Frauds, Cons and Scams
Follies of the Mad Men #37
We saw how the advertising industry created the concept of "B.O." for "body odor." Here, less successfully, they tried to triple the problem. Note how coyly the term "other personal odors" is used to refer to farting.
Is there any scientific proof that chlorophyll tablets do anything in the human body?
And don't you just love the look of disgust on that gal's face?
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 13, 2008 -
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Category: Body, Business, Advertising, Products, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Hygiene, Medicine, Obsessions, 1950s
Kiddie Treadmills
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 18, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Products, Exercise and Fitness, Fads, Family, Children, Parents, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Technology
Follies of the Mad Men #16
[From Life for May 22 1964.]
Eeeyeeuw! Can you imagine going for a delicious, delicious piece of white chocolate, and ending up with a mouthful of margarine?!?
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 28, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Food, Frauds, Cons and Scams, 1960s
Pyramid Power
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 18, 2008 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Fads, Frauds, Cons and Scams, New Age, Paranormal, Unsolved Mysteries, Foreign Customs, Russia
Obama = Antichrist?!?
Did John McCain and posse really intend to portray Barack Obama as the Antichrist in this recent campaign ad?Decide for yourself....
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 10, 2008 -
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Category: Celebrities, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Government, Officials, Humor, Politics, Religion, ShowBiz, Television, Video, Advertising
Invest in Literature—and a Piece of the Brooklyn Bridge
Do you have a spare $2000.00 lying around the house? Why not send it to this untested fiction writer and receive a share of his entirely hypothetical profits?In fact, I'm a relatively penniless writer too!
Thanks to good pal Sandy Pearlman for discovering this one!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 08, 2008 -
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Category: Frauds, Cons and Scams, Literature, Books, Writers, Money, Charity, Self-help Schemes, Performance Art
Pelmanism
The Pelman Institutes of England and America apparently once claimed over half a million followers. But now they're long gone. Yet that has not stopped at least two folks from trying to resurrect the copyright-abandoned mind-strengthening course and claim and market it as their own. You can see their pages here and here.
Oddly enough, the last vestige of Pelmanism most people know, without realizing its true origin, is the card game we call Concentration or Memory or Pairs.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 04, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Eccentrics, Fads, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Games, History, Historical Figure, New Age, Self-help Schemes
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