Posts by Dr. Boli

WHERE ART COMES FROM.

Posted by Dr. Boli on March 3, 2025. No comments.

Joseph P. Cowan Frame and Portrait Stores

One of the notorious art sweatshops of Pittsburgh in the late nineteenth century. Banks of degraded young women sat at easels twelve hours a day, dreaming of a time when they might escape to a life of dignified prostitution. This is why art is no longer accepted in respectable homes.

From DR. BOLI’S UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY.

Posted by Dr. Boli on March 2, 2025. No comments.

Doubloon (noun).—A loon with twice the usual and customary allotment of lunacy.

COMMON FOOD WARNING LABELS.

Posted by Dr. Boli on March 1, 2025. No comments.

Caution: delicious. You will eat too much of this.

Warning: This product contains chemicals known to the state of California.

Do not eat. Will spoil your appetite for supper.

THE END.

Posted by Dr. Boli on February 28, 2025. 5 comments.

Transcribed below. The typewriter is a 1960 Royal Heritage.

The Transcription.

THE POWERED LIFE.

Posted by Dr. Boli on February 27, 2025. No comments.

Transcribed below. The typewriter is a Smith-Corona Electra 120 from about 1969.

The Transcription.

SURF AND TURF.

Posted by Dr. Boli on February 26, 2025. No comments.

Transcribed below. The typewriter is a 1969 Penncrest Caravelle 12, made for J. C. Penney by Smith-Corona.

The Transcription.

THE ROYAL MESS.

Posted by Dr. Boli on February 25, 2025. No comments.

Transcribed below. The typewriter is a 1949 Royal Quiet De Luxe with Elite type. In all other respects it is identical to the 1949 Quiet De Luxe with Pica type we met earlier, but of course it is necessary to have both.

What comes next, if you follow this link, is the transcription.

NOTE FROM A WORM.

Posted by Dr. Boli on February 24, 2025. 3 comments.

Transcribed below. The typewriter is a Royal KMM.

And now, the transcription.

A PERTINENT QUESTION.

Posted by Dr. Boli on February 23, 2025. 2 comments.

Transcribed below. The typewriter is a Smith Corona DeVille 80, probably made in the 1980s. Since Smith Corona produced a bewildering variety of not-quite-identical electronic typewriters, this is the only unit of its model in the Typewriter Database so far.

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ONE IN A MILLION.

Posted by Dr. Boli on February 22, 2025. No comments.

Transcribed below. The typewriter is a Royal Companion from 1956.

The Transcription.