“I’ll collar a vertical care-grinder come Saint Geoffrey’s Day.”

Let’s dissect:

collar (v) to get, to obtain, to comprehend. Ex. “I gotta collar me some food”, “Do you collar this jive?” (Cab Calloway’s Cat-ologue 1939)

Vertical Care-Grinder: a slang term for the treadmill (The slang dictionary: or, the vulgar words, street phrases and fast expressions of high and low society by John Camden Hotten, 1870 )

SAINT GEOFFREY’S DAY. Never, there being no saint of that name: tomorrow-come-never, when two Sundays come together. (Passing English of the Victorian era : a dictionary of heterodox English, slang and phrase by Andrew Forrester in 1909)

To sum up:  “I’ll never get a treadmill.”   …didn’t it sound better in slang?

Every October, artists all over the world take on the InkTober drawing challenge by doing one ink drawing a day the entire month.

Inktober, 31 days, 31 drawings

Source: The InkTober Initiative – Mr Jake Parker

Time again for every instagram, twitter and tumblr dashboard to blow up with inktober drawings.  There is so much amazing art out there I think it kind of makes up for me not getting my head wrapped around it one this year.

If Inktober isn’t your thing, there is always Drawlloween:

Source: drawlloween

My search for author voices in the copyright debate leads me to old newspapers and magazines. I thought Judge magazine would bear more copyright fruit than it did, however, it did include this little gem about happenings in my home state.  The gentleman is saying:  “Pardon me, madam, but could I borrow your infant for a few hours tomorrow night.  I want to use him to attract alligators.”

And this other pictures is just pretty, and pretty sneaky. I might be dense, but I didn’t get it until I looked at it for the third time.

I was looking through old magazine images and ads and found these. Pretty standard creepy face for your face, a tonic to turn people into pigs and….what’s going on in the Pear’s soap ad?