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Follies of the Madmen #334
Suits for brawlers or bullies only?
UPDATE: now unfortunately hidden behind THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE paywall.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 11, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, 1930s
Follies of the Madmen #333
To me, this ad at first seems to imply that people used whisk brooms on their scalps when they had dandruff. Then I got the meaning that they were always whisking the shoulders of their clothes. But in any case, a liberal application of Listerine--to the scalp, not the shoulders of the clothes--solves everything!
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 06, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, 1940s, Head
Follies of the Madmen #332
Wait a minute--this is my own tire on my own car that is being represented as a hideous criminal killer! And since I, the driver, am responsible for my own tires, I must be a hideous criminal killer too!
Way to make your customers feel good about themselves!
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 29, 2017 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Products, 1930s, Cars
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
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
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