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  • A history of the Flowbee

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    A wonderfully weird TV advertising thing from the nightly television advertising loop. A Hair-Raising History of the Flowbee – mentalfloss (…)The Vacucut took hair anywhere from a half-inch to six inches in length and, thanks to the suction of the vacuum, pulled it straight in the same way a stylist holds hair between their fingers.(…)…

  • The Mountweazel – A Proud Animal

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    Today I learned (TIL as the cool kids would say?): Dictionary people are really scared that some other guys will steal all their beautiful work and put fake words in there, that they come up with. Those fictitious entries are called trap words or also mountweazels. Now this seems fairly weird for a book that…