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Follies of the Madmen #316
I always take my sleep advice from Big Steel.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 01, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Dreams and Nightmares, 1950s
Win A Houseboy Contest
In my physical copy of LIFE magazine for December 20, 1963, this ad occupies page 89.In the scanned copy at Google, there is an entirely different ad on page 89. The image you see here is my scan of the paper copy.
I have no explanation for this. Did LIFE print regional issues with different ads?
In any case, I could find no other complete representation of this ad online. (There's a scan of the top part alone, for some reason.)
Thus does WU contribute to the world's stock of knowledge.
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 18, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Ethnic Groupings, Food, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #314
I'm just glad this was not an ad for TOILET paper.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 14, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, 1930s
Mystery Illustration 45
Which product is exemplified by this illustration?
The answer is here.
And after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 11, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Surrealism, 1940s
Follies of the Madmen #313
That is one friendly and powerful cereal.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 07, 2017 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Products, Food, 1900s
Destruct Therapy
The Stop Stress Group is a Spanish company founded by Jorge Arribas Haro in 2003. It offers stress management and team-building therapy to companies, and it specializes in "Destruct Therapy" (Destructoterapia), which involves giving office workers sledge hammers, taking them out to a junk yard, and having them vent their rage on "cars, washing machines, refrigerators, television sets, and so on."In the video below there's one burly guy who seems like a ringer, and then a bunch of people who are more like tapping the car with the sledgehammer. They're probably thinking, "Why do we have to do this idiotic team building exercise?"
The concept of Destruct Therapy reminds me of Destructivist Art.
Posted By: Alex - Thu May 04, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Psychology
Mystery Illustration 44
What is this woman's domestic sin? Unable to make coffee? Wears curlers to bed? Bad breath?
Answer after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Tue May 02, 2017 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #312
Ah, the hillbilly! What a once-potent icon. Used anywhere these days except Cletus & Family on The Simpsons?
Ad scanned from Playboy for March 1962.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 27, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, Regionalism, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #311
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 20, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1960s, Women, Skin and Skin Conditions
Newt Kook
Hard to believe that the largest-selling bourbon was once touted by a fellow named "Newt Kook."This timeline of Dant's history makes no mention of Newt. And Google comes up empty for any biographical particulars. Could he have been a fake, a corporate icon like "Betty Crocker?"
This January 30 1956 report from BROADCASTING MAGAZINE seems to say otherwise. Although who knows who was on the other end of the phone?
Original ad here.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 12, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Products, Alcohol
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