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[exiledfromtribe.livejournal.com]

Wanna play a game? If you had to attach a phrase/title/whathaveyou to this picture, what would it be? X-Posted to vintage_dish and retroliving

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[ocarina.livejournal.com]

"Science is hard!"

"Gee, Doug looks different lately, but I just can't put my finger on what it is!"

[exiledfromtribe.livejournal.com]

LOL! I'm serious-I laughed. The first one is so politically incorrect...and the other just appealed to the geek in me.

[humandays.livejournal.com]

* cue bouncy yet sedate early 1960s documentary music *

"mary is trying to figure out which of the peaceful uses of the atom she likes best."

[exiledfromtribe.livejournal.com]

Wow. Not only amusing but far from inconcievable during that era. I like it.

[humandays.livejournal.com]

i don't know if you've stumbled upon the astonishing resource of http://www.archive.org, but they have some real classics of 50s clunkiness / exploitation / staunchness. permit me to introduce you to:

http://www.archive.org/details/boys_beware -

but a small production from the world and lens of sid davis - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Davis .

but perhaps you know all this. :)

[exiledfromtribe.livejournal.com]

Woohooo! Thanks for sharing-I might be going for my Master's in History (law school having been..uh..well.) and my emphasis will be on Mid-Century American social history. Those links are more than just interesting to me. :)

[humandays.livejournal.com]

ah! glad to be of help.

i trust you've happened upon http://www.lileks.com/ ?

and this is an interesting sub-topic: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22eichler+homes%22

[ga-the-impaler.livejournal.com]

"I wonder if the atom has any practical applications when it comes to polishing the silver at Christmas..."

"If these atoms are so strong, then why can't they get rid of the little black things floating next to them?"

"Is it still behind me?"

[exiledfromtribe.livejournal.com]

"Is it still behind me?"

THAT was funny to me for some reason-although I wasn't sipping coffee at the time. grrrrrrr. The "silver polish" one is a little scary-I mean, those people had so little clue of the dangers I'm sure someone was working on such a polish. Seriously.

[ga-the-impaler.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. The 40-50's. They thought nuclear power was just so...nonchalant and safe. And with limitless uses.

Hey, what are those little black dot-things floating around? I can't tell. Are they random nuclei?

[exiledfromtribe.livejournal.com]

I meant to say I WISH I wasn't sipping coffee at the time. *shrug* I'd spill it somewhere anyway.
It's really hard to tell what the black things are-I think they're lonely nuclei that can't find even a single electron. *sniff* Poor nuclei. :*(

[ga-the-impaler.livejournal.com]

Well, how unstable of them!

[hardrockzombie.livejournal.com]

"Sure, atoms are swell, but will they make me feel 'less than fresh' (http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/BH/BH02/BH0215-72dpi.jpeg)?"

[exiledfromtribe.livejournal.com]

Ohmigod, that's so weird! Those "less than fresh" ads just horrify/fascinate me; especially the ones from the 30s aimed at the working/farming class. I.E. "if you smell bad your husband WILL hate you and likely leave you." They're just brutal and you don't find them in magazines like Good Housekeeping or Ladies Home Journal in my experience-well, not nearly as tactless anyway.