There’s a guided tour of the Jim Crow Museum here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIHvQngdR7o
The picture looks like it might be the front of a postcard. If it seems too risque for the US Post Office, there’s a small collection of similar cards here:
Ah, a classic genetic case study; dry earwax is linked to a either single base substitution of adenine for quanine at position 538 of exon 4 (the very first discovered single nucleotide polymorphism which was known to have a visible phenotypic effect), or a 27-base deletion in exon 29, of the ATP-binding cassette C11 (ABCC11) gene. It hampers a putative antibacterial action of wet earwax, but intriguingly this mutation is also linked to considerably reduced body odor.
Was mentioned in a paper I was reading at the weekend.
You can bet your sweet ass that you’ll see that again (it’s doesn’t quite rise to the category of “backwoods redneck trash,” but it’s a keeper nevertheless).
Wow! Al Jolson makes an appearance in Frog Applause!
Did you know that earwax is part of your immune system?
I wonder if that animal-killing kid had anything to do with that overturned pig truck. It’s an unsettling juxtaposition, like Dennis the Menace telling his mom he sees her petrified skull.
AWARD WINNER WITH WINNING POSTER’Cause it should be “abuser” to fix the meter, right? Well, not just the meter needed fixing ’cause some people need to use drugs to stay alive or functional.
Randy B Premium Member over 11 years ago
Is it sticky?
The Old Wolf over 11 years ago
Mine’s genetically dry, and falls out at the most inopportune times. Always embarrassing me, it is.
FLIGHT SUIT over 11 years ago
Disgustamundo!
Randy B Premium Member over 11 years ago
Just standing around, cerumenating…
Superfrog over 11 years ago
You’re using it as a hair gel, aren’t you.
pcolli over 11 years ago
Blog: goose.Serves the kid right for peeing through the fence.
el8 over 11 years ago
Mine must have bees in it because there’s this constant buzzing in my ears.
Crumbucket over 11 years ago
None of your beeswax!
pcolli over 11 years ago
Blog (Utah baby names).I notice one of the girls names is “Apathy” Does this indicate that neither parent could be bothered to use contaception?
Bill Thompson over 11 years ago
Re: racist watercolor on the blog. I couldn’t find anything on-line, but you might contact this museum:
http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/news/jimcrow/index.htm
There’s a guided tour of the Jim Crow Museum here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIHvQngdR7o
The picture looks like it might be the front of a postcard. If it seems too risque for the US Post Office, there’s a small collection of similar cards here:
http://www.authentichistory.com/diversity/african/3-coon/2-pickaninny/index.html
J Short over 11 years ago
Mine gets wet when you talk that way.
PICTO over 11 years ago
I used to wax my ears, until one day, the buffer pad on the polisher came loose…..
S over 11 years ago
Nope, can’t say that it is.
GoodQuestion Premium Member over 11 years ago
Looks like The Man From UnCool – . . . . .☻
finale over 11 years ago
A study by the Topeka University Reasearch Department will verify this in 2014.
Sisyphos over 11 years ago
Hey, Slick, you a lawyer or something? —Get a warrant if want to sample MY earwax!
lbatik over 11 years ago
Ah, a classic genetic case study; dry earwax is linked to a either single base substitution of adenine for quanine at position 538 of exon 4 (the very first discovered single nucleotide polymorphism which was known to have a visible phenotypic effect), or a 27-base deletion in exon 29, of the ATP-binding cassette C11 (ABCC11) gene. It hampers a putative antibacterial action of wet earwax, but intriguingly this mutation is also linked to considerably reduced body odor.
Was mentioned in a paper I was reading at the weekend.
Thrilling stuff.
Treerabbit over 11 years ago
Mine is smooth and creamy, thank you very much.But it’s all due to willpower, and nothing to do with genetics! I tell you, earwax is all in the mind.
Rotifer NOT GETTING RUBEN BOLLING’S PIN Thalweg Premium Member over 11 years ago
Re: “… bitter disgruntled cartoonist.”
You can bet your sweet ass that you’ll see that again (it’s doesn’t quite rise to the category of “backwoods redneck trash,” but it’s a keeper nevertheless).
coltish1 over 11 years ago
Wow! Al Jolson makes an appearance in Frog Applause!
Did you know that earwax is part of your immune system?
I wonder if that animal-killing kid had anything to do with that overturned pig truck. It’s an unsettling juxtaposition, like Dennis the Menace telling his mom he sees her petrified skull.
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 11 years ago
i wonder who his tailor is.
APersonOfInterest over 11 years ago
Difficult to explain, but I find the Barbie heads in jars profoundly creepy!!!
prrdh over 11 years ago
I can’t imagine how any woman could resist that pickup line. It’s even better than “What’s your sign?”
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 11 years ago
do three girls, a six pack make?
APersonOfInterest over 11 years ago
The wet earwax guy looks a bit like Harry Houdini.
Nighthawks Premium Member over 11 years ago
Harry Houdini?hm. ….darn! his face escapes me
Steve.Hardison over 11 years ago
It’s earwax. No. It’s dessert topping. Wait, it’s both!
Linguist over 11 years ago
No one seems to want to “candle” his ears.
Larry Miller Premium Member over 11 years ago
Linguist almost preempted my comment…Dang, if it’s wet, the earwax candles won’t light. Or maybe they will and there’ll be a cool sputtering effect.
Larry Miller Premium Member over 11 years ago
AWARD WINNER WITH WINNING POSTER’Cause it should be “abuser” to fix the meter, right? Well, not just the meter needed fixing ’cause some people need to use drugs to stay alive or functional.
booktrout over 11 years ago
blog "Altered Comic’ : He ran over a seal with his bike?
Cat43ullus over 11 years ago
It has nothing to do with his girlfriend’s tongue.
lbatik over 11 years ago
Sorry, it’s dedicated to non-exclusive relationships.
APersonOfInterest over 11 years ago
The Dorothy Dandridge photo is wonderful. For reasons that I can only guess at, she has held my interest for many years.
APersonOfInterest over 11 years ago
Guess one might say that I don’t understand some of the forces that drive my actions and/or interest.
6turtle9 over 11 years ago
Is it wrong to love your testing helmet if it allows you to crush your spine and live to tell about it?
6turtle9 over 11 years ago
What are the ghostly images in the Dorothy Dandridge photo, in front of the out of focus background and behind the beguiling foreground?