WELL SPACED SOUND STRAIGHT TEETH ARE BUILT BY BOTTLED SUNSHINE

March 30, 2007 6:13 PM

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...
posted by Blazecock Pileon (17 comments total)

FYI, Firefox with Adblock does a pretty good job of filtering .. well, all of that. Looks good in Safari, though; neat post.
posted by ZakDaddy at 6:44 PM on March 30, 2007

Aha! I was wondering what I was missing.
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

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

This is really good.
posted by killdevil at 7:20 PM on March 30, 2007

Love it!
posted by amyms at 7:27 PM on March 30, 2007

Wow. Thanks!
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

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

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

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

Shiver my timbers!

/squaredude
posted by gottabefunky at 9:43 PM on March 30, 2007

Shadow of Death or Symbol of Peace
posted by gottabefunky at 9:48 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

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

"Satisfy the inner man"... with beans?
posted by Termite at 6:28 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