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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

A Type of Bondage (Prepare for PUN ishment!)


I could dump this whole "Searching in America's Junk pile" thing I do and just post these ads from Popular Mechanics from 1916, and I'd be happy.  Who can resist an ad with this illustration?
Is this how E.L. James wrote "Fiddy Shades of Grey"?
Just from this ad I learned a new word, the first sentence and you will see that your salary will "treble!" I had to look it up, and find a site that would explain the difference between treble and triple. The former means something three times the original size, and the latter, means something with 3 components. Am I the last to know? Here is the full column:
 Mail order awesomeness. If you came here looking for prwn, keep looking...I may have left some around here ... somewhere...

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