Appliances
Numi Toilet
Longtime WU-vies know all about the Japanese fascination with complex automated toilets. Now there's one for the USA market.
And for only $6400.00!
Read a review here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 13, 2011 -
Comments (5)
Category: Domestic, Appliances, Hygiene, Baths, Showers and Other Cleansing Methods, Body Fluids, Excrement, Flatulence, Money, Outrageous Excess
Vitabrush
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 15, 2011 -
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Category: Appliances, 1940s, Hair and Hairstyling
Violet Healing Rays
Original ad here. (Scroll down a bit.)
Read the history here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 23, 2011 -
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Category: Frauds, Cons and Scams, Health, Technology, Appliances, 1910s
Follies of the Mad Men #122
More ill-conceived use of music in advertising.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 15, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Appliances, Music, 1950s
Dillo Holder
Order yours here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 26, 2010 -
Comments (7)
Category: Animals, Domestic, Appliances, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Alcohol
Follies of the Mad Men #119
Mad Men, here's a secret: music is the realm of emotion and poetry and piercing observations, of romance and satire, of history and dreams.
So when you create a song that is full of boring statistics about a boring object, you look like an idiot, and so does your product.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 19, 2010 -
Comments (7)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Appliances, Music, 1960s
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