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SidAndFinancy — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:54:18 EDT

What Leading Germans Think: "Although we've abandoned the Russian Reinsurance Treaty, the Triple Alliance and the Austro-German-Romanian Alliance shall keep the peace in Europe, as surely as the Archduke is welcome in Sarajevo."

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BalknChain — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:10:29 EDT

@BaconCat: lungular, ha!
Gout: A Fashionably Faux Affliction for the Fop in All of Us

Gotta run, see you all tomorrow. Keep up the funny afflictions!
BnC

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adminslave — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:56:28 EDT

The 18-Hour Work Day: Lenient, and Likely to Encourage Loutish Vagabondism

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BaconCat — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:55:37 EDT

@BalknChain: Style: Cigarettes, the newest health craze in keeping the miasmas away and promoting lungular vitality!

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adminslave — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:54:46 EDT

@BalknChain: Ladies' Maids Putting on Airs: How to Delicately Remind the Help of their 'Place'

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famousauthor — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:54:04 EDT

Was that November 17 of last year, or November 17 coming up? I don't want to miss some of those articles, particularly on the great Marlboroughs, the cigarette manufacturers.

famousauthor

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BalknChain — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:52:03 EDT

@adminslave: Brougham Manners: A Society Lady's Companion for Those Times a Footman Becomes Too Closely Acquainted With One's Ankle.

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adminslave — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:47:24 EDT

@BalknChain: Leprosy: Horrible, But May Result in Exotic Island Relocation

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BalknChain — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:47:06 EDT

@BettyCrocker: Freudian Novella: A How to Book about Blaming it All on One's Mother

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BettyCrocker — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:44:52 EDT

@adminslave: @BalknChain: Inducing Emotional Repression And Nueroses In Children

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adminslave — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:44:28 EDT

@BettyCrocker: Whitechapel: Entirely Safe for Long Walks Alone at Night

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BalknChain — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:44:06 EDT

@BalknChain: How to

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BalknChain — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:43:53 EDT

@adminslave: The Bubonic Plague: Hot to Look Presentable Whilst Withering Away and being Shunned

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BalknChain — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:41:59 EDT

@BettyCrocker: Strumpets: Food or Thy Cheating Husband's Latest Dalliance?

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adminslave — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:40:53 EDT

@BettyCrocker: "The Conjugal Act: Possibly Enjoyable?

Counterpoint: Mary Wood Allen, M.D., Superintendent of the Purity Department of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, notes that 'the most genuine love between a husband and a wife existed in the lofty sphere of platonic embrace.'" [www.cwrl.utexas.edu]

I love you, internet.

adminslave

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FredTheGreat — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:37:59 EDT

@lawyergay: I believe that I would thoroughly enjoy such thing. Just as long as we don't progress to whatleadingfrenchpeoplethink.com.

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BettyCrocker — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:36:23 EDT

@adminslave: Female Hysteria Cures: The Latest Scientific Electric Devices

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adminslave — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:34:36 EDT

@BettyCrocker: Childbed Fever: Incurable and Entirely Unavoidable. (Yeah I know it was cured in 1850, it's still funny!)

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BettyCrocker — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:33:26 EDT

@adminslave: Child Care: How Many Nannies Are Too Many Nannies? Also: Using Euphemisms In Potty Training.

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BettyCrocker — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:31:40 EDT

Fashion: How To Lace A Corset To Achieve A Stylish Waistline Of Ten Inches Without Rupturing Your Gall Bladder Or Getting Spleen Vapors.

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adminslave — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:29:49 EDT

@BettyCrocker: Swaddling Infants: The Hug You Give Without Having to Actually Touch Your Child, Ever.

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BettyCrocker — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:29:43 EDT

Shoe Buttons - In Or Auf?

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BettyCrocker — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:28:46 EDT

Things Really Do Go Better With Coke! Because It Has Cocaine In It! Whoo!

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adminslave — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:25:28 EDT

Complexition Lightener: Now With More Lead Paint!

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BettyCrocker — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:20:39 EDT

@BalknChain: Food: Mrs. Pinkerton's Laudanum Lady Fingers Make Teatime So Very Relaxing

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CodePink — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:14:46 EDT

@fiveinchtaint: Perchance? Forsooth! And fried deeply in mayhap oleo.

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BalknChain — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:12:49 EDT

Breeches: Not Just for Gents Anymore. A Tale of Two of Society's Ladies Dressed as Laddies Playing Hazard at Almacks

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BettyCrocker — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:11:32 EDT

@In Other News...: Firing The Help Without A Reference - A Household's Line In The Sand

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BettyCrocker — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:09:30 EDT

@adminslave: The Marital Act: How To Muddle Through

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adminslave — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:04:11 EDT

@the supergoddess: I am mining Anne of Green Gables and my Victorian Lit majorfor everything its worth!

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adminslave — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:03:25 EDT

@BettyCrocker: don't forget the spleen, as in "vapours of."

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the supergoddess — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:02:46 EDT

@adminslave: @BettyCrocker: you two are very good at this! ha!

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@BettyCrocker: Hee!

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adminslave — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:01:27 EDT

@adminslave: Lobotomy: The New Miracle Cure!

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adminslave — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:00:22 EDT

@BettyCrocker: Phrenology: Jusifying White Superiority Since 1800!

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BettyCrocker — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:53:46 EDT

@adminslave: The Vapors: Getting Women Out Of Doing Things They Hate Since 1891!

