Here’s a roundup of some vintage Easter images I’ve saved over the years.
Conveniently labeled, to avoid confusion:
GAH!
Category: vintage
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The Internet is flooded with Easter treats these days, and I hadn’t planned to post much to spare you the redundancy. Then again, I’ve collected awful Easter bunny photos for the past two years so I might as well put them to good use, right?
Definitely start with last year’s Evil Bunny megapost if you haven’t seen it. Some of those bunnies are not to be missed! And now for an encore…
This is like something a serial killer would wear…
Likewise:
And THIS child is in undeniable danger.
I always think of bunnies as cute and round-ish, so I was surprised to see the number of oddly elongated heads.
The creation of a lagomorphic Dr. Frankenstein?
Tammy Faye?
Sympathy…
PAYBACK!
This is what happens when you report for mascot duty right after getting cut off at the bar. I bet he reeks of whiskey and carrots:
Warning: do not sit close to the screen for this next one.
And with that…I’m out!
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I’ve already seen a nice array of online April Fools Day pranks today, but one of my all time favorites has to be the Spaghetti Tree Hoax of 1957.
The BBC current affairs program Panorama told a tale of a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the fictitious spaghetti tree, broadcast at a time when this Italian dish was not widely eaten in the UK and some Britons were unaware spaghetti is a pasta made from wheat flour and water. Hundreds of viewers phoned into the BBC, either to say the story was not true, or wondering about it, with some even asking how to grow their own spaghetti trees.
Here is the TV segment:
So, what food would you want to grow on trees?
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The inimitable John K. just had a really neat blog post, featuring some retro puppets. Gotta love the 3-D modeled heads atop (sometimes badly) drawn cloth rags.
I’m envisioning a factory that only makes the cheap cloth bottoms…the puppet bottom factory.
Rocky seems to have let himself go a bit…
Here’s a Betty for all of your serial killer play acting:
See more over here.
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I’m about to say something that might make me very unpopular: I’ve never done a thing for St. Patrick’s Day. I appreciate the idea of a cultural celebration, but perhaps I associate this day too heavily with those who use it as an excuse to get rip roaring drunk and puke on their own shoes…or someone else’s shoes.
But, since people seem to get very into this holiday, here are some goodies I dug up for the occasion.
Let’s bring on the crafts!
For a nice relaxing sleep after drunken festivities…
Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you…
I wonder if these were mass produced, and there are a bunch of people walking around brandishing one of the most irritating grammatical mistakes in the English language:
(If [your] not able to make a grammatically correct button, fake it!)I wish I had come up with the idea to slap a label on five green jelly beans and market it as a holiday novelty (at 800% profit per package).
Mmmm…tastes like psychosis.
Have fun…be safe…
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Wow…The Mighty Samson has gotten into an interesting situation this time. I might have to send this as a Christmas greeting:
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I don’t have my camera USB cable at the moment so I can’t upload the fantastic ceramic toothpick holders I was given (among other amazing atrocities) for my birthday by the wonderful Stephanie and Matt. So until I can show my new acquisitions, I present Daisy the CowVintage Creamer:
The product description is awesome:
What better way to put a smile on your face first thing in the morning than to pour your milk from this little bovine sweetie! (And bake a batch of Chocolate Chocolate chip muffins?)
ADORable! With her BIG, beautiful blue eyes, and red lips! She has a cute little cow bell around her neck and sweet daisy’s on her front.
Sweet Daisy stands 6.5 inches tall. She is almost “perfect” condition, with the exception of one teeny chip along one of her horns (female cows can have horns, right?) I have taken a brown marker and touched it up, so she’s as good as new!
Ah Daisy, with your dead eyes and oddly rectangular mouth…there is none other quite like you…
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My wonderful, talented friend Steph responded with a link to my Jimmy Swinnerton post, informing me of a site dedicated entirely to flying squirrel art.
It made my day that this site exists (I suppose my day can get made quiet easily). As Steph put it, “We only have a limited amount of time in this world, and some people dedicate it to flying squirrels.”
The cuteness…oh dear…the cuteness! I can just hear him going “weeeeeeeeeee!”
The site contains links to original art, scientific and anatomy drawings and paintings of flying squirrels from North America from colonial times through 2002. Some of them are even from the webmaster’s personal collection (how great is that? A flying squirrel collection!).
Aw, a little desk helper:
Some are rather…strange…like this “found object” piece:
Clearly, the following narrative illustration ends with the squirrel flying blissfully to safety and living happily ever after. Please don’t argue with me on this.
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Coilhouse directed my attention to this wonderful set of Poe Illustrations.
Love this one…
See the rest of the set here.
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There are not enough pieces of art that involve flying squirrels. This one is by Jimmy Swinnerton, one of America’s first comic strip artists.
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