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Follies of the Madmen #276
1) Sausage pancakes.
2) Cocktail shaker preparation.
3) Wife-swapping ambiance.
Everything you could want in a commercial!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 04, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Sexuality, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #275
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 19, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Hygiene, Hermits, 1960s, 1970s
Follies of the Madmen #274
Horny beach bunnies switch instantly from thoughts of lust to thoughts of dental hygiene.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 12, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Children, Parents, 1960s, Teeth
Follies of the Madmen #273
Happy Joe Lucky was no Roger Rabbit, but he does a credible job here with Gisele MacKenzie.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 06, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Television, Tobacco and Smoking, Cartoons, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #272
Please spend half a minute to contemplate the subtext of this imagery. A pagan housewife (prefiguring BEWITCHED?) performs black magic to seduce and beguile a priest, with hubby nowhere in sight. Happens in 1950s suburbia every Sunday.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 17, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Food, Mass Transit, Religion, 1950s
Thai Parkour Commercial
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 09, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Asia
Desk Riders
I sure would like to know more about this system/device/technology, but I can't google up anything else. Maybe WU-vies can help!
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 07, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Technology, 1930s
Follies of the Madmen #269
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 26, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Tobacco and Smoking, Husbands, Wives, Air Travel and Airlines, 1970s
Follies of the Madmen #268
This was one of a series of postwar ads for magnesium, which illustrated how the miracle metal would allow consumers to do things nobody would ever want to do, like carry a baby carriage on your shoulder.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 21, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Technology, Babies and Toddlers, 1940s
Follies of the Madmen #267
It's funny, because women don't know which end of a lathe is up!
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 08, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Stereotypes and Cliches, Tools, Hair Styling, 1960s, Women
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