Hygiene
Follies of the Madmen #590
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 18, 2024 -
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Category: Crime, Hygiene, Advertising, 1980s, Europe
Is your washroom breeding Bolsheviks?
Some discussion of the ad from Paradoxes of Nostalgia by Penny Von Eschen:
It sounds like the ad inspired quite a few parodies, but I was only able to find one:
The ad also provided the name for a 1988 album by the punk rock group The Neurotics:
Posted By: Alex - Fri Feb 16, 2024 -
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Category: Hygiene, Advertising, 1930s
Fireball Jungle
The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 15, 2024 -
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Category: Hygiene, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, 1960s, Cars
The Kasa-Obake
One of the weirder Japanese mythological creatures.Wikipedia tells us:
They are generally umbrellas with one eye and jump around with one leg, but sometimes they have two arms or two eyes among other features,[2][6] and they also sometimes are depicted to have a long tongue.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 23, 2024 -
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Category: Hygiene, Asia, Fictional Monsters
Anthropomorphic Fels-Naptha Ads
Fels-Naptha Soap really went big on the living clothing and living soap box concept.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 31, 2023 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Domestic, Hygiene, Advertising, Twentieth Century
Follies of the Madmen #584
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 26, 2023 -
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Category: Hygiene, Advertising, Myths and Fairytales, 1970s
Charmin’s Marshall Money
He's no Mister Whipple!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 11, 2023 -
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Category: Hygiene, Premiums, Come-ons, Giveaways, Lossleaders and Freebies, Advertising, Wild West and US Frontier, 1960s
Somnambulist Bathing
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 29, 2023 -
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Category: Hygiene, Sleep and Dreams, Danger, Risk, and Peril, 1910s
Follies of the Madmen #580
"Take some advice from the Professor of Love."
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 06, 2023 -
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Category: Hygiene, Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, Advertising, 1970s
“Washable” Roses
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 05, 2023 -
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Category: Domestic, Hygiene, Nature, Camouflage, Counterintelligence, Diversions, Chaff and Fakeouts, Advertising, 1960s
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