"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
I remember that we had a pair of these around the house when my brother and I were kids (not sure how we came by them; we also had some plastic vomit and Mexican jumping beans, so we might well have ordered this junk from a comic book, although I think it's more likely that we picked the stuff up in a "party pack" or some such thing at Woolworth's).
The glasses just create a fuzzy image with the object viewed having a kind of prominent outline that coincides with its shape. Definitely not Superman-level x-ray vision.
If you look through a feather you get that effect, so you make cardboard 'glasses', cut the feather to shape and glue in place. Amused us for a day or so as kids.
That's interesting. I'll have to try that sometime.
Speaking of birds, I was outside just now in the early evening and saw five or six hummingbirds buzzing around the flowers on our butterfly ginger plants. I don't blame them: the things smell very sweet, somewhat suggestive of gardenias.
I never heard of anyone actually buying one of those, but I do recall reading that ad and wondering if they actually worked.
ReplyDeleteI remember that we had a pair of these around the house when my brother and I were kids (not sure how we came by them; we also had some plastic vomit and Mexican jumping beans, so we might well have ordered this junk from a comic book, although I think it's more likely that we picked the stuff up in a "party pack" or some such thing at Woolworth's).
ReplyDeleteThe glasses just create a fuzzy image with the object viewed having a kind of prominent outline that coincides with its shape. Definitely not Superman-level x-ray vision.
We made our own with bird feathers.
ReplyDeleteIf you look through a feather you get that effect, so you make cardboard 'glasses', cut the feather to shape and glue in place. Amused us for a day or so as kids.
That's interesting. I'll have to try that sometime.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of birds, I was outside just now in the early evening and saw five or six hummingbirds buzzing around the flowers on our butterfly ginger plants. I don't blame them: the things smell very sweet, somewhat suggestive of gardenias.