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Follies of the Mad Men #115
Okay, if you want to claim that your shaving cream will make the Average Joe resemble a movie star, wouldn't you pick Errol Flynn, say, or even Humphrey Bogart, rather than Frankenstein's monster?
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 14, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Celebrities, Movies, 1940s, Facial Hair, Fictional Monsters
Follies of the Mad Men #114
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 05, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, LGBT, Europe
Follies of the Mad Men #113
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 30, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, 1970s, Sex
Follies of the Mad Men #112
Tires? What tires? You mean they were trying to sell tires? Never saw them....
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 28, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Motor Vehicles, Sex Symbols, Russia
Follies of the Mad Men #111
If only those coupons had been reedeemable for lung surgery.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 24, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Tobacco and Smoking, 1960s
Can’t Do Anything Right? You Are Not Alone
If you stay up late all the time, like I do, chances are you've seen some of the infomercials that this video is based upon. I'm willing to bet you feel better about yourself after you've watched this.
Posted By: Nethie - Tue Jun 22, 2010 -
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Category: Disasters, Domestic, Entertainment, Humor, Pop Culture, Television, Advertising, Goofs and Screw-ups
Follies of the Mad Men #110
1) I have never seen another Schlitz ad with a bear.
2) Bears were not a Schlitz mascot.
3) The text of the ad makes no mention of the bear.
WHAT IS THIS BEAR DOING HERE?
Was there a famous trained bear circa 1942 that Schlitz wanted to associate themselves with? Do bears in the wild have a particular fondness for Schlitz? What university does this bear teach at?
So many questions from one little ad.....
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 21, 2010 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Products, Education, 1940s, Alcohol
Follies of the Mad Men #109
The dancing cigarette pack always reminds me of the moment on The Simpsons when the sexy legs protruding from a basketball mascot costume were shown to belong to good old male Gil.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 04, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Television, Tobacco and Smoking, 1950s
Follies of the Mad Men #108
The link between ballroom dancing and home appliances has never been dramatized so effectively.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 03, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, 1950s, Dance
Follies of the Mad Men #107
You know, even in 1969, despite the prevalence of hype connected with "flower power," I don't think anyone was going to believe that automobiles were pro-nature. And aren't flowers kind of a sissy image for a muscle car anyhow?
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 02, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Nature, 1960s, Cars
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