Candle salad is a vintage fruit salad that was popular in America from the 1920s through to the 1960s.
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Thrilling Wonder Stories, vol. 17, no. 3 (September 1940), with cover art by Earle Bergey illustrating a scene from Oscar J. Friend’s short story, “The Stolen Spectrum.”
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Sheepdog says nope https://www.tumblr.com/jimstares/789187338148478976
“Your grandfather has the most nonspecific midcentury visage I have ever seen” https://www.tumblr.com/atomic-two-sheds/789196281946963968/your-grandfather-has-the-most-nonspecific
The Jargonizer translates plain speech into corporate language.
"How did you manage to fuck that up so bad?" -> "I am perplexed by the unforeseen consequences of the recent initiative. Could you provide insight into the factors that contributed to the suboptimal outcome?"
A friend told me yesterday that I should take up painting. Later, I was reviewing my to-do list and saw, in the someday/maybe area: “Learn to draw? Take a class?” I have no memory of adding that task, but my to-do software says I added it three weeks ago.
I have not tried to draw anything since I was a pre-teen in art class. I expect if I tried now, the result would be so bad that you would not even be able to figure out what I am trying to draw.
And yet….
“The Man From Beyond,” by John Wyndham, Greek edition
