The Star Made Me Buy It

Yet another ad for Camels, this one with Cole Porter and Patricia Morison.

And also with Gene Bearden, Gladys Swarthout, Jeanne Wilson, Gene Sarazen, Sylvia MacNeal (or McNeil or McMeal - I can't find where I out the original ad), Dusty Campbell.  

Bearden was a baseball player (here's an interesting story about him and stolen valor:  https://lepplin.substack.com/p/the-mystery-of-gene-bearden)

 Swarthout was an opera singer

Wilson was an Olympic swimmer.

Sarazen was a professional golfer

Sylvia McSomething is obviously not Google-able.

Campbell was a sport fisherman.  

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Cole Porter was a great song writer, but his presentation was short - 5'6" - scrawny and not terribly good-looking.

Not that there's something wrong with being short, scrawny and not terribly good-looking.  

Porter was played by Cary Grant in the film Night and Day.  Cary Grant stood 6'2", was not scrawny in the least, and was among the most handsome two or three stars who ever walked on a movie lot.  Ever.

Therein lies the problem.

As for Patricia Morison, I don't have much to say about her, other than the fact that she died at age 103.  

Found Online

This one, which was quite a hoot, was reported in a bunch of places.

From Turkey - or Türkiye - which is a country that is very fond of cats.

Lucky Dip

Welcome to July 2026's first Lucky Dip !!

Wanna see?

 A Snake-tastic tie, no?

(YES)

I was gonna characterize this tie as snakey, as I remember reading in an old book from the 1920s, where snakey was used to characterize something as super novel and neato.  Went online to confirm this was still the definition, but all I came up with was that today it means 'deceitful.'

Anyhoo, there are an astonishing 600 ties in my Zazzle shop.  

Get the tie here: www.zazzle.com/snake_print_tie-256195899612688005

And go here to see the other 599:  www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?ps=72&qs=tie       

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 A VERY appealing songbird button.

Get it here:  www.zazzle.com/songbird_button-256734095641073909

We have even more buttons than ties!

So see the other 623 ties here:  www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?ps=72&qs=button

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Alert!  Some nitwit is currently either shooting off fireworks, or just had their home explode.  It's currently 2:14 in the afternoon.

My guess: they're still drunk from last night

OK, back to what you came for.

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 Suh'um pretty and Victorian-ey in throw pillow form.

Get it here: https://www.zazzle.com/victorian_boot_holding_flowers_throw_pillow-189440555802621288 

Even though we have a ton of pins, we have more than three times that number in throw pillows  Currently my shop has 1914, i.e. one thousand, nine hundred and fourteen throw pillows.

See all of them here: www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?ps=96&qs=pillow

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I've just started making socks.  Or more specifically, beautiful marvelous socks.

Get these here: www.zazzle.com/light_blue_fans_and_curlicues_print_socks-256144557812128604

So far I have only 39 pairs made.  See 'em here:  www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?ps=96&qs=socks

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The perfect wallet for squirreling away your money!!

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/beautiful_squirrel_print_trifold_wallet-256295677545894389

My shop currently has 210 wallets.  See them here: www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?ps=72&qs=wallet 210.

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It's fun 'o clock !!!

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/the_circus_is_coming_to_town_square_wall_clock-256124542011902288 

Currently the shop has 680 clocks.  It's time to see all of them:  www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?ps=96&qs=clock 

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Thus ends today's Lucky Dip.  

More next week.  If I'm not insanely busy.