Paint Your Cat

Paint Your Cat!

I didn't even know they did this. Some of the paint jobs cost $15,000 and had to be repeated every 3 months as the cat's hair grows out.

Must be nice to have $60,000 a year just to keep your cat painted!!

Absolutely stunning.

And people wonder why cats sometimes attack their owners!!

High Speed Camera Shots

Some cute natural nature pictures

That Wasn't In The Brochure!

That Wasn't In The Brochure....

Penis Day In Japan

March 15 was Penis Day in Japan. Here are the photos.

The actual festival is called Honen Matsuri. Celebrated every March 15 in Komaki, a town about 45 minutes north of Nagoya, Japan, this is the time of year where folks haul out a large wooden penis to give three cheers to fertility and renewal.

The custom is an old one that is connected to bringing about a good harvest and having babies.

Interesting Medications From The Past

Interesting Medications From the Past

Bayers Heroin

A bottle of Bayer's heroin. Between 1890 and 1910 heroin was sold as a non-addictive substitute for morphine. It was also used to treat children with strong cough.

Coca Wine

Metcalf Coca Wine was one of a huge variety of wines with cocaine on the market. Everybody used to say that it would make you happy and it would also work as a medicinal treatment.

Mariani Wine

Mariani wine (1875) was the most famous Coca wine of its time. Pope Leo XIII used to carry one bottle with him all the time. He awarded Angelo Mariani (the producer) with a Vatican gold medal.


Maltine
Produced by Maltine Manufacturing Company of New York . It was suggested that you should take a full glass with or after every meal. Children should take half a glass.

A Paper Weight

A paper weight promoting C.F. Boehringer & Soehne ( Mannheim , Germany ). They were proud of being the biggest producers in the world of products containing Quinine and Cocaine.

Opium For Asthma

Cocaine Tablets (1900)

All stage actors, singers teachers and preachers had to have them for a maximum performance. Great to "smooth" the voice

Cocaine Drops For Toothache

Very popular for children in 1885. Not only they relieved the pain, they made the children happy!

Opium For Newborns
I'm sure this would make them sleep well (not only the Opium, but 46% alcohol!!!!!)

And we worry about aspirin for children today???