Electrify Your Wife

In a similar vein to other ads from that era, such as "Recipe for boiled wife" and "Beat your wife tonight (at bowling)."

Life - Dec 12, 1969

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Posted By: Alex - Tue Nov 21, 2023
Category: Advertising | Wives | Marriage | 1960s

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The caption reminds me so much of the scene where a man is strapped into an electric chair, a guard is ready to throw the switch, and a chaplain and the warden are standing near him. The warden has a small bag and says: "Would you mind holding this pack of microwave popcorn? We have a little bet going on."

Posted by Phideaux on 11/22/23 at 12:20 AM

Interestingly enough, a couple of years later than Simon and Garfunkel's Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine, which contains the lyrics "electrify your life", not "wife". Was either of those a standard phrase back then?

Posted by Richard Bos on 11/25/23 at 11:44 AM

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