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Duke University Ad*Access

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Seven thousand crisply scanned vintage ads, of varying degrees of weirdness, all nicely categorized? Prepare to spend hours here!

Duke University Ad*Access
Posted By: Paul | Date: Tue Apr 02, 2013 | Comments (2)
Category: Advertising, Universities, Colleges, Private Schools and Academia, Twentieth Century

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

Miss Curity Coloring Book

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Click on each page to expand.

1) Yes, that's a fishhook in the lad's finger. How it was extracted before application of bandaid is not known.

2) Do NOT invite Miss Curity to your party--she's a jinx!

3) Why are they peeing into the lemonade?

Please color within the lines!
Posted By: Paul | Date: Wed Mar 27, 2013 | Comments (9)
Category: Art, Comics, Injuries, Advertising, 1950's

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

Beat the Heat with Your Meat

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At last, a solution to global warming!

Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Thu Mar 14, 2013 | Comments (7)
Category: Food, Advertising, 1950's, Weather

Bacon Curls



Yes, these are real.




Posted By: Paul | Date: Fri Mar 08, 2013 | Comments (9)
Category: Celebrities, Movies, Advertising, Junk Food

Mothers need beer!



This ad for Blatz beer has been circulating around the internet for some time. Often people who post these vintage ads never provide a source for them, so it's hard to know if they're real or fake. But in the case of this Blatz ad, I know it's real because I found the following discussion of it in the Church School Journal, 1917. Apparently it was controversial even in the early 20th century:

The whiskey men well know the value of childhood for the formation of permanent habits. Dr. C.T. Wilson says that the advertising of the liquor people has these aims: to secure the use of liquor in homes; to encourage drinking by women; to promote drinking by children; and to put the appetite for drink into unborn children by inducing expectant mothers to drink beer. He showed to a congressional committee an advertisement which read: "How mother and baby picked up: A case of good beer in your home means much to the young mother, and obviously baby partakes in the benefits"; also an advertisement recommending whiskey for delicate undeveloped children; also the picture of a nursing bottle filled with whiskey and taken from a small boy; also a picture of sixteen different hollow toys taken from school children. These hollow toys were all filled with sweet wine or whiskey, and had been given out by drink dealers.
Posted By: Alex | Date: Thu Mar 07, 2013 | Comments (9)
Category: Advertising, Alcohol

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

Charley Says



In this dangerous world, God help all kids who don't have a child-sized cat friend with feline Tourette's Syndrome.

So popular, they have been collected on DVD.



Not to be confused with this other "Charlie says!"


Posted By: Paul | Date: Wed Feb 27, 2013 | Comments (10)
Category: Anthropomorphism, Death, Disasters, PSA's, Advertising, Candy, Cats, Europe

Follies of the Madmen #200

50 Jahre Orion (TV Ad) from MovieBrats Films & Animation on Vimeo.



200 dumb and/or silly ads! How did we get here? What did we learn? Where are we going? Will the public ever wise up? The answers remain enigmatic.

But this over-the-top ad seems his fitting for such a milestone.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Sun Feb 17, 2013 | Comments (4)
Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Products
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