And now for something completely different

Well well, this needed its own post, for sanitation purposes. You'll notice in the photo of the book haul, the skinny red book Jokes for the John. (c) 1961 Kanrom Inc, no author is credited.

Excerpted from the preface:

IT'S A GAS MAN!!! (sic) For the prennially pooped, we offer you hormones in print. Someone has pulled our chain again, so relax, loosen your tie and get ready to howl around like a hopped-up Tomcat.

Here, for your idle reading enjoyment is a new volume of lusty, gusty,and busty humor, that's been responsible for more blushes than an open zipper at an old maid's picnic.

This is the book that put the smoke into the clubcars.
This is the book that Lolita is afraid to bring home to father.
This is the book that everyone out of their skulls are consulting their psychiatrists about.

(formatting original)

To be honest, most of the cartoons are tired jokes about boring marriages/cheating on your wife, lame things that don't make a lot of sense nor have a lot to do with sex (false advertising!) or just innocuously 'naughty' boredom.

However, there are exceptions which I've taken the time to scan, just for you. Please look beyond the cut, as content may be borderline questionable or even offensive depending on your sensitivity level...

Sometimes it's the little things

...that put a smile on your face:
what a thoroughly unpleasant woman

That's a good start, but there are still more media figures to be publicly shamed for being terrible human beings-- so let's get on that right away.

Copyright 1952, 1971 printing


Instead of Touhou remix, today it's Vocaloids:

In case you don't know about it, Vocaloid is a computer program that simulates voices and can be programmed to sing whatever words you want. People obsess over them, draw them, make them sing bajillions of popular songs, and even write and produce original songs for them. This is an original song and I think it's really pretty.

I don't know if all the vocaloid models are like this, but I was informed that Megurine Luka (the pink haired character) was programmed from a sample of a voice actress (I forget her name but she was Sakaki in Azumanga Daioh, and I always thought she had a pretty voice.) The blue haired character is Hatsune Miku. She sounds a little high pitched and girly for my preference, but sounds alright when she's put in with Luka. Luka is the best sounding one. There are guy vocaloids too, but I don't really care about guy singers that much.

Interestingly all of their names contain a kanji for 'sound', which is the 'ne'

It probably sounds weird, but I've heard at least a couple of Luka ones that I wouldn't have been able to recognize as a simulator if I didn't already know what it was. YMMV though, and some are programmed better than others although I have no idea how that works.

That's your daily nerd information that no one really needed to know, and I'm ashamed of being able to retain that many facts about something so irrelevant, but my brain just works that way.