaking your head as the food is passed around. There'll be no argument, you won't have to close your eyes and grit your teeth, you just won't want!The FDA promptly banned them. More info: wikipediaMiami News - May 16, 1958@KDP: Indeed. I saw a segment on “Ellen” wherein she challenged a teenaged girl to look By Judy in Follies of the Madmen #493Can you see a modern kid trying to use that phone? "I keep pushing those buttons but it won't By KDP in Follies of the Madmen #493My girlfriend got her own remote: https://postimg.cc/wtTmTDqJBy Virtual in Carnate in Home Monitor of the FutureMy Grandfather actually bought a bunch of these when I was a kid and we ate them. They were By Justin in Canned RoadkillI remember when I first got a universal remote. I knew that changed everything!By Phideaux in Home Monitor of the FutureAnd I will bet a nickle she has found a place for you to store it so it will always be personally By Steve E. in Home Monitor of the FutureHere's a pic of the remote I use: https://postimg.cc/WF6ptg65By Virtual in Carnate in Home Monitor of the FutureThe comments about the steak was there to keep shipwrecked people from eating their companions.By Yudith in The Shipwreck DietProbably not those "TRIM" smokes from Saturday.By KDP in The Shipwreck Diet Alex Boese Alex is the creator and curator of the Museum of Hoaxes. He's also the author of various weird, non-fiction, science-themed books such as Elephants on Acid and Psychedelic Apes.Paul Di Filippo Paul has been paid to put weird ideas into fictional form for over thirty years, in his career as a noted science fiction writer. He has recently begun blogging on many curious topics with three fellow writers at The Inferior 4+1.

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