Business
Follies of the Madmen #478
The horrifying Hotpoint Corporate Spokesbeing, with a giant Hotpoint logo wedged into its brain, appears to a mother and child.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 01, 2020 -
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Category: Aliens, Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Domestic, Surrealism, 1940s, Brain Damage
1979 TV Commercials
Your time machine back to forty years ago. Perhaps a solace in such troubled times as now.
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 30, 2020 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Culture and Civilization, Foreign Customs, 1970s
The Phone Thing
Those of us who are old enough might recall that in addition to linear slide rules, there were circular slide rules.Such an arrangement of movable circular parts was extrapolated to a variety of other gadgets for calculating different things.
You can see a museum of such "disk or wheel" charts here.
I set out on this search thanks to the 1979 ad below.
I wonder if anyone relies on such devices nowadays, or if businesses create them for promotional purposes, as Bell Telephones did in 1979.
Phone Thing source. (Page 6)
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 28, 2020 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Telephones, Instruments and Measuring Devices, 1970s
Follies of the Madmen #477
Our cigarettes are enjoyed by problematical outcasts and outsiders.
Source of ad.
Posted By: Paul - Mon May 25, 2020 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Ethnic Groupings, Stereotypes and Cliches, Tobacco and Smoking, 1960s
Citrus & Vegetable Magazine
I cannot find an issue of C&V later than 2014, and the website you see on the cover below seems down. But certainly, if they still exist, they will find it hard to beat the cover for the April 1977 issue.
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 16, 2020 -
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Category: Agriculture, Business, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Magazines
Follies of the Madmen #476
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 10, 2020 -
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Category: Ambiguity, Uncertainty and Deliberate Obscurity, Business, Advertising, Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, 1960s, Gender-bending
Follies of the Madmen #474
Somehow this image of a visiting insurance giant is not reassuring to me. He implies more destruction, rather than solace.
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Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 20, 2020 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Giant People in Ads, Destruction, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #473
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 16, 2020 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Food, Stop-motion Animation, Twenty-first Century
Veggie Cannibalism
We all know of the "animal cannibal" motif in ads. A chicken or cow or pig dressed as a chef invites the viewer to snack on his relatives. But I have never seen veggie cannibalism till this ad.Can WU-vies find other examples?
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 15, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Cannibalism, Vegetables
Follies of the Madmen #472
That mouse is definitely giving the finger. Is it supposed to be a sexy lure for male mice to entice them into the trap? I'm confused....
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Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 10, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Antisocial Activities, Business, Advertising, Death, 1960s
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