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Bombastic Little Creep

This character’s creator described him as “insufferable”, and called him a “detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep”. On August…

Flash’em Poker

In Texas Hold’em Poker, which hand is known as ‘six tits’?

Glory and Sadness, Beauty and Pain

X is a song written by Y and famously covered by Z. Time Magazine’s Josh Tyrangiel described it thus:…

May be harmful if inhaled or swallowed

In the book “The World of _____” by Bennett Alan Weinberg and Bonnie K Bealer, there is a photograph…

12 March, 2007

A buxom blonde named Belinda

Question by J Ramanand

In 1906 American humorist Gelett Burgess published a book called “Are you a bromide?” It became a success. At a publishing association dinner the next year, as was custom, his publisher handed out copies of the book with a special jacket with “the picture of a damsel.” Burgess himself drew the buxom blonde for the cover and gave it the name “Miss Belinda _____”. What did this add to the publishing world?