EINY Quote of the day:

“There seems to be a misapprehension that you can’t drink water from a closed bottle with a cap on it. You can.”

Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman Peter S. Kalikow on new NYC subway rules.

As many as one in every 100 people in the UK is an illegal immigrant, according to a new government estimate.

Times Online. Rubbish!

Vote Juanzo! An enterprising blogger and reader of the Kent and Sussex Courier has cunningly photoshopped a baby to produce Juanzo—a delightful little boy with a rare disease known as Wolf’s Syndrome.

Juanzo is now a contestant in the Kent and Sussex Courier’s Baby of the Year competition which runs until July 15 (see below). If you would like to help Juanzo win, you can order a copy of the newspaper with the voting form attached here. First prize is a bronze cast of the baby’s foot. (Via McG.)

Research work over the past couple of days has taken me through back copies of some of America’s most renowned magazines. On my travels I came across some adverts that I thought were too good to keep to myself. Top of the list is this advert for Good Housekeeping magazine from the mid 1980s.

Now, is it me, or do women 18 to 34 look a hell of a lot happier than women 18 to 44? (I think the less that’s said about women 18 to 54 the better.) Do women with children under 18 seem a lot happier than working women? And are educated women the only ones to wear glasses?

It seems that in 1984 Metro-Suburban women were attractive in a Princess Di kind of way. High-income women would eat you alive. And women who owned residences $80,000 plus (a little-known social group) were fond of tying sweaters around their neck and then running onto a tennis court.

In fact, I think it’s safe to say that in 1984 if you were a woman aged 18 to 34, who owned your own home (preferably worth over $80,00) and were married. You were happy.

If you were aged 18 to 44, Metro-Suburban, had children under 18, and were educated, you were middling.

And god help you if you were 18 to 54 and worked.

And what about the other adverts you cry! Well how’s this for a portable computer?

And the less that’s said about this cell phone the better! Ooh 55 mins talk time! (Come to think of it, it doesn’t look much better than most phones you get in the US today.)

A quick-thinking UK photographer called Mr Jaded overheard this couple on a bus in London, so he took a couple of surreptitious photos and then added speech bubbles. What a clever idea. Via Wired. (Thanks to Macboy.)