All in these fine postcards from the early 20th century courtesy of velorution. This bunch are all by an Italian artist A. Rissotti.
Here is the German:
-don't all Germans puff cigars while riding?
And of course, all Americans dress like Uncle Sam:
Dig the hat and mustache bars:
How 'bout wooden wheels while you walk the dog:
Fez anyone?
Care for a serenade?
Before the revolution:
The bikes haven't changed much since:
I guess we can see what Rissotti thought of Austrians:
…and the English:
And last, the French:
I'll have to give props to someone linking to meekmok.com but more props for the comment.
http://shakespeareinthepark.blogspot.com/2004/12/ok-i-lied.html
"check out this link www.meekmok.com for possibly the best modern definition of sisyphan task. Those poor bastards."
type:
http:s//foo.com
into your browser. Report back your browser results
apparently searching for "s" in google returns mcdonalds.com
When I was an Undergrad at UCSD there was an ongoing tradition of writing anonymously on walls in various halls on campus. A sort of informal analogue blogging that was going on as people wrote about their life, invited comments and whatnot.
One of the former writers has detailed the history of it here:
http://planetmind.net/peeps/towers.txt
I spent many an hour reading and following discussions up the 7 floor spiral staircase in HSS.
