The Spurious Nib

Volume 11

Spurious Nib #20

Little know Spurious Nib fact: Sackbut artists were traditionally recruited for the art of glass works.

Spurious Nib #25

Dr. Mayer Windfeller has discovered an ancient Egyptian hieroglyph describing “an amazing volleyball game where the Tutankhamun Gators outscored the Ishtar Stars from Babylon in the Temple at Karnak. The Gators won 15 to 13.”

Fitch & Crumble

Gormandizing Aids

Featuring the

Newly patented

“Trowloon Dinner Set”

Spurious Nib Erudition

“Cupid’s arrows find both rich and poor yet the poor values its target more.”

Spurious Nib #120

The Slavs were the first ethnicity to develop secret communal handshakes. Scientist discovered pictographs dating to 4670 B.C.E. near Zvolen, Slovakia. The pictographs portray Slavic farmers trading wheat using only their hands! Through a series of hand grasps and finger gesticulations Slavs were able to trade grain to make beer. Dr. Fredric Von Distalmeir was able to successfully cipher the pictographs after comparing polydactylic Teutonic drawings with the illustrations in the Encyclopedia of the Vienna Convention on Traffic Gestures.

Spurious Nib #8

On this date in history Edwin P. Nibblehoffer, proprietor of Dolci Di Fata Sweet Shop, noticed the grey in his sideburns accentuated his magnificent eyebrows. This eventually led to the invention of his famous Nibblehoffer Brow & Burn Cream.