Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls (Unless Your Last Name Is Wallenda)

Please stick to the figurative bodies of water that you are used to!

This is Doktor Zoom’s cat Thornton! He is having a week!

Happy Weekend!

Today is the 12th anniversary of Nik Wallenda (of The Flying Wallendas!) becoming the first person to walk a tightrope across Niagara Falls, which honestly seems like a very poor idea to me. Also, tomorrow, in addition to being Father’s Day, is also Waterfall Day — which I do not recommend you celebrate by walking a tightrope across one, because that actually seems like a very bad idea for non-Flying Wallendas.

Your present this week is unrelated to that, because frankly I couldn’t find anything cool related to any holiday or anniversary of today!

It is a video of all of the kinky shit they had — including ideas for sex robots and Salvador Dalí's "Dream of Venus" house — at the 1938 World Fair. It’s a pretty useful thing to have in a world where people seem to like to pretend as though recreational sex was discovered in the late 1960s.

Courtesy of r/ObscureMedia. Enjoy!

Edit/Update: Dok Zoom popping in to say oh heck, I shoulda hopped in when this post went up earlier, but I was writing a thing about Donald Trump and UFOs. (How's that for a teaser? it’ll be your open thread at 3 EDT).

Thornton is doing fine, very sleepy because of the pain meds, and has so far not chewed the bandage off his hind foot this time! A spritz of bitter apple on the bandage seems to help; in the pic up top, it looked to me like he fell asleep reaching for his bandaged foot, which he can lick/chew if he stretches that leg out past the edge of the Cone of Shame.

See Wednesday's tabs for why the dear little booger has a bandage and Cone of Shame, and why “this time.” I love him so much.

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