Unusual types of gramophone records Sievey. Chocolate records about three inches in diameter, and small players made for them, were marketed as a novelty in Europe in 1903–1904. After a record wore out or ceased to amuse, it could be eaten. In 1973, the Kingdom of Bhutan issued several unusual postage stamps that are playable miniature phonograph records. These thin plastic single-sided adhesive-backed 33 RPM discs feature folk music and tourism information. Not very practical for actual postal use and rarely seen canceled, they were designed as revenue-generating novelties and were initially scorned as such by most stamp collectors. Their small diameters (approximately 7 and
The Yale Record has been used as a synonym for sausage since at least 1884... Bladderball was a game traditionally played by students at Yale, between 1954 and 1982, after which it was banned by the administration. It was created by Philip Zeidman as a competition between "The Yale Record", the "Yale Daily News", "The Yale Banner" and campus radio station WYBC. It was eventually opened to all students, with teams divided by residential college. Notable "Yale Record" alumni include (but are not limited to): Guest contributors to "The Record" have included: The Yale Record The Yale Record is the campus humor magazine