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Posted By: Paul | Date: Wed May 29, 2013 | Comments (3)
Category: Business, Advertising, Destruction, Motor Vehicles, Cartoons, 1960's

Follies of the Madmen #205

Posted By: Paul | Date: Wed May 22, 2013 | Comments (2)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, 1960's

Song Poems











The full story is here. But, in short: amateur lyrics put to music for money by studio musician hacks.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Mon May 06, 2013 | Comments (10)
Category: Business, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Twentieth Century

Follies of the Madmen #204



"I would sure like to see more fun commercials like that on television."

Seconded, Gary!
Posted By: Paul | Date: Mon Apr 29, 2013 | Comments (5)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Television, 1950's

International Moves the Browns to Sterling Street



This film makes the Sterling Silver industry looks like the Freemasons, the Bilderberg Group and the Illuminati all rolled up into one. A plan for world domination unfolds!
Posted By: Paul | Date: Sat Apr 27, 2013 | Comments (1)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, 1940's

Skywald Comics

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The image above is the first cover from one of the more oddball comics firms of the 1970s, Skywald Publications.

You can read the whole of issue number one of Nightmare here, at the Internet Archive, which also features several other full comics from Skywald.


Posted By: Paul | Date: Thu Apr 25, 2013 | Comments (5)
Category: Business, Eccentrics, Comics, 1930's

Suntory Whisky



Nine shots and he can still walk! That must be some weak booze....
Posted By: Paul | Date: Thu Apr 18, 2013 | Comments (4)
Category: Business, Advertising, 1960's, Asia, Alcohol

Follies of the Madmen #203

Turkish Airlines - Wingo TVC - English from Robotika Films on Vimeo.



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I don't know... That bird reminds me of too many other incompetent fictional birds. Especially the klutzy Launchpad McQuack. I'm not feeling in good hands--or wings--here.

Posted By: Paul | Date: Mon Apr 01, 2013 | Comments (5)
Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Air Travel and Airlines, Europe

Follies of the Madmen #202







"Fun to play with, not to eat!" "Impossible to eat!" And why did the last commercial change the refrain to "impossible to BEAT"...?

Yeah, right, impossible to eat. How many of these imitation foodstuffs were forcefed or enticingly offered to unsuspecting younger siblings who scarfed them down?
Posted By: Paul | Date: Fri Mar 15, 2013 | Comments (8)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Toys

Follies of the Madmen #201

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The message here? Sloppy panties imperil the elderly and the nation's health care policies.

Original ad here.

Posted By: Paul | Date: Fri Mar 01, 2013 | Comments (8)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Elderly, Underwear, 1940's
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