A Gay Balloon

Vintage, Richard Scarry ABC Word book

Plumbing the 80s

Or possibly late 1970s

#tapthat

Found in a bag of kids' trading cards at hardwaste earlier in the year.

Dr Rabbit

Is in the uncanny valley...

Would you like flies with that?

Pants with pockets

I kinda want to see these pants because, to be honest, I haven't seen an octopus wearing track pants. Enquiring minds wants to know.

Please do not feed the birds

Especially the ones with human heads.

See you at the bitter end.

"There's lemons on sale again."

#mondegreen #lifeonmars #ripdavidbowie
Today would have been David Bowie's 70th birthday :(

There is some debate as the whether the real song lyric is Lennon or Lenin. Liner sheets say Lennon.

Pasta Porn

On a pack of Italian pasta, this lovely, retro illustrated seal is disturbing in at least three ways.

Firstly there is a bit of Pasta Inception happening because she is holding another packet of pasta. The actual seal is on the back of the pack so it isn't visible in the illustration. I'm as disappointed as you are about that.

Secondly the act of unsealing the pack is a bit like ripping off her skirt due to the alignment of it and the pull tab. Weird is one word for it. A bit wrong might be another way of putting it. I wonder how a rape survivor would feel about it... 

Lastly, I would like to draw your attention to the blue triangle under her knee - and the main reason why I'm writing 
ie. Where is her other leg and the rest of her skirt?!

Don't worry I have worked it out for you:

You're welcome.

Flipping gymnastics

A local gym recently shut abruptly. They paper blacked out their windows and placed small notices saying 'end of lease' - but these 'Bad Moms' movie posters suggest a more complex narrative.

Random use of capital letters in a survey leads to LOLs.

HOW DARE YOU EVEN ASK ME THAT?!

FYI from the Zoos Victoria, members' survey, 2016

WhiteNight Melbourne Map looks like...

I settled down to plan my WhiteNight this weekend. I laid the map out to one side and realised the main group of precincts looks like a penis.

Mean while The Big Top in red, in this new context resembles female gentalia with an engorged clitoris/piercing.

Normally it has those paths and another set which looks like a bra.

How big, blue and beautiful

Unfortunate use of an apostrophe on the plural but nonetheless an amusing poster hack.

Free green submarine

According to my research, I'm not the only who sees it.



We tram for free in a green submarine [tram bell] *ding ding*
A green submarine *ding ding*
Free green submarine.

Sassy, hose wielding lady from the 1980s

The following borderline NSFW image is from an an old Vogue Australia article featuring designer Arabella Ramsay's scrapbook. Not really sure what is going on here [innocent look].



At a stretch it could be by iconic, 1980s illustrator Antonio Lopez - although his style is usually less overt.

Clever Rats

Clever Rats
Image by Whymper* (first name uncertain) from The Child's Companion and Juvenile Instructor, Vol. XXXIII, 1893, page 121

'The sagacity of rats is a fact that has long been known to naturalists. La Fontaine, in his "Fables," records that "Two rats in foraging, fell on an egg." And the story goes on to tell how
"Brimful of joy and appetite,
They were about to sack the box
So tight without the aid of locks,"
when a fox came into sight. Eager to save their booty, one turned upon his back holding the egg in his paws, and the other dragged him along by his tail to a place of safety.'

Then the following anecdote:

'The other day a son of mine, about eleven, said that through a chink in the floor he could see a rat rolling something that seemed like an egg. I got a saw and cut away the board, and found seven perfectly fresh eggs, not a crack in any except where I had unfortunately cracked a couple with my saw, and we could see that they were quite freshly broken. The nursery (the room in question) is upstairs, and as none of the hens ever lay within thirty or forty yards, and the eggs are collected every day, at what time they (the rats) went to work, or how they got them up the stairs, I can not imagine. We have often missed by the evening the eggs we had seen in the morning, and thougtht the hens had eaten them.'


*Probably Edward Whymper in an enjoyable side project? He was both a professional engraver and a famous mountaineer hence why he he listed as one of the 'etc' illustrators rather than listed by name. The etching signature matches known works.

Virgin Mary Costume 'Adult'

In the latest catalogue from Lombard, party shop, they have Christmas costumes. Inevitably the costumes for women are sexier than the ones for men. That is a subject explored by many other bloggers and columnists so I'll leave it to you to explore further.

This one is a little unexpected nonetheless. See through stripper heels on the Virgin Mary? Really?! It would have been better to have her barefoot if no appropriate shoes were available for the photo shoot. I hope that isn't part of the costume. My housemte suggested that it's probably a sneaky injoke.

The 'most inoffensive and gentle creature,' the giraffe.

'In some parts the natives also dig pits in which to trap it.'

Illustration and text from Holiday Stories, published by George Routledge and Sons, London, c. 1890s

Chicken Twirl Mascot

I was unusually checking out Woolworth's frozen food section and was reminded why I don't usually do this:

Chicken Twirls, Southern style.


At least he seems like a polite mascot with hat doffed and toothy ah, disarming smile - even if his legs are a bit too heroically apart! Can you imagine him sitting on a horse? Why does he have a belt? What is that curious bulge at the top of his leg? Why am I calling it a him?

"...And For Dessert..." by Ron Adams

"...And For Dessert..." by Ron Adams

o..O

Seen at Vinnie's Op Shop in July. Going by my internet research - I didn't buy or look inside this book - it's a recipe book for sensual play with food published in 1974.

A banana a day.

Current Australian Bananas advertisement on tram. 'Uranus Choc Log' [smirk 'n' giggles]