He began snapping photos with his phone, as two boys tried on X-ray glasses.
If you donned special X-ray glasses that showed the thought bubbles over their heads, you probably would have read a lot of "dears" rhymed with "sinceres" in elaborate longhand.
Anyone who has picked up a comic book, mail-ordered X-Ray Glasses, or ever been nine years old can recall the ads: the cramped type, the Depression-era line art, the promise of "Fooling Your Friends".
The second, "I Get High With a Liitle Help From Vermeer," was a signed $50 print by David MacDowell, described on the site as a satirist who "validates the abused underbelly of society with X-ray glasses".
And there are nontechnical gadgets, the kind at home on a comic book's back page, next to the advertisement for X-ray glasses: sneezing powder, safes that look like soda cans and household cleaners and something called Envelope X-Ray, a spray that purportedly turns paper temporarily translucent and, presumably, wet.
When it comes to online submissions, viewers' names are rather more exotic – Banana Diamond Koala, for instance, has contacted the show about x-ray glasses, as part of today's launch of Project PETRA, a competition whose winners will be trained as spies by actual MI5.
A mini L. B. Jeffries, the beady-eyed little fellow buys novelty X-ray glasses from the back of a comic book; tapes up pictures of his idol Beethoven, like the "Peanuts" character Schroeder without the musical aptitude; and begins breaking into houses as if they were cardboard dioramas, sniffing women's lingerie, slugging their Scotch and generally trying to capture their auras.
It was kind of like getting X-ray glasses.
The Joker has his own combat abilities and weapons, such as a handgun, exploding chattering teeth, and x-ray glasses which allow him to see opponents through walls.
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