The Spurious Nib

The Spurious Nib is a faux collection of quirky facts and news from the past.

The Spurious Nib has been ruminating on alternative facts, a smattering of Bob & Ray, Dick Orkin, Mark Twain, Patrick McManus, Red Green, and many old radio shows, to name a few. There have been plenty of delicious parody type influences like The Door magazine or the babylonbee.com & /lileks.com/bleats. There are mythical towns like Joe Soucheray’s Garage Logic, the infamous Lake Woebegone and now a electronic roving wagon of odd news making characters. And mix in my wife and six amazing children who like to needle me, “old guys make things up.”

Most recently I have digested some of Eric Metaxas Fun Facts Friday and twitter http://ericmetaxas.com/books/dont-you-believe-it-actual-parody/ references; include a brush with almost twitter fame when Metaxas liked a “Little known false fact: In 1873 Santa's younger brother Kevin delivered toys to Iowa.”

Add a dash of old ephemera to the bloviated concoction to the afore mentioned ingredients and get set for the Spurious Nibs dyspepsia.

And last but not least credit for all the illustrations are from:

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/titles/

http://karenswhimsy.com

http://virginiachronicle.com

https://archive.org  e. g.  https://archive.org/stream/britannicabook Britannica Book Of The Year 1944 and so many more.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org

https://freevintageillustrations.com/

http://www.gutenberg.org

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~poindexterfamily/OldNames.html

Unless otherwise noted.

Disclaimer—I have no association with https://thenib.com/.

Hopefully the momentary atmosphere the Spurious Nib creates will bring a bit of a smile (whether rye or wheat).