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Land of the Fiberglass Giants

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 05:00 AM PDT

The following is an article from Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader.


(Image credit: Leonard J. DeFrancisci)

Back in the early 1960s, little Uncle John saw a giant statue of Paul Bunyan at Freedomland USA, an amusement park outside New York City. Freedomland closed in 1964, but the Paul Bunyan statue is still around -standing behind a gas station in nearby Elsmford, New York. And it turns out, there are a lot more Paul Bunyans around the country …if you know where to find them.

WHO’S THAT MAN?

If you’ve taken a lot of car trips, you’ve seen them— 18- to 25-foot figures of dark-haired, square-jawed men in a short sleeved shirt and work pants. Their arms are extended at the elbow, with the right hand facing up and the left hand facing down, often holding something, like a muffler or a roll of carpet.

What you might not know is that there are more than 150 of these gigantic fiberglass figures dotting America’s highways, advertising everything from tires to burger joints to amusement parks. Almost all of them were made by one man.

BIRTH OF THE BIG BOYS

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It all started in 1962, when the Paul Bunyan Cafe on Route 66 in Flagstaff, Arizona, wanted a statue of their namesake to stand beside the highway and attract hungry motorists. Prewitt Fiberglass in Venice, California, was happy to supply a figure of the giant lumberjack and created a molded Paul Bunyan character wearing a green cap, dark beard, a red shirt, and jeans, and holding an axe.

That was it as far as Prewitt Fiberglass was concerned -one customer, one Paul Bunyan. But then owner Bob Prewitt decided to sell his business to a fiberglass boat builder named Steve Dashew. Dashew renamed the company International Fiberglass and, wanting to make a success of the new venture, started looking for business opportunities. The leftover Paul Bunyan mold caught his eye. It was such an odd asset, he thought it might have value. Dashew began calling retail businesses around the country and asking them if they could use a giant advertising figure. A few said they could. When a story about one of Dashew’s customers appeared in a retail trade magazine, stating that sales had doubled after the Paul Bunyan went up, business in the giant fiberglass figures began to boom.

PAUL BUNYAN’S FRIENDS

Dashew started to aggressively market the big statues across the country and sold them by the score. At first they were all Paul Bunyans, but Dashew soon discovered he could modify the basic mold slightly to create other figures.

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* He turned them into cowboys, Indians, and astronauts. All of the figures had the same arm configuration as the first Paul Bunyan, so they were almost always holding something, like a plate or some tires.

* International Fiberglass made other figures, too -such as giant chickens, dinosaurs, and tigers- selling beach for $1,800 to $2,800.

* They made 300 “Big Friends” for Texaco, figures of smiling Texaco service attendants in green uniforms with green caps.

* They built Yogi Bears for Yogi Bear’s Honey Fried Chicken restaurants in North and South Carolina.

(Image credit: Flickr user Chuck Coker)

* To advertise Uniroyal Tires, they made a series of hulking women who looked a lot like Jackie Kennedy, holding a tire in one of her upraised hands. These women were issued with a dress, which could be removed to reveal a bikini.

But the figures made from the original Paul Bunyan mold proved to be the most popular, not to mention the most cost-effective for Dashew, who used the same mold over and over again. By the mid 1960s, the figures had made their way into hundreds of towns across the United States and were great attention-getters for retail stores and restaurants of all kinds.

BYE-BYE BUNYAN

But by the 1970s, the big figures that seemed so impressive years earlier were getting dingy, weather-beaten, and silly looking to the next generation of consumers. As the sales of the statues slowed, Dashew concentrated his energies on other business ventures. In 1976 he sold the business and the Paul Bunyan mold was destroyed.

(Image credit: Mykl Roventine)

Today, most of the fiberglass colossi are also gone, having been destroyed, removed, or beaten down by the elements. But they haven’t all disappeared. In fact, almost every state of the Union has at least one. With businesses changing hands, the figures have been modified over the years.

* One Bunyan in Malibu, California, used to hold an immense hamburger. When a Mexican food joint bought out the burger place, he was given a sombrero and a serape, and his hamburger was replaced with a taco.

* A Bunyan at Lynch’s Super Station in Havre de Grace, Maryland, was dressed in desert fatigues in 1991 to show support for the Gulf War.

* One former Uniroyal Gal stands in front of Martha’s cafe in Blackfoot, Idaho, holding a sandwich platter.

* Another Uniroyal Gal, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, has been dressed in a pair of Daisy Duke shorts, given a beach ball to hold, fitted with a queen-size stainless steel belly button ring, and placed in front of the Men’s Night Out “private club.”

