Author: ham

  • The Chemical History of a Candle

    I saw the other day an experiment which pleased me much, as I thought it would serve our purpose here. (I ought to have held my tongue for four or five minutes before beginning this experiment, because it depends upon my lungs for success.) By the proper application of air, I expect to be able to…

  • Cleaning Leather on Furniture

    Beat up the whites of three eggs carefully and use a piece of flannel to rub it well into the leather which will become clean and lustrous. For black leathers, some lampblack may be added and the mixture applied in the same way. —The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1

  • Ham and Eggs and Social Security

    Social Security History. Masthead from the National Ham and Eggs newspaper. In this issue, the group was promoting its recall drive against California governor Culbert Olson because in their view he had not honored his pre-election promise to support the pension scheme. From Wikipedia: Ham and Eggs Movement: The Ham and Eggs movement was an old-age…

  • Bacon and Eggs

    Now blest be the Briton, his beef and his beer, And all the strong waters that keep him in cheer, But blest beyond cattle and blest beyond kegs Is the brave British breakfast of bacon and eggs— Bacon and eggs, Bacon and eggs; Sing bacon, Red bacon, Red bacon and eggs! via Laudator Temporis Acti:…

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  • Elvira

  • Wesson Oil

  • Mary Jane Gulliver implicated in infamous experiment

    Figure 65: Jamet Brayer uses the multiracial peeping tommy gun (a) to observe the effects of heat on the egg out of which Mary Jane Gulliver is struggling to hatch.  The kosher calorimeter (b) is attached to the tommy gun by the caspasian umbilicus (c). A handscrew (d) allows Jamet to hone in on Mary Jane’s delicate…

  • How there was great strife and debate raised betwixt the cake-bakers of Lerne, and those of Gargantua’s country, whereupon were waged great wars.

    At last they overtook them, and took from them about four or five dozen of their cakes. Nevertheless they paid for them the ordinary price, and gave them over and above one hundred eggs and three baskets full of mulberries. —Pantagruel, Chapter XXV.

  • How they apparelled Gargantua

    As for the rings which his father would have him to wear, to renew the ancient mark of nobility, he had on the forefinger of his left hand a carbuncle as big as an ostrich’s egg, enchased very daintily in gold of the fineness of a Turkey seraph. —Chapter 1.VIII.