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Welcome to the first post at The Gaffe Showroom, the home of gaffes, howlers, blunders, bloopers, mistakes and unusual advertisements. Basically, anything unintentionally humorous.

I tend to find most of my material from old newspapers and magazines. And when I say old, the examples at the end of this post were published nearly a century apart.

What I find particularly satisfying is unearthing something unintentionally funny from, say, a hundred years ago and still finding it funny today. Unintentional humour does not date.

There is something that I have been wondering and I hope that you can help. What do you call someone who searches for gaffes, howlers, blunders, bloopers and mistakes? I've found that a comiconomenclaturist is someone who collects humorous names. What would I be called (apart from sad)?

And to finish, here is an old school howler and an even older odd advertisement.

First, the howler from 1940:

In the old days married women put woad on their bodies to keep out the damp and frighten off animals. Nowadays they use cosmetics.

And the odd advertisement from 1844:

Two sisters want washing.