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Friday

Troubletown, good one.

I don't usually like Troubletown, either because the art is amateurish or because the jokes aren't good enough to make up for it, but this one hits the nail on the head.
http://troubletown.com/uploaded_images/ttown980.jpg

Tuesday

Can't get enough Bromo-Potash

So I'm leafing through issues from an 1891 volume of Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery. (Gone are the days when I was required to leaf through Playboy to prep it for microfilming.) Among the snake oils and tinctures advertised to cure epilepsy and syphilis, I see some product repeated on several covers: "Bromo Potash". And I'm helpless to stop myself from trying to fit it into the jingle that Sugar Bear used to sing for Super Golden Crisp.

"Can't get enough Bromo-Potash,
it's a tincture well worth its weight in currency."

Damn, I've got to keep working on it.

Some other ads I want to look up after we've scanned it:
* Dec 1891 issue. "Old Jug Lager, brewed only by the Moerlien-Geist Brewing Co., Nashville, Tennessee. Recommended as a Nutritive Tonic for Convalescents, Nursing Mothers, and Diseases of the Stomach, especially in cases where there is Faulty Assimiliation. Physicians of Davidson co. Ten. will be furnished a sample case, free of charge, upon application."
* Jul 1891 issue has an ad for Kellogg's Battle Creek Sanitarium.
* Field, Turf, Farm, 1860s. Awesome ads for pistols, livestock, news of horse racing inside.

Sunday

Tabletop RPG Dozens

Your mother is so dumb, when the cops knocked, she told the dungeon master to flush her Bag of Holding.
Your mother is so confused by Tolkien, she thought Arwen was Eowyn and Saruman was Sauron.
Your mother is so dumb, she blocked Cthulhu's number on her cell so he can't Call.
Your mother tried to slash the eye-stalks off the attorney general of the United States because she thought his name was Eric Beholder.
Your mother is so crazy, she tried to milk Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat with the Thousand Young.
Your mother is so crazy, her SAN was reduced to zero.
Your mother is so dumb, she thinks Chimera is Russell Simmons' ex-wife.
Your mother is so dumb, when she rolled D12, Eminem lost half his posse.
Your mother is so dumb, she thinks a d20 is a dodecahedron.
Your mother is so old, she paints Napoleonic war miniatures with the exact uniform colors and details she saw them in.
Your mother is so fat, her intestinal parasite is a purple worm.
Your mother is so nasty, she uses green slime to exfoliate.
Your mother is so fat and hungry, the green slime that's eating her can't catch up.
Your mother smokes so much weed, and that's why they call it White Plume Mountain.
Your mother is so forgetful, that's why they're called the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth.
Your mother is so ugly, I lost 2d4 SAN the first time I saw her.
Your mother is so ugly, she'd make a basilisk wince.
Your mother is so nasty, her picture and stat block were withheld from the First Edition Fiend Folio in favor of something more pleasant (see Penanggalan).
Your mother is so ugly, Erol Otus doesn't have the stomach to draw her.
Your mother is so dumb, she's the one who suggested using THAC0 in Second Edition.*
Your mother is so dumb, she made characters named Edward and Bella for a Twilight 2000 campaign.
Your mother's marketing skills are so weak that GLEEMAX!!
Your mother is so dumb, she invested in Palladium cause she heard Rifts was being developed for N-Gage.

[Switching to tv and movie geekery below...]
Your mother is so dumb, she makes movies where people throw their swords like spears.
Your mother is so dumb, she thinks the tv show Firefly was based on the novel by Piers Anthony.
Your mother is such a Trekkie, Neelix.
Your mother is so ignorant, she thinks "T'Pau" is the onomatopoetic name of the last cleaning product hawked by Billy Mays.
Your mother is so dumb, she thought "Seven of Nine" was a cute kid assimilated by the Borg who was brought in to perk up Married with Children after it jumped the shark.
Your mother is so dumb, she thinks Doctor Who's on First.

Bonus joke attempts:
Q: What do you call Firefly fans who are also Nazis?
A: Brownshirt Browncoats.

Q: What would you call a sidekick of Captain Kangaroo if he were a Nazi and a fan of Firefly?
A: Mr. Brownshirt Browncoat Green Jeans.


* Note that I never played Second Edition and have no personal opinion of THAC0, but heard so many complaints about it, it seems almost as big a pet peeve to D&D fans as people throwing swords in movies.

Tuesday

Today in Texas History

October 13, 1845. Texas voters overwhelmingly approve annexation to the United States, a state constitution and the annexation ordinance.

Half million Russian soldiers couldn't contain Afghan resistance



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