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valarmorghulis — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:48:41 EDT

@adminslave: Nothing like a little TB to get that perfect porcelin look.

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Seeräuber Jenny — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:48:10 EDT

Wharton's Buccaneers treats the subject of American heiresses seeking titles & marriage in England.b

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adminslave — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:45:42 EDT

@BettyCrocker: "The Galloping Consumption: Tragic, But Surprisingly Good for the Complextion!"

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In Other News... — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:44:12 EDT

Yo, the Sunday funnies back then were WACK! All Prince Valiant and shit.

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BettyCrocker — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:43:26 EDT

@adminslave: And! Absinthe And Gumdrops - Not Just For Grownups Anymore!

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Dickdogfood — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:41:57 EDT

I've posted this before, but the headline's just too golded. From 1895:

A SENSATION EXPLODED.; No Truth In the Story of an "Orgy" by Republican Legislators.

[query.nytimes.com]

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adminslave — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:41:26 EDT

@BullfightsOnAcid: Also in the issue: "Mercury: Not Just for Hats"

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Seeräuber Jenny — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:34:29 EDT

@lawyergay:
Parody requires wit.

Seeräuber Jenny

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tonashideska — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:30:16 EDT

Here's the link:

[query.nytimes.com]

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BullfightsOnAcid — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:29:11 EDT

It also included an article from a leading New York Doctor: "Leeches: The Cure For Everything"

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BaconCat — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:28:29 EDT

The inside jacket for the caption is priceless:

"Phineas M. Butterworth displays the newest fall hunting weapon: The 8 foot long barreled shotgun. Here he blows a bald eagle in twain. No longer will your missus and weeans be bothered by this menace of the skies. We all remember the sad bald eagle aduction of the Jewess baby Meier last autumnal equinox. Now you may stroll through central park or even in the wilds of Broncks farm in relative safety from avian assaults. This new weapon is available for a sawbuck and can be purchased at any local habadashery, cobbler or vintner in the city. Or one can have it shipped for an extra sixpence.

Mr. Butterworth's sporran is made of 100% snow owl and is sold separately.

BaconCat

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Phyllis Nefler — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:27:13 EDT

@the supergoddess: "Many Other Features Equally Good" - Nick Denton, on Kotaku and Jalopnik.

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TheHonJudgeSmails — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:23:38 EDT

@lawyergay: Do this. Now.

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BullfightsOnAcid — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:20:56 EDT

There's no mention of Michaelmas! Even back then the New York Times was run by pagans.

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Colonel Mustard — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:19:33 EDT

Features equally good as the study in rattlesnakes?! I'm getting the Vapors!

Colonel Mustard

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Phyllis Nefler — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:19:24 EDT

Leading Germans prefer the Post over the Daily News 4 to 1.

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ambitious heckler — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:19:11 EDT

"Fair Adirondack Dianas" sounds a little more NY Observer than NYT.
[radaronline.com]

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fiveinchtaint — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:14:28 EDT

@CodePink: Perchance thou likest thine game be dredged in egg and flour?

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Goober_Pea — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:14:01 EDT

@CodePink: Huzzah!

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lawyergay — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:07:50 EDT

I'd like to announce the launch of my new blog: whatleadinggermansthink.com

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In Other News... — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:07:36 EDT

There is a bit of history chronicled in this illustration: on Nov. 17, 1895, Mr. Henry James Thibodeau VI launched the first-ever intercontinental ballistic missile from his chimney. It landed safely in Canada.

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Conbon — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:07:06 EDT

The plutocracy just isn't the same anymore.

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TedSez — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:06:54 EDT

Strangely, the byline on that first article is "Miss Maureen Dowd."

TedSez

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CodePink — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:06:46 EDT

@fiveinchtaint: Mayhap some jam and wheat biscuits for after? Mercy me, we will feast tonight, children!

CodePink

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the supergoddess — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:05:06 EDT

a matrimonial slave mart: I'm looking for a new female writer to join gawker (nick denton craigslist ad)
fair adirondak dianas: nick denton launches a site for country lesbians
how new-york looks to visitors: a collection of maps in the likeness of madonna's skinny and sinewy arm, compiled by nick denton
what leading germans think (and why you shouldn't give a hoot about those hessian perverts), by nick denton
old days at blenhein: nick denton, the early years
a study in rattlesnakes: come on! too easy!

the supergoddess

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In Other News... — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:04:21 EDT

The illustrator forgot the "KA-BLAM!" onomatopaeic bubble.

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drugman — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:03:34 EDT

@fiveinchtaint: In happier times, there were quail to shoot.

drugman

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fiveinchtaint — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:02:02 EDT

That dandy is going to have a sick pheasant dinner tonight.

fiveinchtaint

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In Other News... — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:01:58 EDT

"Many Other Features Equally Good, including the Metropolitan Section, Creationism Times, Horses & Carriages, Betrothals, Transactions Under A Buttonwood Tree Day, the Half-a-Fortnight In Review and Sports."

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tonashideska — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:01:25 EDT

Racy stuff for 1895.

tonashideska

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VirusWithShoes — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:00:29 EDT

"Many Other Features Equally Good" is one of my best lines with women.

VirusWithShoes

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CodePink — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:59:37 EDT

Terrific!

CodePink

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In Other News... — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:59:01 EDT

"Many Other Features Equally Good" will win an Open Caption one day.

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