Bizarre Old Ads, The Evolution of Culture |
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Bizarre Old Ads, The Evolution of Culture |
 Oct 26 2007, 01:10 PM
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 Postmodern Punditeer  Group: Full Member Posts: 4,960 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 24  |
As a designer, I collect historic old ads that strike me as truly bizarre and strange by today’s standards. They reflect the cultural norms of society, especially through the eyes and minds of marketing firms and corporations of their time.
Here is one of my favorites that extolled the benefits of TV for kids of the 1950's...for as they said, "TV means better behavior at home and better marks at school!" -------------------- "It's not how many times you draw breath that counts in a lifetime, but how many time something takes your breath away."
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Oct 26 2007, 01:16 PM
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Postmodern Punditeer Group: Full Member Posts: 4,960 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 24 |
-------------------- "It's not how many times you draw breath that counts in a lifetime, but how many time something takes your breath away."
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Oct 26 2007, 02:06 PM
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Postmodern Punditeer Group: Full Member Posts: 4,960 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 24 |
-------------------- "It's not how many times you draw breath that counts in a lifetime, but how many time something takes your breath away."
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Oct 26 2007, 02:08 PM
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Postmodern Punditeer Group: Full Member Posts: 4,960 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 24 |
Eat_Lard_ad.jpg ( 18.09K )
Number of downloads: 70
prostatitis_ad.jpg ( 47.09K )
Number of downloads: 75-------------------- "It's not how many times you draw breath that counts in a lifetime, but how many time something takes your breath away."
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Oct 26 2007, 02:09 PM
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Postmodern Punditeer Group: Full Member Posts: 4,960 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 24 |
-------------------- "It's not how many times you draw breath that counts in a lifetime, but how many time something takes your breath away."
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Oct 26 2007, 02:10 PM
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Postmodern Punditeer Group: Full Member Posts: 4,960 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 24 |
-------------------- "It's not how many times you draw breath that counts in a lifetime, but how many time something takes your breath away."
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Oct 26 2007, 02:12 PM
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Postmodern Punditeer Group: Full Member Posts: 4,960 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 24 |
-------------------- "It's not how many times you draw breath that counts in a lifetime, but how many time something takes your breath away."
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Oct 26 2007, 02:37 PM
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Postmodern Punditeer Group: Full Member Posts: 4,960 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 24 |
2_Wella_Balsom.jpg ( 14.85K )
Number of downloads: 62
2_Float_shorts.jpg ( 48.01K )
Number of downloads: 61-------------------- "It's not how many times you draw breath that counts in a lifetime, but how many time something takes your breath away."
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Oct 26 2007, 02:38 PM
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Postmodern Punditeer Group: Full Member Posts: 4,960 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 24 |
-------------------- "It's not how many times you draw breath that counts in a lifetime, but how many time something takes your breath away."
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Oct 26 2007, 02:39 PM
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Postmodern Punditeer Group: Full Member Posts: 4,960 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 24 |
-------------------- "It's not how many times you draw breath that counts in a lifetime, but how many time something takes your breath away."
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Oct 26 2007, 03:05 PM
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 gaydiva vaisnava Group: Full Member Posts: 5,388 Joined: 3-March 05 Member No.: 32 let's create a new God |
QUOTE (Kalisurfer @ Oct 26 2007, 10:08 AM)
Eat_Lard_ad.jpg ( 18.09K )
Number of downloads: 70
prostatitis_ad.jpg ( 47.09K )
Number of downloads: 75 that would be a good match between paul bunyan and that prostatitus machine --------------------  |
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Oct 26 2007, 04:14 PM
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 This member has left Gaudiya Repercussions. Group: Former Members Posts: 7,266 Joined: 1-March 05 From: USA Member No.: 2 |
TV will bring families together? In retrospect that's so funny. Yes, in the beginning families all watched their one huge TV together in the living room and laughed at or commented on the shows. With the advent of TVs in every room, Tivos and VCRs and so on, each family member could watch what they wanted to watch. And so they did...each in their separate rooms. Add computers, mp3 players and video games into the mix and we are often hooked up to our respective electronic devices, oblivious to the others in the house with us.
