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It doesn't seem that anyone ever volunteered. Or maybe the company scrapped the idea when the Outdoor Advertising Association noted that they'd first need to obtain permission from local authorities.
More info: Guardian
Posted By: Alex - Sat Oct 21, 2017 -
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Category: Advertising
Follies of the Madmen #331
Puppet experts are always to be trusted.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 20, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Hair Styling, 1950s, Fictional Monsters
Follies of the Madmen #330
This wife has a problem bigger than an inconsiderate husband--he's a clinical alcoholic!
From THE ELKS MAGAZINE for November 1950.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 17, 2017 -
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Category: Addictions, Alcohol, Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Appliances, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #329
Tony the Tiger is a protective deity against the occult forces of Friday the Thirteenth?
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 13, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Products, Food, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #328
As you can see, this ad appeared in the April issue of EBONY magazine, thus rendering any possible connection to Halloween, the time of ghosts, utterly irrelevant. What is the excuse for the pun, then? Because Herb-Ox represents the ghost of a cow? It's utterly arbitrary and unseductive and not germane to the product. Yet some ad guy obviously thought it was genius.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 11, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Superstition, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #327
Dogs appreciate fresh breath.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 02, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, Dogs, 1930s
Eight Minutes of 1979 Commercials
Talking dogs, dancing housewives, magical cleansers--plainly, we were all insane.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 30, 2017 -
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Category: Advertising, Products, 1970s
Easy Does It: Canned Goods Rule
The bad-acid-trip Good Fairy of Canned Vegetables talks about marketplace disruptions and paradigm shifts, and serves as Cupid. Be sure to enjoy the suicidal tomatoes plunging to their canned goods deaths.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 23, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Products, Retailing, Food, Cartoons, 1940s
Follies of the Madmen #326
1) Sturgeons are the ONLY ones to make caviar, therefore they are best by default, and the point is moot.
2) The mental juxtaposition engendered by this ad between a fishy taste and the taste of coffee is most unpleasant.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 20, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Products, Food, 1940s
Malvaz Malt Tonic
Oh, it's not beer, despite coming from Monarch Brewing--it's just a healthy Malt Tonic!As this site says of a similar brand from the same period: "the concoction—actually just simple beer with the addition of honey—was advertised as a 'liquid food' for the treatment of various ailments, from insomnia to 'old age' to 'expectant motherhood.'"
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 18, 2017 -
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Category: Advertising, 1930s, Alcohol
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