"From offstage, we hear the scream of a naked woman"

Jack Vizzard, See No Evil (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970), 99. Vizzard and Metzger worked as censors for the Motion Picture Production Code Association.

 

Peanut Butter Incident at the Induction Center

Richard Dorson, America in Legend. Folklore from the Colonial Period to the Present. New York, 1973, p. 306. Dorson found this legend in an issue of the Berkeley Barb published sometime in 1969.

This is the best story I ever heard of getting out of the draft. This guy shoved crunchy peanut butter up his ass before going to his physical. When the time came to have asses examined, he pulled his pants down, and just as the captain was approaching him reached back and got some peanut butter from his ass and ate it.

It grossed out the captain so badly, he just let him out.

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Sherry Gershon Gottlieb, Hell No, We Won’t Go! Resisting the Draft During the Vietnam War. New York: Viking, 1991, 62.

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George DiCaprio (script), Jim Janes (art), “Great Moments of the Fifties,” detail, Greaser Comics #2, Rip Off Press, July 1972.

 

 

Indian Pols Fear Jinxes – Chocolate Sellers Pepper Spray Homeowners – Bears & Menstruating Women

 https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/cms-keep-away-from-jinxed-seats-in-mp/article32877298.ece

 The Hindu, 17 October 2020

 CMs keep away from ‘jinxed’ seats in M.P.

 It is believed if the Chief Minister steps inside Ashoknagar Assembly constituency, he loses the next election. In the past 17 years, none has visited the city. And ahead of the by-election in November, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan too didn’t take chances. […] Similarly, it is believed whoever organises a meeting from the Ramleela stage of the Mela Maidan of Bhander in Datia district loses power, said a local Congress leader requesting anonymity. […] The Ichhawar Vidhan Sabha seat in Sehore district is another seat considered ‘jinxed’ by the CMs. “The belief is not the stand of any government, but held by locals,” Mr. Agrawal said. It is also believed that if a campaigner for the Madhanta seat lands at the Narmadanagar helipad, the candidate loses. […]

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/social-media-posts-false-chocolates-pepper-spray-1.5789287

 CBC News [Canada], 4 November 2020

 Police field dozens of calls over false social media posts about homeowners being pepper sprayed

 Hamilton [Ontario] Police are reporting dozens of calls regarding a false social media post about someone going door-to-door selling chocolates and then subsequently pepper spraying the homeowner. In a post on Twitter, Hamilton police said they received more than 30 calls over a 24-hour period relating to the online posts, which investigators have subsequently determined to be a hoax. […]

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“True Facts About Bears.” Gabrielle Bell, Inappropriate (Minneapolis: Uncivilized Books, 2020), 90. Two of ten panels. “It is a myth that a bear is more likely to attack a menstruating woman. Except for the polar bear….”