Amazing Pics: 07/17/09

Friday, July 17, 2009

Dumb Inventions..

Posted by Sarah Kathy at Friday, July 17, 2009

Curved Barrel Machine Gun, 1953

The 20th century saw many astounding technological innovations. The automobile revolutionized the way people live and work, the internet changed the way people think about information, and the U.S. of A put a man on the moon. But some technological advances that came in the earlier part of the 20th centry weren't exactly meant for the history books. Because they were stupid. Take, for example, this M3 sub-machine gun with a curved barrel for shooting around corners. It's the perfect gun for the "shoot first, look where you're shooting later" kind of guy.

Photo: Keystone/Getty Images

Jan 12, 1952

Anti-Bandit Bag, 1963

Inventor John H T Rinfret demonstrates his anti-bandit bag. To foil thieves the chain is pulled and the bottom of the case falls out so the contents are scattered over the floor. That'll stop those thieves from getting at the contents of your bag! No, wait. It won't.

Photo: Fred Mott/Getty Images

Aug 27, 1963

Hubbard Electrometer, 1968

American science fiction writer and founder of the Church of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard uses his Hubbard Electrometer to determine whether tomatoes experience pain, 1968. His work led him to the conclusion that tomatoes "scream when sliced."

Photo: Evening Standard/Getty Images

Jan 01, 1968

Cup Bras, 1949

Charles L. Langs poses with his strapless, backless, wireless, support-less bras. His wife is justifiably dubious.

Photo: Nina Leen/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

May 01, 1949

Finnish Portable Sauna, 1962

Photo: Yale Joel/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Jan 01, 1962

Baby Cage, 1937

A nanny supervising a baby suspended in a wire cage attached to the outside of a high tenement block window. The cages were distributed to members of the Chelsea Baby Club in London who have no gardens, or qualms about putting a child in a box dangling over a busy street.

Photo: Reg Speller/Getty Images

Jun 23, 1937

Laryngaphone, 1929

A man at a shipping exhibition in Olympia, London, demonstrating the ''Laryngaphone, '' a noise-excluding telephone which only transmits vibrations from the vocal chords when the microphone is placed against the throat or cheek. For the man who wants to annoy both his wife and his mistress

Photo: S. R. Gaiger/Getty Images

Sep 11, 1929

Motorized Surfboard, 1948

Hollywood inventor Joe Gilpin riding his motorized surfboard.

Photo: Peter Stackpole./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Apr 01, 1948

Rainy Day Cigarette Holder, 1954

President of Zeus Corp., Robert L. Stern, smoking a cigarette from his self-designed rainy day cigarette holder.

Photo: YALE JOEL

Mar 01, 1954

Rocket Belt, 1961

Engineer Harold Graham salutes President Kennedy after demonstrating Rocket Belt for him.

Photo: John Loengard./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Jan 01, 1961

Honegar, 1959

Inventor of a honey and vinegar mixture, called Honegar, Dr. DeForest C. Jarvis. Honegar was said to be a folk remedy for aches and pains, though it mainly sounds like a cure for lack of nausea.

Photo: Fritz Goro../Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Dec 01, 1959

Illuminated Tires, 1961

A woman adjusts her stocking by the light of the Goodyear's illuminated tires. The tire is made from a single piece of synthetic rubber and is brightly lit by bulbs mounted inside the wheel rim.

Photo: Douglas Miller/Getty Images

Oct 16, 1961

Shower Hood, 1970

For the woman who likes to put makeup on her dirty face.

Photo: Keystone/Getty Images

Feb 12, 1970

Cigarette Pack Holder, 1955

Photo: Jacobsen/Getty Images

Jan 01, 1955

Fast-Draw Robot, 1960

Robot equipped with fast-draw invention shoots it out with live gunner. It's always easy to question the wisdom of giving a robot a gun, but also making him quick on the draw is just irresponsible.

Photo: J. R. Eyerman./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Jun 01, 1960

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Ad Wars..

Posted by Sarah Kathy at Friday, July 17, 2009

First Round : Nikon v/s Lumix

Nikon- Face focus "no matter ghost face, human face, Skeleton, peeper, I can find them all."

interesting ads war

Lumix- I can find the face you even cannot see it.

interesting ads war

Second Round : Coca Cola v/s Pepsi
From Pepsi

Coca Cola takes the 2nd floor of this building for their sales marketing office and puts up a boarding. A couple days later Pepsi puts up the other board just for fun.

interesting ads war

Even the snow storm can't stop people go and buy Pepsi.

interesting ads war

Woo, seem like the straw doesn't want to be put into "Coca Cola".

interesting ads war

From Coca Cola

interesting ads war

Third Round : BMW v/s Audi v/s Subaru

This one is a really classic ads war, they are really awesome.

BMW started it

interesting ads war

Audi answered.

interesting ads war

Subaru wanted to say something.

interesting ads war

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Black Girl escorted to school...in 1960 & 2009

Posted by Sarah Kathy at Friday, July 17, 2009

THEN:
A little black girl escorted to school - 1960

Norman Rockwell painting of Ruby Bridges

On November 14, 1960, nearly 49 years ago, 6 year old Ruby Bridges faced hostile crowds, and had to be escorted by U.S. Marshalls , because she was the first black child to attend previously all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans , Louisiana . Ruby was 6 years old. (The Great Norman Rockwell created the painting above depicting that event.)