BIG MEN IN THE MEDIA

If you can’t get to see one of the giant statues in person, you can look for them in movies and on TV:

* A Paul Bunyan was featured in the 1969 movie Easy Rider.



* A modified Bunyan is pictured in the opening credits of the TV show The Sopranos. The figure, which holds a giant roll of carpet to advertise Wilson’s Carpet in Jersey City, New Jersey, is now a stop on the New Jersey Sopranos bus tour.

* Bunyans have also made appearances in the TV show The A-Team, in the 2000 John Travolta flick Battlefield Earth, and in commercials for Saturn cars and Kleenex Tissues.

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The article above was reprinted with permission from Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader.

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Lowcost Cosplay Is Back, And Just As Budget Conscious As Ever

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 04:00 AM PDT

Anucha "Cha" Saengchart has created his own unique version of cosplay, which doesn't involve fancy costumes, super realistic accessories created out of Worbla, or incredibly detailed make-up. In fact, Cha's Lowcost Cosplay is created with supplies he typically finds around the house:

Cha's vision of cosplaying means turning anything and everything into a cosplay element, such as this fancy Jason Voorhees mask fashioned out of a plastic spoon, or this "amazingly realistic" Mystique cosplay created with some sort of blue tape and a shower cap:

Now that's the kind of cosplay people who are too broke to buy supplies, or unskilled in the ways of the sewing machine and friendly plastics, can get behind- cosplay for the sake of your own amusement!

And the best part is- nobody has to see your creation when you're done, unless you're brave enough to post your own version(s) of Lowcost Cosplay to the net, in which case please share it with us in the comment section!

-Via Fashionably Geek

Tortoise Versus Dog in a Cutthroat Game of "Soccer"

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 03:00 AM PDT

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This tortoise apparently really wants to play with this ball. So much so that he's willing to get aggressive with the howling dog who seems to think he has possession of it. Upon hearing a description of the situation, one might think the dog would be the easy winner of this one-upmanship. Not so fast. This is one tough little tortoise who takes his ball games seriously. Via Tastefully Offensive. 

Quirky Local Customs Every Traveler Should Know

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 02:00 AM PDT

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Traveling abroad can be an exhilarating and life changing experience, if you’re not being snubbed and treated like an unwanted visitor by the locals...

Some places simply aren't very accommodating to travelers, but sometimes people will have a bad attitude towards you because they think you've wronged them by unknowingly going against one of their customs. Take this seemingly harmless "talk to the hand" type gesture:

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This gesture is called a "mountza" in Greek, and it's just as insulting to the Greeks as giving someone the middle finger is in America, so don't get all sassy on the natives when you visit Greece or the gods will rain their displeasure down upon you!

Before you take your next trip abroad check out this informative and entertaining guide by Sherman Travel entitled 10 Quirky Customs Travelers Should Know and keep your hosts happy!

Frankfurt Airport Turned Into a Starport

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 01:00 AM PDT

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This video is titled “Leaked Star Wars Episode VII Filmset Footage!” Yeah, well, it’s not. It has nothing to do with Star Wars VII. But it’s a pretty good little sequence of spacecraft from long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away at the Frankfurt Airport in Germany. As one commenter said, “Let's be honest, it would be better than the prequels.” -via Daily Picks and Flicks

Pick-Up Lines for Ghosts

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 12:00 AM PDT


(Safely Endangered/Chris McCoy)

Pro tip: if you try these on a living woman and she responds with interest, you've found a keeper!

Try them out on both the living and the dead tonight.

Smarty Pins

Posted: 06 Jul 2014 11:00 PM PDT

Google has a new geography game called Smarty Pins in which you must answer questions by placing a pin on Google Maps. You are given a thousand miles, and the number of miles you are off for each question, that number is deducted from your score. You can play until you run out of miles. I did pretty good until the eleventh question was about baseball and I suddenly lost all my miles. I got into the groove of answering quickly because you get bonus miles for speed, and forgot that hints are available when you’re stuck. Try it yourself and let us know how you did! -via Mashable

Trailer for Documentary "To Be Takei"

Posted: 06 Jul 2014 10:00 PM PDT


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This is the official trailer of "To Be Takei," a documentary on actor and pop culture icon George Takei. The film, directed by Jenifer M. Kroot, includes interviews with George Takei, Brad Takei, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, Howard Stern, Dan Savage, Walter Koenig and others. The documentary will beam into movie theaters on August 22, 2014. Via Laughing Squid. 

