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Comments on MetaFilter post The Horrors of WarTue, 03 Jul 2012 12:29:39 -0800Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:29:39 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60The Horrors of War
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<em><a href="http://www.dekescollection.net/how.html">These cards</a>, produced in 1938 by Philadelphia-based Gum, Inc. (later Bowman), produced a political furor unlike any other. The idea for these cards was introduced by George Moll, a Sunday-school teacher and Gum, Inc.'s advertising counsel. Warren Bowman, owner of Gum, Inc., claimed that he wanted to "teach peace by exposing the horrors of war."</em> [link is to an archive of trading cards featuring cartoonish racism/violence/godknowswhat] <br /><br />via <a href="http://www.avclub.com/articles/ed-asner-on-crotchety-roles-from-lou-grant-to-up,82038/">Ed Asner</a>.post:www.metafilter.com,2012:site.117529Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:21:26 -0800Think_Longpropagandaww2bubblegumtradingcardscollectibleBy: inturnaround
http://www.metafilter.com/117529/The-Horrors-of-War#4431555
I think this might the very first "via Ed Asner" ever posted here (or perhaps anywhere).comment:www.metafilter.com,2012:site.117529-4431555Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:29:39 -0800inturnaroundBy: mazola
http://www.metafilter.com/117529/The-Horrors-of-War#4431565
Anyone got a 'firebombing', rookie year? I've got 'trebuchet' in its final season.
<small>And: "via Ed Asner" (!) How cool is that?!</small>comment:www.metafilter.com,2012:site.117529-4431565Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:32:44 -0800mazolaBy: Think_Long
http://www.metafilter.com/117529/The-Horrors-of-War#4431576
Yeah, Ed and me go waaaaay back.comment:www.metafilter.com,2012:site.117529-4431576Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:37:18 -0800Think_LongBy: audi alteram partem
http://www.metafilter.com/117529/The-Horrors-of-War#4431579
Fascinating. On the back of the cards is the slogan "to know the horrors of war is to want peace." Googling that brought me to <a href="http://www.psacard.com/articles/article_view.chtml?artid=6534&type=1">this interview</a> with a man who, according to "the PSA Registry Hall of Fame, [has] finest set of The Horrors of War cards ever assembled."comment:www.metafilter.com,2012:site.117529-4431579Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:38:02 -0800audi alteram partemBy: The Whelk
http://www.metafilter.com/117529/The-Horrors-of-War#4431584
"The human louse somewhat resembles a tiny lobster, and he lives chiefly in your trousers. Short of burning all your clothes there is no known way of getting rid of him. Down the seams of your trousers he lays his glittering white eggs, like tiny grains of rice, which hatch out and breed families of thier own at horrible speed. I think pacifists might find it helpful to illustrate thier pamphlets with enlarged photographs of lice. Glory of war indeed! In war all solderies are lousy, at the least when it is warm enough. The men that fought at Verdun, at Waterloo, at Flodden, at Senlac, at Thermopylae - every one of them had lice crawling over his testicles."
― George Orwell, Homage to Cataloniacomment:www.metafilter.com,2012:site.117529-4431584Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:38:54 -0800The WhelkBy: marxchivist
http://www.metafilter.com/117529/The-Horrors-of-War#4431634
Nice post, my Dad had a set of these when he was like 10 years old and vividly remembered them 70 years later. This is as good a place as any to link to the Topps gruesome 1962 <a href="http://www.bobheffner.com/cwn/a_indexfront.shtml">Civil War Trading Card set</a>.comment:www.metafilter.com,2012:site.117529-4431634Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:02:46 -0800marxchivistBy: Think_Long
http://www.metafilter.com/117529/The-Horrors-of-War#4431644
<em>This is as good a place as any to link to the Topps gruesome 1962 Civil War Trading Card set.</em>
They didn't fuck around with trading cards back in the day, did they?comment:www.metafilter.com,2012:site.117529-4431644Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:07:22 -0800Think_LongBy: Rash
http://www.metafilter.com/117529/The-Horrors-of-War#4431727
And let's not forget the best series of cards, also from 1962:
<a href="http://www.retrocrush.com/archive/marsattacks/default.htm">#36, Destroying A Dog</a>comment:www.metafilter.com,2012:site.117529-4431727Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:57:37 -0800RashBy: Katjusa Roquette
http://www.metafilter.com/117529/The-Horrors-of-War#4432099
Never heard of these!comment:www.metafilter.com,2012:site.117529-4432099Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:58:50 -0800Katjusa Roquette
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