Vintage Posters - Home Front

Some vintage poster patriotism in honor of President's Day.  Copyright-free, from Dover.

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Quote Of The Day

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I will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five-deferment draft dodger. ~ LtCol Tammy Duckworth

In My Day It Was Called Home Economics

Peasant Woman Threading a Needle by

Jules Adolphe Aime Louis Breton

This is a neat idea, though.

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Paper Crafts - A Pooch for the Year of the Dog

Xinnian Keui Lo! And Canon again comes up with a cute paper project to celebrate.

Vintage Holidays - Valentine's Day

Some vintage Valentine clipart from Dover Publications.

Quote Of The Day

Last Absolution of the Munsters, by Fortunino Matania

In 1930, John Brophy and Eric Partridge published a collection of British songs and slang from the war.  They claimed that soldiers used the word 'fucking' so often that it was merely a warning 'that a noun is coming.' In a normal situation, swear words are used for emphasis, but Brophy and Partridge found that obscenity was so over-used among the military in the Great War that if a soldier wanted to express emotion he wouldn't swear.  'Thus, if a sergeant said, "Get your --ing rifles!" it was understood as a matter of routine.  But if he said "Get your rifles!" there was an immediate implication of urgency and danger.' ~ Bee Wilson

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This has been all over the Internet - to me, the best part is listening to his wife trying not to laugh as she films it.

What's Five Inches Of Snow Among Friends?

Batdog's class tonight at the kennel club was cancelled.

Vintage Advertising - Argo Cornstarch

And...another one I didn't record the magazine title/date.  I'm guessing Woman's Home Companion, one of the issues that has been digitized and can be found on Google Books.

Pretty desserts.

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Quote Of The Day

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You may perhaps be brought to acknowledge that it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it. ~ Jane Austen

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Back Fire

It might be worth getting on Twitter just for this woman.

This Could Have Been Better Phrased

Me:  (After searching in vain for a half-dozen of his toys)  Where the hell did all his balls go?

Knitting - Military Scarf and Gloves from 1951

Another project to knit for servicemen from Smart Knitting, Vol. 8, 1951.  Instructions on my Flickr account will probably need to be enlarged, but are readable.

Vintage Magazines - Action

"The Best In Lusty Adventure," from October, 1953. The cover, by Joe Szokoli, was the best thing about it.

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Quote of the Day

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Happiness is not a horse that can be harnessed. ~ Russian proverb