The Full Quid Blog

Comstockery Mockery

ITALIAN NUDES BANNED 50 PRINTS SEIZED DECLARING that their subject matter is prurient, the Customs Department has seized 50 prints of a painting by the...

Checking Nefertiti

A little clip re checking out a friend’s yacht while they’re away.

Scrabble babble & oodles of Doodles

Scrabble Is Latest Game Craze New York.  Right here in the middle of the television age, a parlor-game craze is sweeping America. All the wise...

Happy and Panda

Harry Montague Hammond (7 May 1916 – 1 April 1998), professionally known as Happy Hammond, was an Australian comedian, radio host and children’s television show host, and television producer....

A Pox on the Boks

Springbok Rugby Protest – 3 July 1971 I went to a lot of protests and marches as a teenager in Melbourne but none was so...

Telling Spelling

During my extended online trawls through old Australian newspapers, it became very noticeable that through the 19th century and up until about WW1, all of...

Of corset isn’t

Stays and Springs: THE CORSET IS LOSING ITS HOLD. WHAT PHYSICIANS SAY OF THE ABOLITION OF WAIST SQUEEZERS. Pull, Mary pull. It is not half...

Down on Sundowners

I was a quite surprised, when scanning our old newspapers, at the repeatedly negative portrayal of our “sundowners” or “swaggies” as I’d call them. Lazy,...