Acid Attack!!!

The Hope Chest is collecting some great old-timey newspaper stories about acid attacks by various people (including mothers, fathers, random strangers) on various others (including draftees, children, and horses).

Guess Where?

More stupid crap going down in Florida. A couple was robbed for a bucket of chicken. Nice going once again, Florida!

Old-timey Slang of the Day

chickie: basically, the same as "cheese it!" as in, "Chickie, it's the cops!"

Steal This Building

Well, this is ironic, dontcha think?

Don't Steal Movies or I Will Turn You Into a Skull

This is old, but great, and I forgot about it until today, and it's never not a good day to show people the creepiest, weirdest anti-piracy ad you've ever seen.

Here's the youtube:

Old-timey Slang of the Day

refrigerator: a prison

Old-timey Slang of the Day

This one requires the full dictionary definition again. It's another lovely phrase. I haven't heard this one before, even in old movies, though it has the ring of 1930s gangster movie lingo. The old dictionary I found this in didn't list dates for the period in which this word was in use, so maybe it predates the age of Edward G. Robinson and Jimmy Cagney.

clutch the gummy: "To fail; to be left to take the blame; to be cheated. Orig. on model of 'hold the bag' = to clutch the gunny bag or sack; reinforced by 'gummy' = sticky."

Cons

I like a good con artist story. Here's a pretty interesting one. Apparently, a woman disguised as a male army major conned a bunch of women out of a bunch of money over in China. The best part of this article is where the investigators become convinced that something is a bit off when they hear the fake major's "high-pitched voice."

ADDED: If this was primarily an internet scam, why did this person go around dressed up in uniform? Were the police really unsure this was a lady looks like a dude? Is ananova.com trying to fool me into thinking this is a news of the weird story, or is it really a news of the weird story? Hmmm....