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Ask the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear | Elizabeth P. Archibald
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Want to know how to garden with lobsters? How to sober up? Grow a beard? Or simply how to make a perfect omelet? Look no further. Rather, look backward. Based on the popular blog, Ask the Past is full of the wisdom of the ages--as well as the fad diets, zany pickup lines, and bacon Band-Aids of the ages. Drawn from centuries of antique texts by historian and bibliophile Elizabeth P. Archibald, Ask the Past offers a delightful array of advice both wise and weird. Whether it's eighteenth-century bedbug advice (sprinkle bed with gunpowder and let smolder), budget fashion tips of the Middle Ages (save on the clothes, splurge on the purse) or a sixteenth-century primer on seduction (hint: do no pass gas), Ask the Past is a wildly entertaining guide to life from the people who lived it first.
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BookishMarginalia
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Today we welcome back our students for orientation, so this advice seems particularly (and peculiarly) appropriate! 😜

WanderingBookaneer 😔 And I was planning to drench mine with urine. 8y
Laalaleighh @JaimitaPR 😂😂😂😂 8y
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Makes me wonder how much of a problem this was ?? "Between two evils choose the lesser, son"

coffeenebula "Shameful sparks" ? 8y
becausetrains If thou hast duchess problems, be not troubled, dear son, for I have nine and ninety problems, of which a lady caused none. 8y
Laalaleighh @becausetrains 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👌🏼 8y
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Yournewfriendsams @becausetrains 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 8y
readinginthedark @becausetrains 😂 Best ever! 8y
kdwinchester 😹😹😹😹 8y
wrenaymuhree Those damn seductive women....😂 8y
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What "lady" wouldn't want these "compliments"?

subwayreads Mmmhmm I love my marble legs 8y
BarbaraJean What woman *wouldn't* love for youthful poets to acquaint the world with songs of her thighs?? 😂 8y
Eyelit Breasts soft and tender like the Pelicans? 😂 8y
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BookBabe 😂😂😂 8y
Well-ReadNeck Why, oh why, is there no pelican emoji?! 8y
ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled Id be all: "My legs are like pillars?!" ? 8y
Gezemice 😂😂😂 8y
Laalaleighh 😂😂😂😂😂 8y
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Seriously entertaining. And gross.

BookishMarginalia Boxed water! 8y
gibblr It's better, you know 😜 8y
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I find the snide comments at the bottom of every entry amusing, but in this case I think it's obvious that if the method would prevent sex, it would therefore prevent pregnancy!

Sue Crap, don't let the Republicans get hold of that Intel!! 8y
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Protect your baby against scorpions or serpents or cats, oh my!

Arcana Wow! Being scared of the dark makes sense now. I don't see clowns mentioned, though! 8y
RealLifeReading Crept into Childrens mouths!! 8y
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How cool is this? So quirky and weird!

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