Wednesday, October 31, 2018

The Spurious Nib Halloween Edition

Spurious Nib Halloween Items

Spice up this evenings Halloween conversations with these here to fore never seen spurious items.


On Halloween 1911 Dr. Ransom D. Monet, dressed as “The Oil Philosopher” and lectured his students on the proper viscosity of oil for the Priestman Oil Engine.

Lizzie Andrew Borden did not know how to properly sharpen an axe.

Every Halloween Istvan Graeff forced his wife and six children to listen to his worst nightmares from that year whilst they stood at his bedside. Later in life his son, Urice recounted with horror one particular soliloquy which lasted two hours about their beloved pet squirrel named Ziegenfuss, “whose eyes glowed like red hot coals as he devoured ”

On every Halloween between 1897 and 1904 Ernestine the Praying Mantis used to terrorize young children in the Hungarian village of Zólyom.