~ DuPont Magazine, February 1919
(click to enlarge)Hands down, one of the best advertisements I’ve ever seen.
“Write for free booklet ‘Blasting Ice James with Du Pont Explosives.”
“Hello Mr Postmaster has my dynamite arrived yet?”
The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.
Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?
A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.
