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Follies of the Mad Men #129
Doesn't everyone learn to read off cereal boxes?
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 10, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Education, Food, 1950s
Follies of the Mad Men #128
This is the deodorant for habitual teeter-totter users and sculptors of totem poles.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 01, 2010 -
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Category: Body, Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, 1960s
Follies of the Mad Men #127
Yes, I drive a cartoon.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 29, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Cartoons, 1960s, Cars
Follies of the Mad Men #126
How many idiotic themes can you find in this ad? Let me start you out:
1) Women like to hang out in bestiality bars.
2) Only men can or should be responsible for buying condoms.
3) A woman will sense a condom in your pocket and respond.
4) You can be the biggest jerk in the world, but so long as you buy a condom....
I can't go on. Your turn.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 23, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Birth Control , Men, Women
Follies of the Mad Men #125
1) Our food product is so dense and indestructible that it can serve in place of a football.
2) It is not sold on merits of taste, but simply as a "bulking-up" agent.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 12, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Sports, 1960s
Follies of the Mad Men #124
It must indicate something about capitalism circa 1949 that both ad campaigns chose this gigantic, brutal, triumphalist imagery. (Perhaps the two campaigns were created by the same agency even?) The postwar reign of corporate overlords has arrived. "Beware, puny humans! Our glorious products bestride the landscape and will crush you, unless you buy and consume mass quantities!"
Could there be a less-enticing public face for a company?
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 14, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Dreams and Nightmares, 1940s, Alcohol
See A Thief, Catch A Thief
Posted By: Nethie - Thu Oct 07, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Cops, Crime, Government, Jobs and Occupations, Video, More Things To Worry About
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
Worst. Realty Name. Ever.
Visit the insane female realtor here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 13, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Real Estate, Weird Names
Quis Fabricariet Ipsos Fabricares?
Dresden art dealer Petra Kujau was found guilty of forgery this week, after passing off three hundred paintings she had come into possession of as the work of her "great-uncle", Konrad Kujau. The 51 year-old singer turned dealer would add a facsimile of Kujau senior's signature to the paintings, then sell them on at a greatly inflated price.So far, so mundane. What makes this story particularly WU worthy is that Konrad Kujau was himself a forger, and his self-proclaimed niece was selling her forgeries as "genuine forgeries" created by her famous uncle Konrad. It all begins to make sense once you learn that Mr. Kujau did not limit himself to forging paintings, but was also known to forge the odd diary or two, specifically those of one Adolf Hitler. Although ultimately unsuccessful, his forgeries of the Hitler Diaries were good enough to fool not just many newspapers and magazines, but also at least two historians, and the unmasking of the hoax caused many a journalist and editor a red face. But the notoriety afforded Konrad Kujau as the man "behind" the Hitler diaries meant that he could command considerable sums for something a small as Hitler's signature on a card, and original "Kujau forgeries" soon became enough of a collector's item that he could make a comfortable living from them after his release from prison in 1987.
After his death in September 2000 his business was carried on by Petra Kujau, who evidently decided that one forgery was as good as another, and began importing cheap copies of famous works from Asian suppliers and passing them off as eminently more desirable "Kujau forgeries", which in one sense they were. But soon the sheer volume of Kujau forgeries on the market aroused the suspicions of at least one collector, who tipped off the police to the double forgery.
Which just leaves the question, just where can I get hold of a genuine Petra Kujau double forgery? Now that's something I'd like to own!
Posted By: Dumbfounded - Sun Sep 12, 2010 -
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Category: Art, Business, Crime, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators
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