That morning, she had only been told by her mother that she was going to be attending a new school that day and'had better behave.' Little did little Ruby know that she would be bombarded with jeers and even death threats; and that she would end up being the sole child in her first grade class because all the other children were kept home by their parents. All because Ruby was Black.

NOW:
A little black girl escorted to school - 2009

On January 5, 2009, nearly 49 years after Ruby attended her school, 7 year old Sasha Obama, faced cheering schoolmates as she is escorted by her Mother and U. S. Secret Service Agents to Sidwell Friends Elementary School in Washington, DC. Her Mother, the current First Lady of the United States of America , had Secret Service escort because Sasha's daddy is now the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama:

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How to Smell Good Without Perfume..?

Posted by Sarah Kathy at Friday, July 17, 2009

How to Smell Good Without Perfume..?

Step 1 : Use a light dusting of baby powder.

Baby powder adds a subtle hint of scent without being overpowering. It smells so light and fresh that you can wear it almost anywhere. It's particularly nice to apply baby powder before you head for the exercise club. The powder tends to absorb some of the perspiration you'll produce during exercise.

Step 2 : Use essential oils.

To smell good without perfume, carry a vial of essential oil with you when you go out. Whenever you need a scent pick-me-up, dab a tiny amount of your favorite fragrance behind your ear... It's fresh and all natural.

Step 3 : Avoid smoking.

The smell of smoke can permeate your clothes and give you a stale smell that not even a good perfume can cover up.

Step 4 : Use a heavily scented shampoo.

To smell good without perfume, find a shampoo with a scent you like that lasts for more than a few hours after you wash your hair. There's something ultra sexy about hair that smells freshly washed. Why drown it out with perfume?

Step 5 : Use a scented body lotion..

A scented body lotion gives a more subtle scent than a heavy spray of perfume. Perfume can be overwhelming particularly in warm weather. A scented body lotion gives just the right hint of fragrance. .

Step 6 : Bathe and use deodorant every day.

To smell good without perfume, you need to keep your body clean and free of perspiration odors. Make it a habit to bathe on a daily basis and after your daily workout.

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Do you "know" English?

Posted by Sarah Kathy at Friday, July 17, 2009

There is no egg in the eggplant
No ham in the hamburger
And neither pine nor apple in the pineapple.
English muffins were not invented in England
French fries were not invented in France.

We sometimes take English for granted
But if we examine its paradoxes we find that
Quicksand takes you down slowly
Boxing rings are square
And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

If writers write, how come fingers don't fing.
If the plural of tooth is teeth
Shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth
If the teacher taught,
Why didn't the preacher praught.

If a vegetarian eats vegetables
What the heck does a humanitarian eat!?
Why do people recite at a play
Yet play at a recital?
Park on driveways and
Drive on parkways

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy
Of a language where a house can burn up as
It burns down
And in which you fill in a form
By filling it out
And a bell is only heard once it goes!

English was invented by people, not computers
And it reflects the creativity of the human race
(Which of course isn't a race at all)

That is why When the stars are out, they are visible
But when the lights are out, they are invisible
And why it is that when I wind up my watch, It starts
But when I wind up this observation, It ends.

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Events in pics...

Posted by Sarah Kathy at Friday, July 17, 2009

Relatives and friends of passengers of Air France flight AF447 arrive at the crisis centre at Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris. (Reuters Photo)

Train set ablaze

Police walk in front of a train set ablaze by an angry mob, near Khusrupur, Bihar. (AP Photo)

PM Manmohan Singh

PM Manmohan Singh makes his way to Parliament for the first session of the 15th Lok Sabha, in New Delhi. (AP Photo)

Bangladeshi villagers rebuild an embankment at Protap Nagar in Shatkhira, about 176 kilometers southwest of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Hundreds of thousands of people flooded out of their homes by deadly Cyclone Aila crowded government shelters in eastern India and Bangladesh on Friday, with officials saying the risk of disease outbreaks was growing. –AP

A girl uses a hand-pump to fill drinking water on the outskirts of Jammu. India's annual monsoon rains are expected to remain stagnant for up to five days, the weather department said on its website on Friday afternoon. – Reuters

Tribal grooms and brides carry earthen pots on their heads and hold flags during a mass marriage ceremony at Salbari village on the outskirts of the eastern Indian city of Siliguri. A total of 51 tribal couples from various teagarden estates across North Bengal took their wedding vows on Saturday during the day-long mass marriage ceremony organised by a non-governmental organisation.– Reuters

A young potter works on a vase at a workshop in Karachi – AFP/Asif Hassan

Japan Air Self-Defense Force aerobatic demonstration

The Blue Impulse (T-4), the Japan Air Self-Defense Force demonstration team, perform during the Yokohama Port Opening Festival in Japan, marking its 150th anniversary.

The annual event is held to celebrate the opening of the port on June 2 1859.

Photo: Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images

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