Chinese Depicted on Indonesian Banknote – Construction Sacrifice (Borneo) – Fireworks Used by Dognappers (Ireland)

 

https://coconuts.co/jakarta/news/bi-denies-hoax-that-slant-eyed-boy-wearing-traditional-chinese-costume-in-new-idr75k-bill-not-indonesian/

 Coconuts Jakarta [Indonesia], 18 August 2020

 BI denies hoax that ‘slant-eyed’ boy wearing ‘traditional Chinese costume’ in new IDR75K bill not Indonesian

[…] A hoax that has been circulating on social media claims that a young boy featured on the new bill ⁠— one of nine children dressed in traditional costumes from across Indonesia ⁠— is wearing a “traditional Chinese costume.” The boy also happens to have slanted eyes, further fuelling the racist claim touted by anonymous users on Twitter." […]

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https://www.theborneopost.com/2020/09/01/story-of-pengait-targeting-children-untrue/

The Borneo Post [Malaysia], 1 September 2020

 Story of “pengait” targeting children untrue

LAHAD DATU: Police warn the public to stop spreading rumours that can cause unnecessary panic and chaos. District police chief ACP Nasri Mansor said this in response to rumour that “pengait” (headhunters) were targeting children for their heads for building construction. This rumour began spreading for the past two weeks in social media reminding parents to be cautious. […]

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https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/fireworks-dublin-dogs-dognapping-scary-18857874

 Dublin Live [Ireland], 1 September 2020

 Fireworks Dublin: Sinister and worrying reason behind loud banging noises as new dognapping method feared

Most of Dublin has been plagued with loud banging noises believed to be fireworks for the month of August. […] Dublin Live understands that these sounds may be the newest method by dognappers to mark houses around the capital for potential thefts. Cable ties, balloons and eerie markings had been used by the dog thieves over the summer months to mark a house with dogs so that they could come back at a quieter time to carry out the steal. But it is believed that the dognappers find this method more effective as the fireworks set off a sea of barking with the thieves able to quickly go from house to house by following the dogs' wails. […]

 

Three on a Match (Wanted Comics, 1950)

 “Three on a Match,” Wanted Comics #24, January 1950. 

 

Dr. Pepper Aids Breast Growth – Rule of Thumb – Clever Madman Avoids Being Committed

Bobbie Brown with Caroline Ryder, Dirty Rocker Boys (New York: Gallery Books, 2013), 34. (As a high school teenager, Brown lived near Baton Rouge, LA.)

My new best friend was Mona, a petite girl with big breasts and four sisters all as pretty as she was. She became an ally in my quest to become pretty enough to be a model. But what were we going to do about that chest of mine? I was still flat as a pancake.

 “If you drink Dr. Pepper, your tits will grow,” she told me.

 “Are you sure?” I asked.

 “Positive.”

 I drank so much Dr. Pepper that summer my tongue turned brown. Sad to say, my chest refused to blossom.

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Detail from “Facts About Crime,” Crimes by Women #14, August 1950. “In Massachusetts, according to an old law, a husband may not beat his wife with a stick bigger around than his thumb.” (Cf. Henry Ansgar Kelly, "Rule of Thumb and the Folklaw of the Husband's Stick,” Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 44, Iss. 3 (Sep 1, 1994): 341-65.)

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Jeffrey Sconce, The Technical Delusion (Durham: Duke University Press, 2019), 356-7, n. 37. A cunning lunatic on the way to a mental asylum succeeds in getting his escort committed instead of himself.

 

Unwitting Theft of Watch (1949 comic book story)

 “The Watch,” Real Clue Crime Stories, vol. 4, no. 5, July 1949.

Coming home from a café after midnight, a Buenos Aires businessman meets a man in the street who asks him to light his cigarette, which he does. The businessman then notices that his watch is missing. He catches the presumed pickpocket and threatens him with a gun. The man hands over his watch. The businessman then returns home and finds out he left his watch on the dresser in the morning. 

 

 

  

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The Graveyard Wager (comic book variant, 1947)

 “New Kind of Murder,” Real Clue Crime Stories, vol. 2, no. 9, November 1947. A comic book story based on “The Graveyard Wager.” To prove his bravery, a man agrees to drive a stake into a certain grave at midnight. He dies of fright after unknowingly driving the stake through his own coat.

 https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=40007

Lost Objects Found in Fish (Parodies)

Three parodies  of reports of a personal object (watch, ring, etc.) found in a fish by the person who had lost it.

B. A. Botkin, ed., A Treasury of American Anecdotes (New York: Random House, 1957), 266, citing Jacob Richman, Jewish Wit and Wisdom (New York: Pardes Publishing House, 1952), 316.

Ernie Kovacs (writer), Wallace Wood (artist), “Strangely Believe It!”, MAD magazine #37, vol. 1, no. 37, Jan. 1958, p. 34. “PETER J. EVERSHAM, Owner Of A Fish Store In BROOKLYN, N.Y. LOST HIS SPECTACLES OVERBOARD DURING AN OCEAN VOYAGE IN 1951. FOUR YEARS LATER, WHILE CUTTING OPEN A FISH, PETER FELT HIS KNIFE STRIKE SOMETHING HARD. It was his thumb.” 

“Believe It Or NUTS!” This Magazine Is Crazy, vol. 3, no. 4, Feb. 1958, p. 32.