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CIPC extra: The best and worst of 2021

Posted on January 4, 2022January 13, 2022

I almost forgot about it, but in exactly one week this blog will celebrate its fifth birthday! Well, it will be its fifth birthday, at…

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CIPC #254: Bohn ad

Posted on December 28, 2021

Our subject for today is one of the stranger ads I have seen. It appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1952 and was apparently…

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CIPC #253: The lone wolf spy hunt

Posted on December 21, 2021

During the course of the years, this blog has put the spotlight on a number of forgotten merchandises: The crime doctor, the Philo Vance series,…

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CIPC #252: Chess in literature, the sequel

Posted on December 14, 2021January 3, 2022

Long, long time ago — the world was still innocent then1 — I wrote a blog post about chess in literature. In it, I discussed…

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CIPC #251: Vogue cover

Posted on December 7, 2021December 7, 2021

Let’s continue our discussions of magazine covers. This time, we go all the way back to 1929. Vogue is already a well-established fashion magazine. Chess…

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CIPC #250: John Bull 16-12-1950

Posted on November 30, 2021

John Bull apparently started his existence — life seems too strong a word for a fictional character — in an eighteenth century pamphlet.1 Since then,…

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CIPC #249: Ogroff

Posted on November 23, 2021January 3, 2022

If you are an avid reader of this blog, you know that I have seen a fair amount of god awful movies. You have seen…

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CIPC #248: 8 out of 10 cats does countdown S20 E2

Posted on November 16, 2021

The origin of 8 out of 10 cats does countdown is a bit convoluted. The show Countdown, in which participants have to solve anagrams and…

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CIPC #247: House of Frankenstein

Posted on November 9, 2021January 3, 2022

By 1944, when House of Frankenstein was released, the Universal horror movies their monsters and their stars already had a reputation. And this movie had…

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CIPC #246: Endeavour S4 E1, Game

Posted on November 3, 2021

Long after Morse there was Endeavour. It deals with Endeavour who was there long before Morse. I realize that that’s a rather opaque introduction for…

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Chess in popular culture

With this blog, I will critique chess as it appears in all sorts of popular media. I will honour the good and, probably much more frequently, castigate the bad.

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