Domestic
Follies of the Madmen #455
Imagining oneself swimming through filthy dishwater is not the turn-on the advertisers imagine it to be.
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Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 02, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Miniature People in Ads, Domestic, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #454
Mental burdens of college life.
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Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 26, 2019 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Business, Advertising, Domestic, Fashion, Hygiene, 1950s, Universities, Colleges, Private Schools and Academia
Occasional Wife
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Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 15, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Confusion, Misunderstanding, and Incomprehension, Customs, Domestic, 1960s, Men, Women
Max Und Moritz
Cartoon violence? God forbid!The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 01, 2019 -
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Category: Animals, Antisocial Activities, Death, Destruction, Domestic, Cartoons, Stop-motion Animation, 1940s, Europe, Nineteenth Century
Follies of the Madmen #443
A toilet seat is never, ever going to resonate with "jewels."
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Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 10, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Domestic, Interior Decorating, Body Fluids, Excrement, Flatulence, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #438
Extra credit for the chutzpah of the "full chest" pun. But seriously, if women buy the linens for the home, who is this ad directed at?
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Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 05, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Domestic, Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, 1950s
The House in the Middle
Atomic bombs hate slums, but respect a nice clean domicile.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 13, 2019 -
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Category: Buildings and Other Structures, Death, Destruction, Domestic, War, 1950s
Boil Tested Buttons
Are modern buttons boil tested in the year 2019? It seems overkill to me, even back then. If you had the plastics formulation down pat, and tested it once, would you have to boil every button that came off the "assembly" line?
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Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 06, 2019 -
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Category: Destruction, Domestic, Fashion, Advertising, Twentieth Century
Accidental Family
Jerry van Dyke could not buy a good show for the longest time.The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 18, 2019 -
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Category: Domestic, Family, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Television, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #425
Would any "respectable" company today use, oh, Dita von Teese as their product spokeswoman?
Oh, wait a minute--they would!
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 16, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Domestic, Sex Symbols, 1950s, Twenty-first Century
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