The Whoopee Cushion was invented around 1930 by employees of JEM Rubber Company in Toronto. They found it quite funny, but also had troubled getting a novelty company interested in it. After all, as funny as fart sounds are, they are somewhat uncivilized. Johnson Smith & Co. finally took it on, and the Whoopee Cushion became an instant hit. Novelty collectors Stan and Mardi Timm know everything there is to know about Whoopee Cushions and other classic pranks you could once find at the dime store. And they are willing to tell us all about them.
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Somewhere in between the water-squirting bow tie and the prank soap that makes your skin grimier as you wash is the Dribble Glass, a tumbler or cup with a hole in it, designed so the would-be drinker ends up with their beverage all over their chin and shirt.
“Collecting dribble glasses was Stan’s big thing,” Mardi tells me, indicating how even though they’ve shared this passion for novelties as a couple, they’ve each gotten excited about different aspects of the field. “In the last 15 years or so, Stan went nuts with dribble glasses. Every one of them is different. Several of those are made by S.S. Adams. I have pictures that give close-ups of the hole in the glass. You can see some are pretty crude, and then some are almost invisible. With the best ones, you can’t even tell the holes are there. But yeah, Stan has, like, 45 dribble glasses. He loves dribble glasses. I don’t know why.”
The Timms are facing retirement and are looking for a museum to take their dribble glasses, fake poop, magic tricks, and fart bags off their hands. Read what they have to tell us about the golden age of prank toys at Collectors Weekly.
Source: neatorama