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Boilproof nipples — Girly pirates? — Hubris — Atomic nose candy — Pit paranoia — The gay mafia's beverage of choice — Mouthwash for flaky skin — Spam spam spam spam — Dead-fish eyes — and more American advertising from 1932 to 1959...
Aha! I was wondering what I was missing.
posted by routergirl at 6:51 PM on March 30, 2007
posted by routergirl at 6:51 PM on March 30, 2007
Table five prefers Bovex.
posted by George_Spiggott at 7:14 PM on March 30, 2007
posted by George_Spiggott at 7:14 PM on March 30, 2007
For adblock plus users, just add the following exception to the filter:
@@http://www.tjs-labs.com/advertising/pictures/*.jpg
And, awesome post!
posted by chimaera at 7:19 PM on March 30, 2007
@@http://www.tjs-labs.com/advertising/pictures/*.jpg
And, awesome post!
posted by chimaera at 7:19 PM on March 30, 2007
Wow. Thanks!
posted by nj_subgenius at 7:28 PM on March 30, 2007
posted by nj_subgenius at 7:28 PM on March 30, 2007
Great find, BP. Thanks!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:38 PM on March 30, 2007
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:38 PM on March 30, 2007
Risky to come to work with those dead fish eyes
You're not kidding. And you should have seen the fit my boss pitched when he saw those dead human eyes on my desk.
posted by Pastabagel at 8:02 PM on March 30, 2007
You're not kidding. And you should have seen the fit my boss pitched when he saw those dead human eyes on my desk.
posted by Pastabagel at 8:02 PM on March 30, 2007
Poor Spam. The only other product that even came close was Ayds diet candy....
posted by Tube at 8:36 PM on March 30, 2007
posted by Tube at 8:36 PM on March 30, 2007
Golden Circle, an Australian food company, markets its sarsaparilla under the name of — you guessed it — SARS! (According to this report from '03, the outbreak of the virus of the same name might have actually boosted sales.)
posted by rob511 at 9:41 PM on March 30, 2007
posted by rob511 at 9:41 PM on March 30, 2007
gottabefunky, I love that. Well, I guess both things about it: that there were airplane haters around whom this is presumably replying to and that a simple trumpeting of assertions in favor of planes would be swallowed easily by the target populace. Although come to think of it, today's genetically-modified-crops debates aren't much different.
posted by Firas at 1:43 AM on March 31, 2007
posted by Firas at 1:43 AM on March 31, 2007
A few years back, there was a local (ie somewhere in the mid-Atlantic states, anyway) a small soda bottling company that sold its products under the name "Golden Stream" ...
"Yeah, buddy, I got your Golden Stream ... RIGHT HERE!!!!"
posted by kcds at 4:40 AM on March 31, 2007
"Yeah, buddy, I got your Golden Stream ... RIGHT HERE!!!!"
posted by kcds at 4:40 AM on March 31, 2007
Best post (for me) in months.
Thanks for sharing this.
posted by squidfartz at 9:50 AM on March 31, 2007
Thanks for sharing this.
posted by squidfartz at 9:50 AM on March 31, 2007
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