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Getting a better look at that quaint little babbling brook ended up being a smashing idea.

Unfortunately for Wembley, when heard from his mates at the stag party that his wedding night would be "all fanny diving" he greatly miscalculated his outfit for the portrait.

#diving #verne #portrait #vintage

When Constable Farhott said that the life saving station should "look towards the heavens" he didn't mean for it to also have barnacles on its arse.

No one in Wrigleyville Stadium was refunded their nickel when Strongman Apollon lost both his forearms in a misguided attempt to conquer the power of machines.

#car #stadium

It was on this chair and after this photo that Phineas Gage vowed never to fight a narwhal again.

Bob Burman's jalopy was left for weeks in the roadside grass. He hadn't seen the log in the road the completely ruined the underside motor. Plus he was texting while driving. Idiot.

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The Edwardian version of those little battery-powered cars my more moneyed neighbourhood friends had when we were five.

It was at this exact moment that Shelley realized she would never be able to love Frank. Not because he wasn't a good man, or because he didn't provide for her, but because his breath was STANK. (courtesy Barbara Levine, http://www.projectb.com/vintage_photographs)

#romance

10 miles into the great Yale-Vassar Bike Race, things got out of hand. For the record, Stan's outfit was out of hand before they left. (via Life Magazine)

#vassar #bike

Isaac knew he was done for. He never beat his twin brother Isiah in their yearly bicycle race. Especially the countless times when the front wheel of his bicycle accidentally morphed into a gigantic Spaghetti-O (via Fixed Gear Blog).

#bicycle

For their Spring Fling in 1909 Zeta Beta Tau black-faced themselves as African tribesman. They got wasted and were overtly racist assholes until 4 am. Some girls from Barnard provided the syphilis.

#frat guys

Little Suzie liked watching things go boom. It surprised no one later in life that she was on the cutting edge of new-wave bondage porn. (via The Swedish Bed)

Apparently back in the old days it was ok for a Senator to be named after special corporate interests like Mr. Bankhead pictured here. It was also apparently ok for them to smoke weed in public.

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Captain Knuckles had but three friends, a Kitty, the sea, and the snarling taxidermied head of an Ethiopian Wolf Fox whose hair he regularly brushed while singing Shanty tunes.

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captain knuckles.

She'll be comin' round the mountain when she fails. She'll be comin' round the mountain when she fails. She'll be comin' round the mountain, She'll be comin' round the mountain, She'll be comin' round the mountain when she fails.

You know what they say, "When there's smoke, there's a usually a servant getting horsewhipped." (via Shorpy)

#fire #horsewhipping

Immediately before this nosedive, Captain Robinson of the Sweet Ruby Sue insisted on lighting his pipe. It fell on his lap.

#plane,

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