Comments on: Household Tasks Simplified With These New Inventions (May, 1932)

By: nlpnt

nlpnt — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:07:00 +0000

Now all we need is for someone to make CFL-shaped salt and pepper shakers.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:14:17 +0000

Toronto: Actually I have no idea. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it in PM from the 40′s…

By: Charlene

Charlene — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:37:00 +0000

Not only does a slice of cake weighing 2 oz. not need to be supported on the top, it doesn’t need some chunk of metal pushing down on the top and mucking up the frosting.

By: Toronto

Toronto — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:40:40 +0000

Ah, Tool-Dip/Plasti-Dip. It’s freakin’ expensive in Canada for some reason.

Hey, Charlie – what’s the earliest reference to that stuff in the literature? PM/MI/PS, etc, I mean.

By: StanFlouride

StanFlouride — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 03:59:28 +0000

I am definitely going to buy my arthritic step-dad a new oil filter wrench to open jars! I’ll probably put several layers of rubber Tool-Dip on the handle to make it more Oxo like.

By: George

George — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:17:59 +0000

That do everything dishwasher reminds me of an uncle’s Kirby vacuum cleaner. This was in the fifties, I was looking through the thick instruction manual for the device and saw a bewildering array of attachments available. Besides the usual assortment of wands, brushes, crevice tools, etc., there was a wide assortment of unrelated things that essentially used the vacuum just for the motor. There was a polishing wheel, blender, knife sharpener, paint sprayer, and even a circular saw! It probably cost more than his scandalously expensive 24 inch TV set. (It was quite a treat to watch the Rose Bowl Parade on his giant black and white screen)

By: Al Bear

Al Bear — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:36:20 +0000

At first I thought the thing on the right page on top of the egg looks like a light bulb.

By: beagledad

beagledad — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:03:52 +0000

It took me a minute to figure out what I was looking at in the birthday cake picture. My first impression was a magnification of bacterial colonies growing in a petri dish, but the three lights above them were perplexing.

By: LightningRose

LightningRose — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:43:55 +0000

Strap wrenches are great for removing jar lids.

By: Eamon

Eamon — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:17:06 +0000

Eh, I watched March of the Wooden Soldiers this weekend and now I see him everywhere.

Also, cocktail maker and exercise machine combo? Sign me up. And I just saw an infomercial for that jar opener.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:56:53 +0000

Stan Laurel! Good one Eamon! As to the machine he-she is operating, apparently it does just about everything around the house so why don’t we still have it now or did it disappear in yet another government cover-up?

By: Eamon

Eamon — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:08:54 +0000

Is that Stan Laurel in drag?