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Instructions, Lists, and Notes
http://instructionslistsandnotes.com
A blog of found and literary Instructions, Lists and Notes.
- Added on: Nov 10th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Bryan Lee Peterson
- Listed in: Observational Humor Writing
- Tags: lists magazine notes literary found instructions
Recent Posts
Edmund Wilson’s Decline Letter
via The Four day Work Week. Billed as a way to save time, if you wind up getting a lot of requests for the same thing, you may be able to save time by emulating this. ...
List of Collective Nouns for the supernatural
Via Wondermark Wondermark is a fantastic Edwardian style comic strip by David Malki. You should go check it out. ...
A coded message to the CA legislature
via Boing Boing When Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoes a law, he does it with….not class….well, with a certain flair for one-liners possibly inherited from his movie roles. Here’s his message: ...
JFK’s non-autograph
via Letters of Note In 1961, New York Post columnist Leonard Lyons contacted John F. Kennedy after seeing Presidential autographs for sale in a store. At the time, George Washington’s was priced at $175, Ulysses S. Grant’s at $55, Franklin D....
The General Motors Liberator
During WWII, General Motors made a small handgun out of pressed sheet metal. It was designed to be made cheaply and smuggled into occupied Europe for resistance forces. The barrel was not rifled, so it was an up close and personal weapon, “accu...
How to write a telegram
From The telegraph office The extraordinary expansion of the telegraph companies of the United States during the last two decades and the constantly increasing volume of their traffic are proof that the American people are utilizing the telegraph tod...
