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Follies of the Mad Men #60

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[From Playboy magazine for December 1965.]

Okay, we get it. Your product has an odd name that might lend itself to a double entendre. Such a campaign worked for Smucker's Jelly & Jams, of course. But the problem lies with the verb "sniff." If the ad had read "May I hold your Klompen Kloggen," all would have been good smutty fun. But although you can indeed hold the unlit tobacco, you can't "hold" the delightfully aromatic pipe smoke (the selling point). So the copywriter is forced to use "sniff."

But sniffing some private portion of another individual (the inescapable connotations of "May I sniff your BLANK...) conjures up all sorts of canine or rutting behavior, not sexy but animalistic. One pictures this pretty woman burying her nose in some guy's armpit--or elsewhere.

Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 24, 2009 - Comments (22)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, Tobacco and Smoking, 1960s

Slim Suit

This choice item comes from WU reader AHC! Thanks, chum!

Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 22, 2009 - Comments (10)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Fads, Reader Recommendation

Follies of the Mad Men #59

What exactly was the name of that toy again?

Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 20, 2009 - Comments (3)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Toys, 1970s

Follies of the Mad Men #58

Message: your delicious new Skoda will fall apart in the first rainstorm.


Skoda Car Commercial - The Cake - A funny movie is a click away

Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 17, 2009 - Comments (3)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Cars

Daytona 500 Cologne

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Does this stuff smell like gasoline, burnt rubber, and redneck sweat? If any WU reader has $45.00 to waste, they can purchase some here.

Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 13, 2009 - Comments (4)
Category: Products, Cars, Perfume and Cologne and Other Scents

Follies of the Mad Men #57

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[From Look magazine for April 19 1966.]

This hideous creature is giving me the whim-whams. It's a total juju fetiche. I cannot imagine how any ad man thought this frightful apparition would sell towels. You just know that it's going to scoop out some housewife's eyes with the spoon and scramble her brains with the whisk, all while beating the courageous but small family dog with those wooden legs.

Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 10, 2009 - Comments (7)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, 1960s

The Sleeping Bear

Artist Eiko Ishizawa has designed a bear sleeping bag, which seems very practical, unless a bear happens upon you and decides it wants to mate with this beautiful stranger.

Posted By: Alex - Sun Feb 22, 2009 - Comments (9)
Category: Animals, Products

Follies of the Mad Men #56

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[Upper image from Look magazine for June 20 1961. Lower image from Look magazine for April 24 1962.]

A special "two-fer" installment of the Follies thread. Two splendid representations of our friends, the Native Americans, from within the lifetimes of many WU readers.

They hate cheap cigars, but are experts in premium house paints.

Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 16, 2009 - Comments (10)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1940s, Native Americans

Follies of the Mad Men #55

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[From Look magazine for 12-18-62.]

Of course, every beautiful young woman I know always asks for prune juice in a cocktail glass whenever she's out in public.

Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 09, 2009 - Comments (5)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Excrement, 1960s

Follies of the Mad Men #54

Alex raised the topic of navels earlier, little knowing I had something of a similar nature in store!

This is of course a famous and admittedly effective commercial. But we'll include it in our series of oddities for one trivial reason: no navels shown! In a commercial focusing on several bare stomachs!

It was all part of television broadcast standards back then, just as with the famous I Dream of Jennie prohibition against showing Barbara Eden's navel.

Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 05, 2009 - Comments (4)
Category: Body, Business, Advertising, Products, Food, 1960s

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