Weird anti-drug PSAs

My personal favorite of these anti-drug PSAs is The Chicken Club - here's the youtube info:

This is a legitimate anti-drug music video (from the 80''s) conceived and created to let youngsters know that if they were confronted with the temptation to do drugs they could say "no" with confidence. Even if the person propositioning the child called them a "chicken" (as a last ditch effort to persuade the kid to change their mind) the youth could fire back with the completely unexpected answer, "That's right, I am a chicken and it's OK because there is this sweet music video that told me that it's cool to be a chicken. So your taunts, jeers and name calling will not make me change my mind, in fact they only strengthen my resolve. I'm not only a chicken...I'm in the Chicken Club!"

I would really like one of these Surfing Monkey Banks, please - story below the video:

Dangerous Minds had a post about the Surfing Monkey PSA in 2012 and heard from the creator, Greg Collins:

I’m one of the creators of that surfing monkey spot you threw up on Dangerous Minds this afternoon. Thanks for doing that.

Apparently you can buy these now.

That spot actually dates back to 1999. A buddy of mine and his wife totally smoked out one night. The next morning, they woke up on the sofa, their ribs and stomach muscles were hurting. They didn’t remember much of anything, other than laughing their asses off.

About a week later, a UPS guy knocked on their door, bearing some boxes from QVC. While they were all gassed out, they bought a Star Trek collector’s plate, a Chi-Wash-Wa home car washing system and a Michael Jordan in-flight pewter statuette. All in all, about $400. That must’ve been some great weed.

When they told me the story, I thought that’d make an awesome commercial, but all of that was too much to put into a :30 spot. We needed to drill it down to one item for simplicity and comedy’s sake. My buddy Greg hit on the idea of something really ridiculous like a surfing monkey coin bank. We shot the spot for like $300 and sold it through to the Partnership For A Drug-Free America. It ran in 1999-2000, and, to this day, remains one of their most beloved and recalled commercials.

And once you've moved on from the madness of reefer, here's LSD, A Case Study (turn down the sound - there's a very loud screaming hot dog):

via Flavorwire, where you can find more.

Tuesday links

"A woman drove me to drink, and I never even had the courtesy to thank her." It's W. C. Fields' birthday: quotes, a brief bio and film clips (including a "best of" compilation).

The cow toilet (with video).

1915 footage of Monet, Renoir, Rodin & Degas.

PSAs on movie theater etiquette from 100 years ago.

Here's how to go invisible online.

What It’s Like to Be Declared Dead by the Government.

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include how a group of bootleggers created NASCAR, people who operated on themselves, Australia Day, and the Brady Bunch conspiracy theory.

PSAs on movie theater etiquette from 100 years ago

These lantern slides on silent movie theatre etiquette from the 1910s show that inconsiderate audience members have existed since the dawn of cinema. 

Most early movie theaters had only one projector so “etiquette slides” were used to divert the audience while reels were being changed. These glass slides often featured lighthearted instructions for proper behavior while viewing a film.

They're collected in Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture.

I don't get this one - what else would you use?

From Old Hollywood, via Boing Boing.

Blogging will be (and has been) light to non-existent for a while

Couple of weeks, at least - family busy-ness. If you're bored, here's the archive of link posts.

Friday links

From 1960, here's how to build your own fallout shelter.

World War II Prison Camp Music.

Is beaming down in Star Trek a death sentence? Is it still you on the other side, or is it a copy?

Weird anti-drug PSAs.

Why We Yawn.

Scientists have found an octopus city.

ICYMI, Monday's links are here, and include a brief history of hypnotic breast enlargement, the post-mortem journey of Buffalo Bill's corpse, and composer Dimitri Shostakovich's birthday