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Explosion, Assault, Ostriches
Somehow I missed this video from 2012. Theorized at the time to be a viral marketing ploy. But I can't find any evidence it was ever resolved. Can WU-vies pin down a definitive answer?
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 10, 2020 -
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Category: Ambiguity, Uncertainty and Deliberate Obscurity, Animals, Violence, Advertising
Follies of the Madmen #465
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Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 06, 2020 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Cryptozoology, Twentieth Century, Hair and Hairstyling
Mum Loves Me Now
Bile beans as a cure for parental neglect.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Feb 05, 2020 -
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Category: Advertising, Parents, 1950s
Fetal Paperweight
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Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 04, 2020 -
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Category: Body, Pregnancy, Business, Advertising
Follies of the Madmen #464
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Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 01, 2020 -
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Category: Bicycles and Other Human-powered Vehicles, Business, Advertising, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1950s, Men, Women, Alcohol
Follies of the Madmen #463
The most potent cosmic force in the multiverse approves of this floor polish.Source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 28, 2020 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Domestic, 1920s
Follies of the Madmen #462
Swiss watch inexplicably personified as a sleeping Mexican.
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Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 20, 2020 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Stereotypes and Cliches, Foreign Customs, Europe, North America
Follies of the Madmen #461
Most hideous and amateurish product mascot ever?
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Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 13, 2020 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, 1970s
Follies of the Madmen #460
Those are growing underwater plants surrounding the buried woman. This is plainly a mermaid, a superhuman, or an unnaturally happy Mob victim.
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Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 06, 2020 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Cosmetics, Death, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #459
Sanitary pad endows woman with power to make flowers sprout from inanimate objects.
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Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 31, 2019 -
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Category: Body, Genitals, Business, Advertising, Hygiene, Body Fluids, Magic and Illusions and Sleight of Hand, 1960s
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