 

Delightfully Bad Captain America Cosplay Fails

Posted: 06 Jul 2014 09:00 PM PDT

Living up to Steve Rogers’ All-American reputation is hard, but most of the guys in this gallery of Captain America cosplay fails didn’t even try to make their outfits look good!:

Okay, it’s not fair to call all of these examples "cosplay", since some are just guys fooling around and the actual cosplayers in the group aren’t that bad at all, but the rest of the guys in this gallery more than make up for those halfway decent acts of cosplay with some horrendously bad ideas of their own:

Captain ‘Merica- funny, yet somehow sad, and speaking of sad- Sad Cap cries blue star tears and looks like he’s been up all night trying to drink his sorrows away:

And don’t even get me started on the last guy in the gallery, who does he think he is- some Hollywood hotshot who can just walk around with a Captain America shield and no costume?:

Check out the rest of the gallery Captain America Cosplay So Bad It's Anti-American over at The Soup.

A Day in the Life of an Undertaker

Posted: 06 Jul 2014 08:00 PM PDT

Ken McKenzie owns a funeral home, and along with Todd Hara, wrote a book about his experiences titled Over Our Dead Bodies: Undertakers Lift the Lid. Salon has an excerpt about a funeral that did not go as planned. Although it wasn’t a typical day, it’s the kind of experience that makes people advise a person to write a book. Here’s a snippet:

As I approached the chapel, several people fled the scene, and each time I jumped over to the far wall as if to hide. Luckily, they were too intent on fleeing to bother me. Emboldened, I ducked into the rear of the chapel, and what I saw shocked me. The casket was toppled over and everything that wasn’t bolted down had been tossed everywhere, ostensibly used as weapons. All my precious antiques were mostly shattered. Flower petals and blossoms poured from the sky like a ticker tape parade—the floral arrangements had been thrown and re-thrown and re-thrown. And of course the blood—it was everywhere. The walls. The carpets. The pews. I wanted to cry, but instead I shouted at the top of my lungs, “Police! The police are coming!”

Nobody paid a lick of attention to me, and then a wooden tissue box cover hit me in the face.

You’ll want to read the entire story at Salon. I’ve been to a few rowdy funerals, but so far, none have included a visit by the SWAT team. -via Digg  

(Image credit: Flickr user Great Beyond)

Storm Photography by Mitch Dobrowner

Posted: 06 Jul 2014 07:00 PM PDT



Between 2005 and 2014, Mitch Dobrowner, a photographer from Studio City, California, traveled the United States photographing storms. The resulting photographs range from relatively harmless weather patterns to destructive tornadoes. His series is making the rounds of galleries across the United States. See more of Dobrowner's work at his website, the front page of which features this quote by writer and environmentalist Edward Abbey,

 "Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today."

Via Juxtapoz.

Death Metal Band Performs in a Soundproof, Airtight Box Until It Passes out

Posted: 06 Jul 2014 06:00 PM PDT


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The band did not do so out of kindness for passersby in London, but as an act of performance art entitled "Box Sized Die."

The band is named Unfathomable Ruination. Although this would be a poor baby name, it is suitable for a death metal band or an exceptionally large and greasy burrito. The band is collaborating with João Onofre, a Portuguese artist noted for his performance work.


(Photo: Unfathomable Ruination)

They placed a large, soundproof and airtight box on a sidewalk in London's financial district. Three times a week until August 1, the band members enter the chamber. Assistants seal them in. Then the band plays until it collapses from heat and lack of oxygen, which is typically 14-19 minutes. To ensure that there are repeat performances, the assistants then unlock the door.

Onofre explains that these noisy, stuffy, hidden performances are commentaries on the work of office workers in the area:

According to the artist behind the piece, the box is a symbol of the 'boxy' offices in the area where people work.

Onofre said: 'In this corporate architecture you do not see what is going on inside. The same thing is happening here.'

-via David Thompson, who quips, "Why parents rarely want their children to be artists, part 9."

Funny Pictures of the Day - NeatoPicto July 6, 2014

Posted: 06 Jul 2014 05:00 PM PDT

Raising Children Can Be A Terrifying Ordeal

Posted: 06 Jul 2014 04:00 PM PDT

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Any parent will tell you that raising children can sometimes be a terrifying affair, they don’t call them the terrible twos for nothing (although they should rename them the terrible two-to-fives), but there’s a singular joy in surviving the nightmare and living to see them grow up to become terribly moody teenagers.

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While they’re small you get to enjoy lots of messes, household disasters, and the occasional broken television set, along with lots of adorable moments that help you to forget those other nightmarish days.

