Domestic
Nobel Prize Perk: Breakfast in Bed
With the Nobel Prize announcements due soon, I think it's time we spoke of a little-known perk for the winners: receiving breakfast in bed from Saint Lucia.
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 23, 2015 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Domestic, Food, Europe
Follies of the Madmen #259
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 07, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Nineteenth Century
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?
What a fine joke! The gear-driven, proto-cybernetic hell world of 1958 now looks more like a paradise compared with our world of 2015. No digitization. Hardly any cars on the highway. Children interacting unsupervised with a living ice-cream man. A TV set that can be repaired with a home visit, rather than going straight to the landfill. Coffee perked at home instead of provided by Starbucks. Human interaction unmediated by screens....
Take me back there now!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 15, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Domestic, Marriage, Family, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #257
Housewife wielding an axe?!? Don't get your hopes up. There is no John-Waters-style carnage ahead in this commercial.
Man, that appliance is huge. Where would it fit in a modern urban kitchen? Maybe in a McMansion....
What do you think the cherry cobbler cooked adjacent to the ham and sweet potatoes is going to taste like?
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 12, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Appliances, Food, 1940s
Femineered!
Now this is how you encourage young girls to study engineering: by showing them refrigerators! I think it's time we brought back this neologism. "The Army Corps of Femineers!" Can you imagine the uniforms? Who wouldn't want to belong?
Posted By: Paul - Mon May 04, 2015 -
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Category: Domestic, Appliances, 1950s, Women
Storm Window Manufacturing
It's a rare child who has a hotline to a storm-window tycoon!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 07, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Domestic, Sports, Juvenile Delinquency
Johnson Smith Catalog Item #33
Which is your favorite?
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 06, 2015 -
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Category: Domestic, Johnson Smith Catalog, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #242
From American Home for September 1966.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 24, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Dreams and Nightmares, 1960s, Fictional Monsters
Malfunction
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 06, 2015 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Domestic, Surrealism, Psychedelic, 1950s
Roto-Rooter Commercials
Saving idiot housewives, time-stressed housewives, and horror fans from yucky stinky water troubles for decades.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 03, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Hygiene, Excrement, 1960s, 1970s
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