Guardiana
Guardiana - the Safety Woman teaches us about the three A's of safety: Aware, Alert, Alive.
Safety Woman: In Danger Out of Doors
and Safety Woman: Harm Hides at Home
Found in Internet Archive.
Mannen till höger
Ok this is for Swedes: Vem är mannen till höger? Ser han inte bekant ut?
Uppdatering:
Ok, jag sa aldrig att han VAR någon vi kände till. Jag sa däremot att jag tyckte han påminde om någon. Det tyckte tydligen ni också. Mittenfiguren består av Bert-Åke Warg, Carl Bildt, Thomas Bolme, Peter Wahlbeck, Mannen från Bedazzled!-bloggen. Förlåt Mr J - Jag glömde ta med Di Leva. Till höger ser ni nu den jag tänkte på - Joachim Posener - och ni får bedöma själva om det ligger något i mina associationer; jag misstänker dock att ni kastar virtuella tomater på mig. Tack får att ni deltog i mitt lilla associationsexperiment!
In short, in English: We've been having a little game of associations. I asked who the man to the right in the photo on the top of this post resembled. I received quite a lot of suggestions and I put them all together and you can see who I was thinking of to the right. (A Swedish swindler and fugitive from law).
Bilden är från Bello Púbico
The Green Parachutist
This picture, that I found via Bello Púbico, took me back to my childhood in the mid 70's and I just had to blog it. Does anyone else get a just a little bit notalgic from this?
Caped Crusaders
I'm not sure what this blog in spanish is all about but there sure are a lot of people in costumes; people who wants to be superheroes, I guess. They look stupid.
FRUNOBULAND, el blog de Frunobulax y sus cazurros enmascarados (obsolete)
also FrunoFlickr
Probably via A Best Truth, Bello Púbico or Otomano
Vintage Ads
A great set of american 40's wartime ads. Movie ads, car ads and much more.
Check it out: Flickr: Photos from [c21de] RetroGrafix
Via NIBLOG
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100 Most Often Misspelled Words
If you are one of those few who has visited Martin Klasch for some time you might have noticed that we, since a few weeks, have gone from "talking" mostly Swedish to using English as our main language. " Why?" you might ask. Well, the reasons are many, but in the end it boils down to: why be more exclusive than necessary? 
Swedes are used to reading english which of course doesn't work the other way around. But this transition will not only have positive consequences. Some of the negative you'll encounter envolves having to put up with some strange ways of expressing things, stylistic faux pas and misspelled words. Misspelling English is, however, not only a matter for people who doesn't have english as their first language; heres a little something about that:
yourDictionary.com • 100 Most Often Misspelled Words
By the way; I'm not a masochist but I would be glad if you'd point out my mistakes. How do I learn otherwise. Thanks.
Update: Thanks to Maximilian who already has corrected me!
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Toon Diet
A toon diet? Yes, I guess you could say Swedish kids were on a toon diet when I grew up; it was like Christmas when there were cartoons from Disney, Hanna Barbera or Warner Bros on the telly (Swedes will appreciate there was a joke in there). Mr Feckenbrenner reminded me that we had to make do with stuff like the British toon Roobarb.
Watch him move in this short example (mov / wmv).
Some more 60's poster art
Hey man! Like those groovy, freaky, far-out psychedelic 60's posters? I would sure like 'em bigger but you can't have it all. Turn on, tune in and click: pOoTer's pSycheDelic shAcK - Art
Via Stationsvakt
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"Fru Gårman"
"Herr Gårman"("Mr Gårman") - is a play with the words "Här går man"("Here One Walks") - and also the popular swedish name for the sign for pedestrian crossing. (left)
The green party - Miljöpartiet - has, in the name of equality, proposed a female complement to the male symbol. I was surprised to know that the original designer, and the designer of most swedish road signs (Pdf) - Karl-Gustaf Gustafsson - already designed a female version back in 1979. (right)
(Source: Aftonbladet)
My favourite road sign, by the way (off the road)
Create your own Swedish road sign.
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A Swedish Tiger
"En Svensk tiger" - "A Swedish Tiger" is an ambiguous phrase also meaning "A Swede Keeps Silent". It was a slogan created during WW2; reminding Swedes, especially those in the Armed Forces, not to speak of more or less sensitive matters which could possibly harm the nation. The enemy was out there with big ears.
The symbol - the tiger in Swedish blue and yellow - was created in 1941 by Bertil Almqvist. It has for some time now been used by Beredskapsmuséet - the Museum For Military Preparedness but Militära Underrättlse- och Säkerhetstjänsten (MUST) - the Military Intelligence and Security Service urges the museum to stop using it claiming that the Swedish Military Defence has the copyrights to it. The museum is threatened by a fine of 500.000 Skr (about 65.000 USD) but maintaining that the rights should belong to Almqvist's daughters. To be continued. (Source: among others DN)
I hope they don't fine me for this!
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...On The Prairie
Ok, let me just apologize right away. This is a really immature little video clip and it's NSFW, but I just had to...
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Musselsoppans Vänner has been updated
Martin Klasch's picture blog Musselsoppans Vänner has been updated with some scanned pocket book covers from The Martin Klasch Library.
It's the Wacky Races!
I remember that I, as a kid, liked the Wacky Races. But we didn't get much of those cartoons on the telly so for me Wacky Races is more a comic book. No matter in what media - it's wacky alright!
It's the Wacky Races!
Nostalgia central
Toonpedia
IMDb
It's the Wacky Races!
Nostalgia central
Toonpedia
IMDb
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Ptikobj
Ptikobj is a genuinely strange flash film; however not as scary as Salad Fingers by the same creator.
Via Totally Flabbergasted
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Here Comes Bod...
Like a flash from the past - here comes Bod...
Watch a Bod episode and lots of screenshots here. And the Bod tune.
Thanks to Stationsvakt
Bod och tant Frida - a Swedish homage to Bod containing Bod stories with a twist.
Ingmar Bergman Face to Face
The new official Bergman site - Ingmar Bergman Face to Face - is here. So far it's only in Swedish but a English version will be launched in January. Browse away anyway if your interested. It looks good.
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