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Follies of the Madmen #194
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 01, 2012 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Technology, 1970s, Hair and Hairstyling
Fake Facial Hair for Sale
[From Playboy for November 1968. Click to enlarge.]
I can imagine a man being follicle-challenged and able only to grow a patchy beard or mustache. But most of us can grow a perfectly fine crop of facial hair for free. Why would anyone spend money for a fake? And the price! The Inflation Calculator I always use says: "What cost $30 in 1968 would cost $185.89 in 2010."
But the weirdest thing is the appeal to scam your girlfriend or one-night-stand with fake hair. Huh?
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 27, 2012 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Magazines, Sexuality, 1960s, Facial Hair
Follies of the Mad Men #193
I just don't know... That lion looks pretty forbidding to me, for a suitable company mascot, as if he's saying, "Yeah, pal, just try to take my caffeine fix away from me!"
And won't the creatures of Narnia complain that we're using Aslan as a shill?
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 18, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Products, Food, 1900s
Intermission Ads: An Abandoned Artform
Artforms are not eternal. Sonnets don't get written much anymore. And certainly the Golden Age of the intermission advertisement is, lamentably, long gone.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 12, 2012 -
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Category: Art, Food, Movies, Advertising, 1950s, 1960s
Follies of the Mad Men #192
I wish Mr. Indigo Blue and Mr. Beamish Bright had become as popular as Goofus and Gallant. What adventures they could have had while conquering constipation!
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 24, 2012 -
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Category: Bathrooms, Body, Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1940s
Raving Rabbids
RAVING RABBIDS TRAVEL IN TIME from AKAMA STUDIO on Vimeo.
TRAVEL IN TIME / INCAS from AKAMA STUDIO on Vimeo.
TRAVEL IN TIME / Christophe Colomb from AKAMA STUDIO on Vimeo.
TRAVEL IN TIME / Jules César from AKAMA STUDIO on Vimeo.
TRAVEL IN TIME / Billy the Kid from AKAMA STUDIO on Vimeo.
Despite being advertising for a video game, these mini-cartoons are still pretty weird and funny.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 22, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, Advertising, Cartoons, Time-travel, Videogames and Gamers
Follies of the Mad Men #191
Alcohol and virtual reality: two great tastes that go great together?
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 05, 2012 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Science Fiction, Alcohol
Welcome to Cumback
Of all the towns in America, why did they choose to feature Cumback in their ad? Or was 1958 a more innocent, pre-internet era when the term 'cumback' didn't have the same connotations (see Urban Dictionary) that it does today ?
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 02, 2012 -
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Category: Geography and Maps, Weird Names, Advertising, 1950s
More Giants!
Pitiless beautiful-people giants stalk and dominate mere mortals, making our helpless planet and civilization their careless playground.
And that makes me want to use your airline?
Alex is on to something here!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 29, 2012 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Giant People in Ads, Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, Air Travel and Airlines, Asia, Fictional Monsters
Do Giants Live Amongst Us?
As I pondered this ad, which ran in Time magazine (May 1983), I realized that here on WU we've slowly been accumulating evidence that a race of giants lives amongst us, whose existence is occasionally revealed to the world in advertisements. Consider, for the sake of comparison, these two other ads that Paul and I have previously posted:
Posted By: Alex - Fri Sep 28, 2012 -
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Category: Advertising, Giant People in Ads, Cars
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