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Follies of the Mad Men #59
What exactly was the name of that toy again?
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 20, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Toys, 1970s
Follies of the Mad Men #58
Message: your delicious new Skoda will fall apart in the first rainstorm.Skoda Car Commercial - The Cake - A funny movie is a click away
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 17, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Cars
Follies of the Mad Men #57
This hideous creature is giving me the whim-whams. It's a total juju fetiche. I cannot imagine how any ad man thought this frightful apparition would sell towels. You just know that it's going to scoop out some housewife's eyes with the spoon and scramble her brains with the whisk, all while beating the courageous but small family dog with those wooden legs.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 10, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, 1960s
Strange Congo Signage
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 04, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Money, Signage, Billboards, Foreign Customs, Africa
Follies of the Mad Men #56
A special "two-fer" installment of the Follies thread. Two splendid representations of our friends, the Native Americans, from within the lifetimes of many WU readers.
They hate cheap cigars, but are experts in premium house paints.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 16, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1940s, Native Americans
Follies of the Mad Men #55
Of course, every beautiful young woman I know always asks for prune juice in a cocktail glass whenever she's out in public.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 09, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Excrement, 1960s
Follies of the Mad Men #54
Alex raised the topic of navels earlier, little knowing I had something of a similar nature in store!This is of course a famous and admittedly effective commercial. But we'll include it in our series of oddities for one trivial reason: no navels shown! In a commercial focusing on several bare stomachs!
It was all part of television broadcast standards back then, just as with the famous I Dream of Jennie prohibition against showing Barbara Eden's navel.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 05, 2009 -
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Category: Body, Business, Advertising, Products, Food, 1960s
Planar Touchscreens
Nothing weird about the product, but what's the deal with that guy in the picture?
Posted By: Alex - Mon Feb 02, 2009 -
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Category: Advertising
Follies of the Mad Men #53
Animal abuse: not a guaranteed winning strategy for your advertisement.Also: isn't BMW supposed to be a classy car, not the goofball's favorite?
Hamster Crash Commercial - MyVideo
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 22, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Europe, Cars
Dr. Seth Arnold’s Great Infantile Regulator
(Looking online, I discover that the entire book has been digitized here, so that you can have your own virtual copy.)
The front and back sections of the volume are full of ads. Here are two for some nostrums that I am sure contained plenty of dope.
No wonder the citizens in the drawings all look so relaxed and peaceful!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 20, 2009 -
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Category: Medicine, Regionalism, Advertising, Products, Babies and Toddlers, Nineteenth Century
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