Stereotypes and Cliches
Follies of the Madmen #323
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 14, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, Excrement, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1930s
Pass That Peace Pipe
"Why can't we all just get along?"
"Pass that peace pipe, bury that tomahawk/Like those Chichamecks, Cherokees,/Chapultepec's do..."
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 17, 2017 -
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Category: Music, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1940s, Native Americans
Win A Houseboy Contest
In my physical copy of LIFE magazine for December 20, 1963, this ad occupies page 89.In the scanned copy at Google, there is an entirely different ad on page 89. The image you see here is my scan of the paper copy.
I have no explanation for this. Did LIFE print regional issues with different ads?
In any case, I could find no other complete representation of this ad online. (There's a scan of the top part alone, for some reason.)
Thus does WU contribute to the world's stock of knowledge.
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 18, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Ethnic Groupings, Food, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1960s
A Word to the Wives
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 06, 2017 -
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Category: Domestic, Family, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #312
Ah, the hillbilly! What a once-potent icon. Used anywhere these days except Cletus & Family on The Simpsons?
Ad scanned from Playboy for March 1962.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 27, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, Regionalism, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1960s
Billie Carleton’s Death and the Birth of a Genre
Original article here.
How did the hedonistic death of one minor actress lead to Fu Manchu and the Yellow Menace?
Read the whole story here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 21, 2017 -
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Category: Addictions, Crime, Death, Literature, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1910s
Follies of the Madmen #311
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 20, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1960s, Women, Skin and Skin Conditions
Guestward, Ho!
Continuing our look at really dumb and inept TV shows.
Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 14, 2017 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Stereotypes and Cliches, Television, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #302
TV in the teepee. What could be more natural?
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 26, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Stereotypes and Cliches, Television, 1950s
Wonderful Ching-Ching
Additional images and full PDF download here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 09, 2017 -
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Category: Stereotypes and Cliches, Books, Asia, Europe, Nineteenth Century
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