Marmaduke Horseman

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EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE!!!!

Back From the Surreal Mart: It’s Grave Mood Rings

I had a hand in this! The Surreal Mart comments are based off of something I wrote. Professor Oddfellow and crew are definitely going somewhere. I suggest you follow along!

https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessorOddfellow

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These surreal CAPTCHA puzzles!  I can’t click “verify” without selecting an image, yet they’re all not pipes.  It’s a Catch-22 (er, CAPTCHA-22?) situation.  A robot can’t be in a Catch-22, so I’ve proven I’m not a robot, yet I can’t submit my proof.

My collection of vintage pipes is puffing along.

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Finally, news we can believe: “Spirit up as demons meet cats."  From The Current Sauce, 1953.

Newsworthy: a collection of weird and bad headlines.

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RSVPing while hallucinating.

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Hahahahahaha!

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Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs

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Dolores Moran’s contract stipulated that she would never display 3:45 or 9:15.  As Paris Hilton discovered, there’s no turning back times one later regrets.  From Cine-Mundial, 1944.

Timely: from cursed clocks to wind-up dresses, clock imps to clocks with faces, here’s my collection of vintage timepieces.

No kidding: Tumblr’s bots wrongly censor 1000s of my images per day (record: 4389 in 24 hours). Here’s what you’re missing: Weblog ◆ Books ◆ Videos ◆ Music ◆ Etsy

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Hilarious!!

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Reblog if, due to budget cuts, your art and language classes were combined.  From Washington College’s 1959 yearbook.

Here are some of the best vintage photos I’ve collected.

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Also Driver’s Ed and Spanish!

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Free download: a musical version of our field guide to identifying unicorns by sound, by the Seattle band Cuddlebot.  It’s like the baroque majesty of Disneyland’s Main Street Electrical Parade, recorded in the field.  We’re tickled and honored to have inspired this beguiling sonic masterpiece.  Physical copies of the original field guide do exist!  A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound.

Here are the vintage unicorns I’ve encountered.

And don’t miss A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound.

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We’re often asked, “is it teepee or tepee?”  You’ll see tepee everywhere, but “popularity is only of temporary moment … a vulgar struggling for supremacy” (Chamber’s Edinburgh Journal, 1849).  Indeed, California's Wigwam Motel (on both the historic registry and alongside the ghostly vestiges of Route 66) spells it teepee.  That’s surely definitive.  For further proof, we offer our own graphical evidence (heehee).

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It’s “teepee”, bitches.  Deal with it!

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Oh, the irony ...

… a picture in my queue, a drawing of 4 stylized hearts, was flagged as violating Tumblr’s sensibilities.  What an utter outrage.  They have flagged hundreds and hundreds of my posts … such as drawings of cats, not a single one of the images “controversial” except in the distorted nightmare that Tumblr has devolved into.  I thought I would be able to choke back my outrage and somehow live with this new incarnation of Tumblr.  Thing is, Tumblr is violating MY terms of service.  If you like what I’ve posted here, see my main website, which features the same content: http://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog

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What’s happening here is a total disaster! The language of Tumblr’s improper “flagged” notices constitutes an actionable character assassination under U.S. law! As if their twisted robots were the sole arbiters of what “violates” their “community guidelines,” the language essentially accuses each and every Tumblr user of being a child pornographer! And the only choice we’re given is to click an “Okay” button to agree? It’s positively disgusting.

Hey support drones... revise your language immediately! Figure out this crap behind the scenes! Right now you’re inviting a class-action suit! Consult your legal team about risk avoidance!

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Reblog if you’re the person on the other side of the wall (not pictured), waiting for whomever that is to go away.  From Lustige Blätter, 1919.

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Reblog if life has cut you right through but you might as well smile because what else is there left to do?  From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.

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Here’s some Droste effect from Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees, 1892.  We’re reminded of a scene with Matt Berry in The IT Crowd (below).

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#Gargoyles are numbers commonly carved into the design of old churches, typically in the form of a monstrous animal or human. Lot of times gargoyles in Gothic churches were attached to the seamless gutter system of the roofing, with the mouth of the gargoyle functioning as a spout for rain, aiding keep the masonry from being ruined. Here are some gargoyles sent to me by @covjek-zvijer (thank you! Go ahead, follow him) which are particularly interesting as you can see the gargoyles’ development. They came to be icons of kinds, utilising reoccurring styles, primarily pertaining to Paganism. The 5 standard teams are listed here:

Faces with numerous smaller figures and also one big figure, or one number with mouth agape and sticking out tongue: Represents the insignificance of the specific as well as exactly how prone we are to bigger powers.

Separated heads: A real practice of the Celts, who were head seekers. They venerated the heads they severed and also believed these heads held supernatural powers.

Unclear sex and also types: Specimens once more date back to the Pagans. The Pagan religious beliefs existed to overcome chaos and danger. These Gargoyles are deceptive of the fear of the unknown. This type of Gargoyle is currently called “Grotesque.”.

Head laced with branches as well as leaves: A branch coming out of the mouth or surrounding the head suggested divinity to the Celts. The Druids typically illustrated oak leaves, as the oak was spiritual to them. This is often described as the “Eco-friendly Man” today.

Sexual Themes: Made Use Of by the Pagan religious beliefs as symbols of fertility. If utilised on outside wall surfaces, they were thought to dissuade wickedness. Once again, we return to the global anxiety of sexuality that exists even today.

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Reblog if a gentleman ever tried to give you his card and you accidentally tossed your 21-button glove into his face (even though you weren’t wearing a sleeveless evening gown).  From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.

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I swear this is exactly what happened to me at my senior prom! At the time, I just brushed it off, thinking it could happen to anybody, but when I told the story afterwards, people said it wasn’t actually that common. Go figure!

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Here’s our proof that Papa Emeritus of the Swedish doom metal band Ghost is not a zombie anti-pope.  https://youtu.be/sRXFL6a8bdo

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This is so metal.

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Here’s our proof that all mirrors are magic mirrors, that reflections are real, and that we can literally drink the moon and the knowledge of the moon from a liquid mirror.

Here’s an idea: leave us a friendly comment over at YouTube and tell us about something YOU did that you’d like US to see:

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