"Ducks don't eat sticks" is, to this very day, a Googlewhack.  Hence all the futile attempts to feed ducks sticks through the decades.  From Swarthmore's 1973 yearbook.

"Poets not writing poetry?" -- turns out that poets never have written poetry.  It's all been a big scam.  From The Gateway, 1982.

Of course, in cultures like Japan the color pink is masculine.  Plus, there's actually nothing funny about an apron, unless it's one of those novelty items showing space cats on pizzas or rude innuendo.  From Good Times Tomorrow by Gates and Peardon.

We, too, often find theatrical seating to be uncomfortable.  From The Film Daily, 1934.

"Your whole outlook on life changes—the whole structure is undermined because of one incident."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1988.

"Spirits from Pluto's realms appear."  From The Fables of Aesop, 1925.

From Unknown, 1942.

It's simultaneously 5:35 and 10:50 in this temporal anomaly in Daytona Beach, Florida, documented by Paulbr75.  Though we weren't on location to discover the exact cause of this timely weirdness, we offer this photo to help hone the insights of would-be investigators of temporal anomalies.  The more clocks one sees that are "on the fritz" (Fritz being the German clockmaker who first went "cuckoo"), the better attuned one will be to time warps in the wild.

The Tarzan of Tarzans.  From Moving Picture World, 1921.

We initially misread this to say, "Books often give way more to important pastimes."  From Canton Community College's 1967 yearbook.

From Twilight Zone magazine, 1981 (courtesy of Archive.org).

You've heard of "distance learning," but how are course materials actually transmitted?  From Valdosta's 1981 yearbook.

An illustration by Trier for Lustige Blätter, 1919.

From the University of Chicago's 1912 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

Mutual feeling.  From Centaur or the Turn Out by Edward W. Gough, 1878.

From Washington College's 1958 yearbook.

Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.

"New drink helps drown loss."  From Gateway, 1982.  See Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.