The Weird Wide Web 24 Jun 2005 10:47 pm

when is a hat like a chair?

Cam: “Why is a hen on a fence like a penny?”
Josh: “Neither of them have teeth?”

Via Peter Pereira’s blog, a collection of antique cigarette cards with various conundrums.

And speaking of neat antique paper things scanned in on the web, des chapeaux is a collection of vintage advertisements for hats. Some of them are lovely. Others remind me of Peg Bracken’s admonishment about being photographed: “Don’t wear a hat, because no matter how smart the hat is now, posterity will snicker.”

2 Responses to “when is a hat like a chair?”

  1. on 25 Jun 2005 at 5:15 am 1.Rechercher said …

    Very cool, but what about the answers? Should we post the entire collection on werdle and have entire group tackle them? Or are the answers somewhere else hidden that I just didn’t see?

  2. on 25 Jun 2005 at 11:09 am 2.Cam Sculpin said …

    The questions are more fun than the answers. But you can see the answers by selecting “View Image Details” and then “View Verso”.

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