I also had to laugh at the lard and sugar ads...and the douche ads were a priceless look into the early campaign to encourage women to view their bodies as unacceptable. -------------------- "We have fallen into the place where everything is music." --Rumi he said change the channel/i've got problems of my own/i'm so sick of hearing about drugs/and aids/and people without homes/and i said, well,/i'd like to sympathize with that/but if you/don't understand/then how can you act --Ani DiFranco My LiveJournal |
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Oct 26 2007, 06:59 PM
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 On the path Group: Full Member Posts: 149 Joined: 24-April 06 From: San Francisco Bay Area - East Bay Member No.: 255 |
QUOTE (Tapati @ Oct 26 2007, 08:14 AM) ...and the douche ads were a priceless look into the early campaign to encourage women to view their bodies as unacceptable. Yes, and they expected us to put Lysol up ourselves! Truly a terrifying thought. |
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Oct 27 2007, 03:55 AM
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Pundit Group: Full Member Posts: 595 Joined: 27-March 05 From: victoria b.c. Member No.: 66 |
QUOTE (Strange Pilgrim @ Oct 26 2007, 11:59 AM) QUOTE (Tapati @ Oct 26 2007, 08:14 AM) ...and the douche ads were a priceless look into the early campaign to encourage women to view their bodies as unacceptable. Yes, and they expected us to put Lysol up ourselves! Truly a terrifying thought. Women who actually did that must be dead from cancer by now. I was born in 1949, but i never heard of douching with lysol! Even douches seemed instinctively invasive, no woman i knew of (mother, older female cousins) ever bought that hype. I mean, bathing regularly wasn't invented by Hindus although when i was a child growing up in the country with no indoor plumbing, and one of 9 kids, it was bath time every Sunday and sponge bath before going to school and before bedtime. When i got older and got my own place, the luxury of bathing in the morning and evening was a direct result of enforced water restrictions at home (because of economics). It is good for a laugh to see (and vaguely remember) those ads from that era. And let us not forget the smoking ads, ads for Coca cola, wonder bread, etc |
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Oct 27 2007, 04:12 PM
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 Pundit? Group: Full Member Posts: 5,503 Joined: 2-March 05 From: Sweden Member No.: 6 Irregular Member |
I don't understand the one about prostatitis. What were the men supposed to do with that thing?
-------------------- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Einstein)
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Oct 27 2007, 04:27 PM
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 [none] Group: Full Member Posts: 2,872 Joined: 15-February 07 From: Amsterdam Member No.: 701 |
QUOTE (Dhyana @ Oct 27 2007, 06:12 PM) I don't understand the one about prostatitis. What were the men supposed to do with that thing? Who wants to answer this one, guys? |
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Oct 27 2007, 09:15 PM
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Apasampradayi Group: Full Member Posts: 1,658 Joined: 2-March 05 From: now Székesfehérvár, Hungary Member No.: 8 An infiltrator |
I have an overactive imagination. It looks like it should be stuck up to heat that darn gland from the inside... Yikes!
 It sounds worse than having a prostatitis. -------------------- I am a fanatic!
It is just that my principles are much more palatable. |
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Oct 28 2007, 06:06 PM
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Postmodern Punditeer Group: Full Member Posts: 4,960 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 24 |
QUOTE (Dhyana @ Oct 27 2007, 12:12 PM) I don't understand the one about prostatitis. What were the men supposed to do with that thing? According to the late Doc Martin, the ole Dial a Therm would be lubed on the outside and the then taken to the rear of the Keshter where it would be stuck up the rim of the Stutshter and pushed up until it came in contact with the prostrating Hemanstater, where it would then do its duty warming and dilating the symptoms of Prostatitis. While a few others did it for the mere joy of it all!
-------------------- "It's not how many times you draw breath that counts in a lifetime, but how many time something takes your breath away."
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Oct 28 2007, 06:13 PM
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Pundit? Group: Full Member Posts: 5,503 Joined: 2-March 05 From: Sweden Member No.: 6 Irregular Member |
Ah zoooo. Now I zee.
 Thanx!
-------------------- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Einstein)
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Oct 28 2007, 09:16 PM
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Guests |
before diet pills, before Olestra
(I'm not sure which of the three is worse)
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