How to use your cigarettes
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How to Marl your boro

I bought something from someone in the Netherlands, and they helpfully included this instruction manual. Apparently the process of opening…

U&I Gingerbread boy does not know that he will be eaten.
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Gingerbread boy is oblivious

U&I Sugar had a mascot, maybe only at Christmas? A gingerbread boy, smiling because he doesn’t know that his fate…

Ugly carrots not supermarket worthy
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Gnarly Carrot

A while back, we went to a produce stand that advertised “big ugly local carrots” – In other circumstances I…

1903 Packard drive
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Be nice to your mechanic!

It was 1903 that this Packard was driven from San Francisco to New York, in 51 days. The world’s biggest ball of twine was still just a paperweight.

1909 Wisconsin tornado insurance
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Read the fine print!

It specifically excludes farming equipment, reapers, mowers, wagons, buggies, and the like.

Animals are out also; Horses, mules, and colts, cattle, sheep, hogs.

If ethyl don't mind
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Ethyl has gas.

If I was a gas station attendant back then, and if someone asked for the gas with Ethyl in it, I would have been obligated to mutter “If Ethyl don’t mind!”

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1962 Wall Plant

I don’t know what this plant is but I call it “The 1962 Plant”- It reminds me of wallpaper I saw when I was a kid, or maybe the pattern on one of those cone lamps?