Here's a selection of some of funny vintage photos we’ve ever seen...
1. Ladies! Looking for a way to conceal your emotions when playing cards?
Can we suggest this natty linen invention from 1932, designed to hide your glee (or fear) while indulging in a round of Gin Rummy. Spiffing!
2. A bicycle made for choo (choo)
Dick Pashley showcases his latest invention, the 'quadcycle' - a four-wheeled cycle that could be used to transport passengers on rail lines that were shelved under the Beeching 'axe'.
3. Easy rider
And while we're on the subject of transport inventions, here's an offering from 1932. The Dynasphere was a giant electrically-driven wheel, capable of speeds of 30mph. Invented by Mr J. A. Purves of Taunton and his son, the vehicle apparently had the unfortunate effect of 'gerbilling' its driver - the tendency when accelerating or braking for the housing holding the seated driver to spin within the wheel!
4. More Downton Abbey than downtown Tokyo
Ladies stop for a roadside picnic on the outskirts of Tokyo in 1932.
5. Reach for the stars
Metro Goldwyn Mayer physical director Dr J M Anderson puts actresses Gwen Lee, Ruth Kelly, Blanche Le Clair, Raquel Torres and Fay Webb through a daily exercise routine. While we're on the subject of exercising actress...
6. Knees up Mother Brown
Here's a young Joan Crawford practising her high kicks.
7. Hot dogs
Greyhounds wearing goggles receiving sun-lamp treatment.
8. Oh I Say!
British tennis players Mrs Fearnley-Whittingstall, Fred Perry and Betty Nuthall leaving Paddington Station, London, on their way to the West Indies.
9. Bowling a baby bouncer
June 1936: A cricketer going out to bat while pushing a baby in a pram at the start of the match between Licensed Victuallers and Tradespeople at a cricket ground in Dartford.
10. Doggy training
May 1966: Mishka, a boxer and a guard dog on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch railway line in Kent, braves the cold in a sweater and cap whilst carrying out his duty.
11. Bobbing bobbies
June 1937: Three Port of London Authority policemen enjoy testing life jackets on a hot summer's day in the West India Dock.
12. Bangers and smash
November 1935: Some of the kitchen ladies of Hayling Island playing their kitchen utensils as percussion.
13. Go faster pinstripes
October 1934: Two young Etonians test their driving skills in a one horse-power Rytecraft Scoota-car, designed by Mr J W Shillan and fully licensed and taxed for the road.
14. A horse walks into a bar...
October 1937: Mr Jack Fowler, a coal merchant in Bedford regularly brings his horse Sam into the public bar of the Balloon Inn for a beer and a game of dominoes with the lads.
15. Hirsutes you, Sir!
December 1946: Dressed as Victorian gentlemen complete with top hats and beards, fifteen students from Caius College, Cambridge and fifteen from Oxford play 'Foot-the-Ball' on Parker's Piece, Cambridge.
16. Life's a beach
May 1936: Photographer George W. Hales asleep in a deckchair, and unaware of the incoming tide at Barry Island, near Cardiff in Wales.
17. Out for a duck
September 1933: An agriculture student sits in a wheelbarrow with five white Indian runner ducks on Mrs Harrison Bell's poultry farm, near Welwyn, Hertfordshire.
18. Another fine miso
Circa 1937: A Chinese comic double act impersonating American comic duo, Laurel and Hardy.
(H/T The Telegraph)
1. Ladies! Looking for a way to conceal your emotions when playing cards?
Can we suggest this natty linen invention from 1932, designed to hide your glee (or fear) while indulging in a round of Gin Rummy. Spiffing!
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| Getty Images |
2. A bicycle made for choo (choo)
Dick Pashley showcases his latest invention, the 'quadcycle' - a four-wheeled cycle that could be used to transport passengers on rail lines that were shelved under the Beeching 'axe'.
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| Rex Features |
3. Easy rider
And while we're on the subject of transport inventions, here's an offering from 1932. The Dynasphere was a giant electrically-driven wheel, capable of speeds of 30mph. Invented by Mr J. A. Purves of Taunton and his son, the vehicle apparently had the unfortunate effect of 'gerbilling' its driver - the tendency when accelerating or braking for the housing holding the seated driver to spin within the wheel!
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| Getty Images |
4. More Downton Abbey than downtown Tokyo
Ladies stop for a roadside picnic on the outskirts of Tokyo in 1932.
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| Getty Images |
5. Reach for the stars
Metro Goldwyn Mayer physical director Dr J M Anderson puts actresses Gwen Lee, Ruth Kelly, Blanche Le Clair, Raquel Torres and Fay Webb through a daily exercise routine. While we're on the subject of exercising actress...
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| Getty Images |
6. Knees up Mother Brown
Here's a young Joan Crawford practising her high kicks.
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| Getty Images |
7. Hot dogs
Greyhounds wearing goggles receiving sun-lamp treatment.
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| Getty Images |
8. Oh I Say!
British tennis players Mrs Fearnley-Whittingstall, Fred Perry and Betty Nuthall leaving Paddington Station, London, on their way to the West Indies.
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| Getty Images |
9. Bowling a baby bouncer
June 1936: A cricketer going out to bat while pushing a baby in a pram at the start of the match between Licensed Victuallers and Tradespeople at a cricket ground in Dartford.
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| E. Dean/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images |
10. Doggy training
May 1966: Mishka, a boxer and a guard dog on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch railway line in Kent, braves the cold in a sweater and cap whilst carrying out his duty.
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| Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images |
11. Bobbing bobbies
June 1937: Three Port of London Authority policemen enjoy testing life jackets on a hot summer's day in the West India Dock.
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| Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images |
12. Bangers and smash
November 1935: Some of the kitchen ladies of Hayling Island playing their kitchen utensils as percussion.
 |
| Fox Photos/Getty Images |
13. Go faster pinstripes
October 1934: Two young Etonians test their driving skills in a one horse-power Rytecraft Scoota-car, designed by Mr J W Shillan and fully licensed and taxed for the road.
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| Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images |
14. A horse walks into a bar...
October 1937: Mr Jack Fowler, a coal merchant in Bedford regularly brings his horse Sam into the public bar of the Balloon Inn for a beer and a game of dominoes with the lads.
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| L. C. Buckley/Fox Photos/Getty Images |
15. Hirsutes you, Sir!
December 1946: Dressed as Victorian gentlemen complete with top hats and beards, fifteen students from Caius College, Cambridge and fifteen from Oxford play 'Foot-the-Ball' on Parker's Piece, Cambridge.
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| Fox Photos/Getty Images |
16. Life's a beach
May 1936: Photographer George W. Hales asleep in a deckchair, and unaware of the incoming tide at Barry Island, near Cardiff in Wales.
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| Richards/Fox Photos/Getty Images |
17. Out for a duck
September 1933: An agriculture student sits in a wheelbarrow with five white Indian runner ducks on Mrs Harrison Bell's poultry farm, near Welwyn, Hertfordshire.
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| Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images |
18. Another fine miso
Circa 1937: A Chinese comic double act impersonating American comic duo, Laurel and Hardy.
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| General Photographic Agency/Getty Images |
(H/T The Telegraph)
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