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I Love the Cover of the Latest “Onion Weekender”

(This was cross-posted to Global Nerdy.)

Cover of the “Onion Weekender”: “Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg — We sit down with the Smug Little Shit Behind the Latest Internet Phenomenon”

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Nerd Scrabble

I got this picture from my friend Miss Fipi Lele. It was originally titled Alderaan is a proper noun, assho — OPTIMUS! COOL IT WITH THE LUBE!:

Nerds in Optimus Prime, Darth Vader and Boba Fett masks playing Scrabble

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T-Shirt Design of the Moment

Right now, my favourite T-shirt design over at Busted Tees is “Canada: America’s Hat”…

“Canada: America’s Hat” T-shirt
Click the photo to see the web page for the shirt.

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“Think of it, Ellen — a world full of WEIRDOS!”

While hanging out on Queen Street West back in the summer of 1985, I saw a T-shirt with the image below and bought it immediately. I wore it all summer that year:

Old comic panel: “Think of it, Ellen — a world full of WEIRDOS!” “That would be wonderful…”
Click the image to see the source.

Yesterday’s entry, “Thank You, Mask Man!”, got me thinking about that time and what was then my favourite t-shirt. A little Googling led to me to this entry in the blog We Saw a Chicken, whose author had scanned the image from the magazine Strange Things are Happening.

I’m going to invert the image and make it the desktop background on my computers.

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Mondo Pasta’s Clever Ads

“To get Mondo Pasta on everyone’s mind,” says the copy that explains this clever bit of sticker work, “we created a bigger than life promotion at the most frequented place in Hamburg: the harbor. Hug stickers of faces turned ships into permanent pasta slurpers.

Boats with stick-on images that make them look like pasta slurpers
Click the photo to see the full version.
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

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When This Computer Fad Blows Over, I’m Joining This Band

Band in shiny outfits with a shiny accordionist
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

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Vintage “Lad Mag” Covers

Here’s a nice Friday time-waster for you: a Flickr photoset of vintage men’s magazine covers. A sample:

Cover of “True Men” magazine, August 1969 issue.
Just another Saturday night, back when I was single.
Click the picture to see the full set.