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When I worked as a clown I had a bit I did for younger kids, "The Flea Circus", in which with a concealed pencil and sheet of plain white paper I'd try to persuade a group of suspicious 5 year-olds that there were indeed fleas doing all sorts of acrobatics and stunts. They were pretty skeptical, but with my free left hand hidden under the paper playing the role of "Escaped Flea", dispensing abundant pinches to the unbelievers, I managed to bring them all back into the fold...
Imagine my surprise when I found out there was actually such a thing!
Links: Wiki on the Flea Circus, http://flea-circus.com/
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9BjN_GHIic, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQLPhS1N9pc
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It's been kinda the meme of the week, that Chasity belts in fact probably never existed, and if they did were more for novelty use and whipped up for museums.
I console myself with the thought that "Fury Road" is set in the future.
That said, the more literal and kinky members of society have been quick to embrace them, and six centuries later there's any number of suppliers to be found online. I'll let you do your own research there...
There were, however, any number of ideas for anti-erection and anti-mastubatory devices patented. I'd be curious to see the resultant psychology of any child that suffered an adolescence wearing one of these:
More at (appropriately enough) Christwire. I'm not making this up, they even added their website to the image - clearly any self-respecting anti-mastubator or erectionist would want a Jesus branded and approved product, although I have to say I think I have a very different understanding of both arousing and the Bible than they do.
And, finally, proof that the more things change, the more they stay the same - anti-erection boxers, to save your child from the embarrassment of a poorly timed boner.
It's a wonderful world.
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It's tempting to embed links, a quick search will find you all the moving videos you can stand (Try: "People trying on Enchroma glasses for first time"). Not being colorblind (despite obviously poor fashion & artistic choices), I have a hard time imagining what they're going through, but I'm curious where they'll take this - imagining the sensory "add-ons" or mods they'll be able to do for regular "sighted" people; things like viewing into the infra-red, or UV, spectrums, or viewing the polarization of light, the possibilities are indeed endless...
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A curious site, purportedly by a deranged mathematician, follow the links from page to page and try and figure it out...
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Waiting for the boy, a pleasantly rainy day turned into an annoying hot and sunny oven, Cafe Beano, Calgary's own haven for hipsters, surrounded on all sides by men and women writing in their journals.
These journals, some are big affairs, some are smaller, more pocket notebook, always they are spread out upon the table, the handwriting of each author and authoress an indication (I presume) of the quality of prose within, the lady beside me at the moment, schoolgirl writing, large journal, dollar store, half filled already, odd, I notice, she manages to justify in her cursive script both the left and the right margins....
...and the gentleman to the right of me, his a smaller affair, but almost done, dense, cribbed staccato writing in a small notebook, everyone, at this moment, has a notebook in front of them that their vigorously writing in, and a paperback or hardcover novel displayed on the table as an invitation to conversation or debate, me, I'm reading my novel, my journal is closed, the most I ever make are laundry or shopping lists...
But I have an idea. Actually, a couple of ideas, one broached by my left neighbors abandonment of her journal (and curiosity overwhelms me, she's so diligent, meticulous, thorough, how long will she be in the bathroom? I'm nothing if not curious....)
So I conceive the grand thought of photographing her journal, easy enough to replace (dollarama, $3 art sketch book), making a font out of her handwriting, and using a computer and one of those handwriting machines to reproduce it in it's every detail, except in lieu of her own entries (whatever they are, voluminous as they are...) with first person short stories from the Olympia reader....
Gaslighting extraordinaire, so that when they review their notes they discover another person, a new person, completely different than the characters or plots they were working upon, but in their own hand, in their own journal...and I'm charmed at the possibilities...
The boy, he simply tells me he's glad I didn't pursue my studies in Psychology, my defenses as to: "It's research, experimental..." fall largely on deaf ears...
And so I have another idea, a little more feasible, practicable. The Beano Anthology. Somebody, presumably a great deal more charming and persuasive than myself, persuades each of the writers in Beano, (hundreds, if not thousands), to offer a sample of their script and writing to be compiled into a volume that will be known as The Beano Anthology. Copies will be for sale at the counter with your Chai latte or Vietnamese iced coffee. Those writers that actually make a living at it will be charmed into including a short work to help their struggling brethren, vanity being a huge motivating force, I've noticed, and those unpublished will be grateful enough to bare their innermost souls and hopes for the possibility of understanding and recognition. Hmmm...
The script, or handwriting samples, they're provided to merely correlate the quality of handwriting with the quality of prose, my own theories debunked or validated...