Monday 10 December 2007

A mighty teapot

From Indonesian newspaper "Kompas", 13th September 1997, the biggest teapot I've ever seen.



A guy at work (not a native speaker of Indonesian) provided the following translation of the caption:

Pouring tea
A stylish waiter pouring tea, like in the picture. The nozzle of its mouth eclipses the length of an adult man's arm. Head of the Designer Tower, Shanghai and also Jakarta Tower (that has been built in the centre), Jiang Huangcheng (right), laughs looking at the scene.

Never outgrows your size

From "The Hindu" newspaper, January 18th, 1976, I bring you the Tantex Man:

Saturday 1 December 2007

Welcome, friends of Tantex

In the course of my work, I deal with specimens that arrive in newspaper. Mostly the newspapers are dull, or not in a language I understand, but sometimes there are the most fantastic incomprehensible cartoons and adverts and tiny, telling articles. I have a small accumulation of them, and I'd like to present them here, but please feel free to contribute any newspaper clippings that made you smile. If you know the newspaper and the date that it's from, so much the better. The address is: noahswife (at) gmail (dot) com

Newspapers from India, east Africa and anything pre-1970 are particularly rich I've found...