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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Did A Department Store Really Keep A Guy On Staff To Be “Fired” In Front Of Angry Customers?
Description: For this Labor Day holiday we thought we should pay tribute to what may have been the strangest ways to make a living in its time: the so-called "department store scapegoat" who was kept on staff to be "fired" from time to time. Plus: today in 1903, Scott Perky applied for a patent for a bidirectional typeface.
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Scott Perky’s Bi-Directional Text (Weird Universe)
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