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Don’t let the name of this BuzzFeed article fool you- 26 Important Reminders Why Birth Control Exists is just as much about how fun having a kid can be, despite the nightmarish days of mess and destruction, as it is a reminder to those who don’t have kids what it means to be a parent.

Revenge

Posted: 06 Jul 2014 03:00 PM PDT

Don’t we all have a tendency to overreact to someone else’s rudeness just a bit? The small everyday annoyances of life can become the biggest thing in your entire consciousness -for a minute. Then you realize how insignificant the matter is in the general scheme of life. And how many times do we all do something that other people find annoying that we aren’t even aware of? The latest comic from Lunar Baboon reminds me a little of Louis C.K.’s classic but NSFW routine about road rage.

Iranian Ripoff of TV's Modern Family Isn't So Modern

Posted: 06 Jul 2014 02:00 PM PDT


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Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Company's comedy television show Haft Sang is almost a scene-by-scene ripoff of ABC's Modern Family. Yet there is one glaring omission: the gay characters. Haft Sang, an unauthorized remake, has changed sexual preferences, genders and other traits of characters that don't fit in with their ultraconservative religious rules concerning sexuality, dating and interaction between males and females. 

Iranian fans of Modern Family (which they illegally download, because such American television shows are outlawed) compiled a video comparison illustrating how directly the Iranian show imitated Modern Family. Via Dangerous Minds. 

Everyone in This Bizarre Australian Town Lives Underground

Posted: 06 Jul 2014 01:00 PM PDT


(Photo: Nicholas Jones)

And you would, too, if your local temperatures regularly rose to 125ºF!

Coober Pedy is a mining town in Australia. If it weren't for the huge opal reserves here, no one would live in this hellscape that was used to shoot the post-apocalyptic film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.


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But that's only how it looks like from the surface. Go below, and you can find comfortable and well-decorated churches, a bar, and other amenities that you'd expect from a modern town. No one wants to spend a lot of time on the baking hot surface, so they cut rooms into the rock.


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There are about 1,500 homes in the town. They're called "dug outs." In a typical house, the kitchen and bathroom are on the surface or close to the entry hole because they need water access. But the rest is below ground.


(Photo: Werner Bayer)

The construction style does offer some advantages. When you need a new addition to your house, all you need to do to get started is cut a room out of a wall of your house. And since it's all opal mining territory, you may find valuable rock that can pay for the cost of the expansion.


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There's a fun bar called The Desert Cave. It can get loud there, but that's okay. Because the walls of every home in the town are made of rock, the noise from the bar won't disturb you.


(Photo: Charles Bukowsky)

When you do venture up onto the surface, keep in mind that you're in the middle of a mining complex. There are specific dangers that you'll have to worry about.


(Photo: Rob Chandler)

The barren landscape is unappealing to many people, but movie directors love it. It was ideal for Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and the 2000 Vin Diesel movie Pitch Black. That movie was about a spaceship that crashed into a desert on an alien world. When filmmakers wrapped up production of Pitch Black, they left the spaceship prop at Coober Pedy. It's now one of the local tourist attractions.

-via Glenn Reynolds

Real Life Squeaky Toy

Posted: 06 Jul 2014 12:00 PM PDT

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Brody the kitten is a real-life squeaky toy! You touch her, she squeaks. Sometimes she squeaks even if you don’t touch her. And if you don’t play with her, she’ll play with her feet! Isn’t she adorable, looking up with those baby blue eyes while chewing on a finger? See more videos of Brody. -via Tastefully Offensive

Beautiful Doors from Around the World

Posted: 06 Jul 2014 11:00 AM PDT


Jaipur, India
Image: payal.jhaveri

Doors obviously have a utilitarian purpose, but additionally they often hint at the aesthetic that lies within. Or they impress the observer with an air of mystery about what could be beyond such an exotic barrier. Featured here are examples from "30 Beautiful Doors that Seem to Lead to Other Worlds." Check them out and see which portals capture your imagination. 


Garden Door, Japan
Image: Anya Langmead



Valloria, Italy
Image: Socket974 


SoHo, New York City, New York
Image: Gary Burke



Montmartre, Paris, France
Image: John Kroll


Shanghai, China
Image: Sean Maynard



Bali, Indonesia
Image: Corinna A. Carlson 

Soviet-Era Banned Western Music Pressed Onto X-Rays

Posted: 06 Jul 2014 10:00 AM PDT

In Soviet Russia music from those Capitalist pigs in the West was strictly forbidden, and Russian black markets were full of forbidden items from the West such as jeans, Marlboro cigarettes, and VHS tapes of American movies, aka Captialist propaganda.

