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more about #classicads more comments → JacquesPaysan: Man, Sterling Cooper really has come a long way. more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: What's the difference between a crooked pistol and a constipated owl? more » Perhaps Not: Interestingly, this gun may not have killed that little girl (or her doll), but it did kill William McKinley. [en.wikipedia.org] To the the Temple Of... more » TheBusinessGuy: I dunno. That doll looks awfully dead to me. Ah, but wasn't it great when things were made right here in Fitchburg, USA? more » Spirit Fingers: Papa says it won't hurt us. Giving me all kinds of creepy vibe. And a fire-arms encyclopaedia (aedia!) sounds waayyyy too "smarty-pants, killing ai... more » shostakobitch: What about their bicycles? were they controversial to city folk? more » waitingforlefty: I'm almost positive that's the little girl from "Night of the Hunter." more » Claire Buoyant: Translation: We make good guns, but we don't want to remind you that our weapon was so good that it killed President McKinley. (An Iver Johnson pisto... more » AzureTexan: "Accidental Discharge Impossible" Slogan of the new Iver Johnson sex aid, Premature Ejacnegation more » BullfightsOnAcid: Accidental Discharge Impossible That's what I told my wife when we first met. She now says it was false advertising. more » BadUncle: If I had to sleep next to that doll, I'd be reaching for my revolver, too. more » Z und Vielpunkt's chick: That looks just like the gun I used to play with as a little girl! more » cassandra: How did that little blond child grow up to be a short, swarthy Frenchman? Baffling. #advertising more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Alors... he's the Marilyn Chambers of France? Here, while you're thinking about it, french yourself up a little... #advertising more » randomnessish: Was young Nicolas Sarkozy also a Vietnam war vet? Because if that apparent lack of anything below the knee is true, he needs a bottle of booze and a ... more » -
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Murderous Pistol Cannot Hurt You
Iver Johnson Revolvers "are not toys: they shoot straight and kill." Nevertheless, they're "absolutely safe," and "Papa says they won't hurt us." In 1913, as now, gun owners were mainly schizophrenics. [Copyranter] -
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Nicolas Sarkozy Prefers Bonux Detergent
Here is the most powerful man in France, Nicolas Sarkozy, starring in a detergent ad circa 1967. Your fears are true, kids: Embarrassing things you do now will come back to embarrass you again decades later. [Telegraph via Adfreak] -
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Your Mind Will Be on One Thing Only
I believe this is a 1929 ad for ExtenZe. [Copyranter. Click to enlarge.] -
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Stupid Lazy Dishonest Mexican Likes Sanka
Whoa: It's an old Sanka ad from the 1940s that's totally racist against Mexicans. How racist? You'll just have to click to enlarge and read the whole racist thing. People like you like this stuff. We hear. [Copyranter] -
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When Cigarette Ads Had Balls
In five years, will you be a wheezing, blackened mess? Or—conversely—will you have five more years of tobacco byproducts in your lungs? Well. You have to admire their "Lie big or lie dead" attitude. Click to enlarge. [Copyranter] -
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[Had to Discard Every Headline]
"The Journal is a wonderful aid to men," this ad says, in real life. [Copyranter at Animal NY] -
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Disco Stu Welcomes You
Ha, it's an old ad for Plato's Retreat, NYC's most famous disco-era swingers' club. Plato's is "not for everybody" (gays), but if you like publicly sexin' swingers in comical outfits, well, you should have been around 30 years ago. [DBTH] -
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'DDT Is Good For Me-e-e!'
"During 1946, exhaustive scientific tests have shown that, when properly used, DDT kills a host of destructive insect pests, and is a benefactor of all humanity." And cancer. Copyranter found a particularly good one today. Click through for full version. More » -
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Sprite Blow Job Ad Shockingly Derivative
Disappointingly for sex-on-Youtube purists, the fake banned Sprite blow job ad that shook the world to its very (sexy) core yesterday is not the first time that exploding carbonation has been used as a male orgasm metaphor. More » -
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Coca-Cola: Superior to Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Heroin Syrup
"Coca-Cola is a delightful palatable and healthful BEVERAGE. It relieves fatigue and is indispensable for (Business and Professional) MEN: Students, Wheelmen, Athletes. It relieves mental and physical exhaustion." And for the ladies? More » -
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Keep Your Baby Fresh, In Cellophane
"Good things are twice as good in cellophane." You know, this would be just as powerful if it were an ad for microwaves. Yes, it's real! Click to enlarge. [Copyranter] -
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Stupid Americans Eat Grape Nuts
What is a Grape Nut? "Carin Gendell, who was its senior brand manager in the 1980s, remembers how her staff described it. 'Grape Nuts,' she says, 'was people eating advertising.'" Grape Nuts are made out of lies! More » -
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When Appliances Made Americans Weird
Classic appliance ads from the halcyon days when women were in the kitchen, dad was drunk in the den, and kids were really fucking creepy-looking: is there anything better? More » -
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The Campy Swine Flu Ads that Saved America
During the Great Swine Flu Panic of 1976, they didn't leave the PANIC alert to the newspaper hacks; they had PSAs to explain how not getting a flu shot would kill you and your family. More » -
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Six Million Ways to Die
This,reportedly from a "European trade publication circa 1998,"may be the single most unintentionally terrible ad ever produced. At least in the last1128 years. Click to enlarge. [via Fishbowl LA] More » -
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Drink Your Bitters: AIG's Ads From the Good Old Days
You know what you don't see much any more? Those supremely reassuring AIG TV commercials. They've disappeared, for some reason. Luckily astute (and bitter) people have preserved them on the internet! More » -
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Classic GM Ads: When Times Were Not So Terrible
Poor General Motors Corp may not be around forever if certain auto dealers on a bus ride cannot persuade the federal government to give the failing company $25 billion. Sad! Remember when GM cars ruled the roads, America ruled the world, and men were men? Those were the days. We've collected a gallery of ten classic GM ads from the good old days of the 1930s, to remind you of what once was, and what shall never be again. Weep for your autos: More »
