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Follies of the Mad Men #74
[From Good Housekeeping for December 1949.]
"Subliminal" is not the precise word I want here. Not when the coded message is in big red letters.
"Subtextual?" "Off-topic?" "Suggestive?"
In any case, promoting the maxim "husbands beat wives" in a women's magazine was one way of keeping the girls in line, I guess.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 25, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Marriage, Food, Violence, Husbands, Wives, 1940s
Microsoft and Burger King Team Up to Kill You
In Japan, Microsoft and Burger King decided to celebrate the release of Windows 7 with a seven patty high burger. For only 777 yen (about $9) you can purchase this five inch tall, 2500 calorie burger. Daily Mail
Posted By: mdb777 - Fri Oct 23, 2009 -
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Category: Advertising, Asia, Stomach, Eating
Pepsi-Cola!
(from the June 1946 issue of Popular Science)
Posted By: Salamander Sam - Sat Oct 17, 2009 -
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Category: Advertising, Products, 1940s
Neon Boneyard
Here's a Flickr set from one person's visit.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 15, 2009 -
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Category: Museums, Regionalism, Signage, Advertising
Trik Trak
Who wouldn't want one?!?
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 12, 2009 -
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Category: Toys, Advertising, 1960s
I’m Back!
Hello Weird Universe readers. Some of you may remember back in May when I was posting weird things I found in old magazines, and maybe a few of you were wondering what happened to those posts. Being a college student, I had to go home over the summer, and my parents still don't have an internet connection (technically they have AOL, but that doesn't really count), so I had no way to post anything on Weird Universe for a few months. When I got back to Chicago, it took a while to get settled in, and I finally decided I should start posting again. I will try to post a few things a week from now on.I feel I should start with one of the most bizarre juxtapositions ever to appear, well, anywhere:
(from the April 1953 issue of Popular Science)
Posted By: Salamander Sam - Sat Oct 03, 2009 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, War, Advertising, 1950s
Follies of the Mad Men #74
This little film is simply the most brilliant surrealistic, dadaistic piece of cinema of the second half of the twentieth century. Opening with a full minute of a young woman wandering an autumnal landscape, it evolves into an anti-capitalist treatise featuring a world where decorative refrigerators rule mankind. And it's all done without dialogue. Forget Bunuel and Dali! Westinghouse and the Jam Handy Organization rule!
Considering it was made circa 1968, one has to ask: what were they smoking/dropping, and where can I get some today?
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 02, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Interior Decorating, Drugs, 1960s
Follies of the Mad Men #73
Why do I get the sense that this "game" is just one card away from turning into a full-fledged orgy?
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 29, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Games, 1960s
Follies of the Mad Men #72
This one's just for Patty, who registered discontent with our exclusive concentration on the female form!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 27, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Body Modifications, Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, Fictional Monsters
Follies of the Mad Men #71
An ad which inevitably causes the viewer to ask, "Is that a barber pole in your Jockeys, or are you just happy to see me?"
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 11, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Fashion, 1950s, Genitals
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