Now that the Iron Curtain has fallen (sort of) Russians are allowed to listen to anything they want, but how did the oppressed music loving masses of the past listen to their favorite Western artists like Elvis Presley and Duke Ellington?

(Image Via Jozsef Hajdu)

They pressed their own copies of these albums onto X-rays, of course! This delightfully artistic practice was an example of crafting for music lovers:

They would cut the X-ray into a crude circle with manicure scissors and use a cigarette to burn a hole," says author Anya von Bremzen. "You’d have Elvis on the lungs, Duke Ellington on Aunt Masha’s brain scan — forbidden Western music captured on the interiors of Soviet citizens."

-Via Juxtapoz

Busker in Korea Has Everyone Singing Along

Posted: 06 Jul 2014 09:00 AM PDT

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South African musician Aancod Abe Zaccarelli sings at the Seoul National University subway station in South Korea. The crowd must really like this song, because they all sing along! A good time was had by all... but now I wonder how many languages Zaccarelli sings in. The song is “One Candle” by g.o.d., you can hear the pop version here. -via Daily Picks and Flicks

10 Masterful Hair Artworks by Rob The Original

Posted: 06 Jul 2014 08:00 AM PDT

Some artists paint on canvas, others sculpt with clay, but not Rob the Original! The San Antonio, Texas-based master barber is a hair artist (or perhaps we should just call him the "hairtist"?). Check out what the man could do with a pair of scissors and a head of hair:

View more of Rob the Original's hair art over at his Instagram - Via Elite Daily

Everything You Need to Know About <i>A Hard Day’s Night</i> on Its 50th Anniversary

Posted: 06 Jul 2014 07:00 AM PDT

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The Beatles’ first movie, A Hard Day’s Night, was released to the public on July 6th, 1964, which is 50 years ago today. In honor of the occasion, the Criterion Collection spent 18 months restoring the available original negative reels of the film and remixing them with other sources to present in theaters and on home video. That's four times as long as it took to produce the original film! Mental_floss has an article on the restoration process.

In approaching any film restoration, the company abides by a set of principles that favors the integrity of the physical film itself over imposing their mark on it. “Our particular philosophy has been to use a light hand to try to retain the look and feel of film, and I think that’s what has happened here,” Becker says, “which is to say to honor the [film] grain, and to be sensitive to what makes a film image alive.”

In the case of A Hard Day's Night, the company's plan was to digitally scan the original source materials into 4K—giving the film a high definition resolution of four thousand pixels—at their in-house lab. But instead of using their countless digital restoration tools to over-stabilize, over-saturate, or clean the 24-frames-per-second images completely to make the movie totally digitally pristine, the Criterion team used the less-is-more mantra when necessary.

But before you go see it at a theater near you, you might want to get ready with other posts about A Hard Day’s Night.

Brush up on your movie trivia with 25 Things You Didn’t Know About A Hard Day’s Night. Here's a sample:

Model and artist Pattie Boyd appears in several scenes in the movie (she was one of the schoolgirls on the train, for example). Boyd fell in love with future husband George Harrison during filming.

The movie was called Yeah Yeah Yeah in Germany, Tutti Per Uno (All for One) in Italy, Quatre Garçons Dans Le Vent (Four Boys in the Wind) in France, Yeah! Yeah! Tässä tulemme! (Yeah! Yeah! Here We Come!) in Finland, and Os Reis do Iê-Iê-Iê (The Kings of Yeah-Yeah-Yeah) in Brazil.

19 Times A Hard Day’s Night Was One Of The Most Joyful Movies Ever Made.

The first time The Beatles saw A Hard Day's Night. They were so busy watching themselves that they missed what happened.

"She Loves You" by The Beatles. Also see our many other Beatles articles by Eddie Deezen.

For music and math geeks: Beatles Unknown "A Hard Day's Night" Chord Mystery Solved Using Fourier Transform.

And for fun, here’s A Hard Day's Night of the Living Dead.

Terrifyingly Huge Wasp Nest Consumes a Chair

Posted: 06 Jul 2014 06:00 AM PDT

Wayne's Bee's is a honey and honey bee removal company in Florida. A couple years ago, the proprietor was summoned to an old house in the coastal town of Hobe Sound. The new owners had discovered a massive yellow jacket wasp nest inside. It had covered an easy chair.

Perhaps there were even more nests throughout the house, but Wayne prudently decided that this job was above his pay grade. In this video, he briefly looks inside the house before noping out of there. Yellow jackets, Wayne explains, have a sting 20 times as painful as a honey bee. 


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