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Before the infinite monkey theorem, with monkeys hitting typewriter keys, it was monkeys with quill pens, naturally. From Harper's Weekly, 1865.
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Restoring the Lost Sense –
October 30, 2015 |
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Here's sheet music for "Sounds from the Cemetery," a precursor to novelty Halloween albums, from Rhyme and Reason by Lewis Carroll (1884).
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Restoring the Lost Sense –
October 25, 2015 |
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Restoring the Lost Sense –
October 10, 2015 |
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Restoring the Lost Sense –
September 2, 2015 |
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This May Surprise You –
August 27, 2015 |
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Here's a precursor to the Dial-A-Joke telephone service phenomenon. From Athens Female College's Oracle yearbook, 1912. (For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.)
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The wind-up false-teeth gag, " Yakity-Yak," dates back to 1950, but here's precursor from Cham journal, 1853.
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Long before Eat, Pray, Love, the formula was "Rest, Pray, Sleep." From The Book of Dene, Deane, Adeane, 1899.
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