Take the Weed Outta Your Mouth, Susy, 1940
“take that weed outta your mouth, Susy!”, from Smash Comics in 1940
Tag: joke
The Biddeford Dozen, 1982
City Hall in Downtown Biddeford, Maine The Biddeford Dozen On a brisk April Fools morning in 1982, locals in the picturesque town of Biddeford, Maine woke up to a stoner mystery that has been left unsolved to this day! The Read More …
The Prime Minister’s Cow, 1970
“I was in Turkey and these guys invited me into one of the coffee shops and passed the hookah around and I smoked it. What was in it, I don’t know, probably some hash. Same thing in India (and) China. Read More …
The Expectant Hand, 1909
Union Square at the Broadway Bowery by Artist Albertus Del Orient Browere painted it from memory in 1885 The Expectant Hand One of my favorite articles from yesteryear… This story takes place right in present day Union Read More …
Halloween’s Hemp Seed Sow, 1850
Some merry friendly country folks Together did convene, To burn their nits upon their stocks, An hold their Halloween. – Robert Burns, 1855 Tam O’Shanter and the Witches, illustration by John Faed to the poem of Robert Burns 1855 Read More …
Revenge of the Hashishin’s, 1910
Et le soleil se coucha sur l’Adriatique (Sunset over the Adriatic)- And a name for the artist? Joachim-Raphael Boronali aka Aliboron aka Lolo the Donkey Revenge of the Hashishin’s Although the original Hashishin hangout the ‘Cabaret des Assassins’ in Read More …
Surrender Dorothy, 1974
A 1986 photo shows the Beltway overpass, Mormon Temple in Kensington in the background Surrender Dorothy Since its dedication in 1974, silhouetting the D.C. Landscape with a emerald city esq vision, the Mormon Temple in Kensington has Read More …
No Man From Mars, 1958
Jerry in underwear alien costume with police, 1958 No Man From Mars In 1958 following a UFO sighting, residents of Bad Axe, Michigan started seeing some strange things around town… Reports of a “little blue man” that would Read More …
Your using that wrong, 1910
“Dawn-sniffing revenant, Plodder through midnight rain, Question me again.” – Seamus Heaney image from High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry (1910) by champion of electro-therapeutics Samuel Howard Monell
Fishing with Hasheesh joke, 1901
Basalt Journal, Colorado newspaper September 7, 1901 In the local’s section The fisherman’s long tale goes up in smoke with hasheesh.