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« Reply #1230 on: February 03, 2012, 07:35:26 AM »
I wasn't sure to put this in the Image Thread or Game Fodder.

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“On the wet windy evening of January 22, a youthful band of idealists went to a lonely cabin in the Maryland woods.”

Thus begins one of the odder stories LIFE magazine ever published — a straightforward, tongue-nowhere-near-cheek account of a 1941 “hex party” convened with one aim in mind: “to kill Adolf Hitler by voodoo incantation.” According to LIFE, the party featured “a dressmaker’s dummy, a Nazi uniform, nails, axes, tom-toms and plenty of Jamaica rum,” and was inspired by a book by occultist and writer William Seabrook that was popular at the time: Witchcraft: Its Power in the World Today.

Witchcraft or no witchcraft, these Nazi-haters knew how to party.

http://life.time.com/curiosities/putting-a-hex-on-hitler-1941/#1
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« Reply #1231 on: February 03, 2012, 02:47:31 PM »
Someone near my office building has a sense of humor.

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Re: Image Thread
« Reply #1232 on: February 03, 2012, 06:15:52 PM »

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Re: Image Thread
« Reply #1233 on: February 04, 2012, 04:56:04 AM »

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« Reply #1234 on: February 04, 2012, 03:35:12 PM »
hahahaha, nice.

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Re: Image Thread
« Reply #1235 on: February 04, 2012, 05:18:52 PM »

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Re: Image Thread
« Reply #1236 on: February 05, 2012, 02:19:25 AM »
You've been sucked out of the airlock into the black. Roll all the dice on the table for damage.

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« Reply #1238 on: February 05, 2012, 04:36:03 PM »

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« Reply #1239 on: February 05, 2012, 08:45:34 PM »
So I started playing X-COM: UFO Defense again recently. Here's a tip for anyone wanting to try the game.


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Re: Image Thread
« Reply #1240 on: February 15, 2012, 12:05:00 PM »
Beautiful photochroms taken in the 1890s in Norway: http://www.retronaut.co/2012/02/norweigan-photocroms-1890-1900/

More on photochroms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photochrom
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« Reply #1241 on: February 15, 2012, 07:43:47 PM »

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« Reply #1242 on: February 17, 2012, 08:02:24 AM »
Fallout shelter ads? Fallout shelter ads! AWESOME: http://www.retronaut.co/2012/02/fallout-shelter-ads-1960s/
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« Reply #1243 on: February 18, 2012, 03:05:46 AM »


This is a beautiful thing.

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Re: Image Thread
« Reply #1244 on: February 19, 2012, 04:09:48 AM »