One of the largest producers of TV commercials made this short film in the 1960s, as an in-house joke that probably would have landed them in very hot water if their clients had ever seen it.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Aug 9, 2009 5:45:59pm |
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UncleSam Sun, Aug 9, 2009 5:48:58pm |
That was pretty cool.
The topless model in the bathtub was a nice surprise.
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jorline Sun, Aug 9, 2009 5:49:26pm |
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NonNativeTexan Sun, Aug 9, 2009 5:49:55pm |
Sarcasm and nudity are nothing new. Got your attention now,
right?
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brookly red Sun, Aug 9, 2009 5:50:28pm |
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brookly red Sun, Aug 9, 2009 5:51:47pm |
re: #6 NonNativeTexan
Sarcasm and nudity are nothing new. Got your attention now,
right?
I love working in advertising…
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jorline Sun, Aug 9, 2009 5:51:48pm |
re: #7 brookly red
He grew up to be a seanator, no?
Not to be confused with his uncle “Tricky Dick”.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Aug 9, 2009 5:54:27pm |
As I was walking down the street
One dark and dreary day
I came upon a billboard
Was much to my dismay
The sign was torn and tattered
From the storm the night before
The wind and rain
Had done it’s work
And this is what I saw…
Smoke Coca-Cola cigarettes, chew Wrigley’s Spearmint beer,
Ken-L Ration Dog Food keeps your wife’s complexion clear
Simonize your baby with a Hershey’s candy bar
And Texaco’s the beauty cream that’s used by all the stars.
So take your next vacation in a brand new Frigidaire
Learn to play the piano in your winter underwear
Doctors say that babies should smoke until they’re three
And people over 65 should bathe in Lipton Tea.
Plip Plop.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Aug 9, 2009 5:54:58pm |
re: #4 UncleSam
Oh, then you should like the link in #2.
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jorline Sun, Aug 9, 2009 5:56:25pm |
re: #11 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
As I was walking down the street
One dark and dreary day
I came upon a billboard
Was much to my dismay
The sign was torn and tattered
From the storm the night before
The wind and rain
Had done it’s work
And this is what I saw…Smoke Coca-Cola cigarettes, chew Wrigley’s Spearmint beer,
Ken-L Ration Dog Food keeps your wife’s complexion clear
Simonize your baby with a Hershey’s candy bar
And Texaco’s the beauty cream that’s used by all the stars.So take your next vacation in a brand new Frigidaire
Learn to play the piano in your winter underwear
Doctors say that babies should smoke until they’re three
And people over 65 should bathe in Lipton Tea.
Plip Plop.
Plop Plop
Fizz Fizz
Oh what a relief it is!
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Aug 9, 2009 5:59:22pm |
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DEZes Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:00:32pm |
re: #19 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Did you Eva see her sister?
I think I just saw both her sisters when he yelled cut.
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Crimsonfisted Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:00:33pm |
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Silvergirl Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:00:39pm |
I’m sure their parody gave the commercial producers a big laugh back in the day, but it doesn’t stand the test of time.
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DEZes Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:02:04pm |
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Captain Amercia Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:02:14pm |
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BoomBoom Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:03:02pm |
Nice to finally log on again since the spring of ‘04- been good reading inbetween then and now
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Charles Johnson Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:03:09pm |
“Her husband is an oil rigger for Chesterfield cigarettes. Her problem: stubborn stains.”
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Crimsonfisted Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:03:33pm |
re: #23 Pianobuff
Was that Frasier Crane?
I wish someone would take all the Niles quotes about Maris and her looks, string them together and Photoshop an image.
It would be a hoot.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:03:45pm |
Time for pizza and beer.
“Not all men are stupid. Some are bachelors”.
/I kid
Later Lizards.
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DEZes Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:03:58pm |
re: #27 Charles
“Her husband is an oil rigger for Chesterfield cigarettes. Her problem: stubborn stains.”
Not sure I really got that one.
Help a guy out?
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:04:42pm |
re: #27 Charles
“Her husband is an oil rigger for Chesterfield cigarettes. Her problem: stubborn stains.”
… and his day job is driving relief cab … or something.
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Cato the Elder Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:05:13pm |
I can actually remember when advertisers said things like, “Mr. and Mrs. America, out there in radioland…”
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:05:34pm |
re: #30 DEZes
Not sure I really got that one.
Help a guy out?
Think “Marlboro Man”
Flip that image over to “oil rigger for Chesterfield cigs”
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Pianobuff Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:06:30pm |
I was hoping that the Russian knocker-ladies would show up at the end.
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Charles Johnson Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:07:01pm |
“Sometimes Homer is unknowingly offensive.”
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:07:09pm |
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DEZes Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:07:23pm |
re: #33 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Think “Marlboro Man”
Flip that image over to “oil rigger for Chesterfield cigs”
DOH!
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:07:34pm |
re: #32 Cato the Elder
Wow. Is the Kaiser still there?
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pat Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:08:02pm |
Excellent. Of course now the men are boobs, and the women the men of the house in the current cliche family.
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DEZes Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:08:08pm |
re: #37 Pianobuff
I was hoping that the Russian knocker-ladies would show up at the end.
They kinda did. ;)
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:08:30pm |
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Cato the Elder Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:08:36pm |
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:08:49pm |
re: #36 Charles
Don’t miss 4:10.
Yeah, all right, I didn’t.
But now how in th’ hell do I get my eyebrows outta my hairline?
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:09:56pm |
re: #46 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Yeah, all right, I didn’t.
But now how in th’ hell do I get my eyebrows outta my hairline?
She looked very familiar ,,,
hmmm
ummm
HEY ,,,WAIT ,, that was my MOM!!
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:10:36pm |
re: #38 Charles
“Sometimes Homer is unknowingly offensive.”
:D … That was straight outta the Fifties.
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DEZes Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:10:53pm |
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esch Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:11:02pm |
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dmandman Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:11:29pm |
re: #39 sattv4u2
The bit with the all in one remedy wasn’t too far off. Geritol was orginally sold as a cure all, until the Alcohol tax people started to want to place a tax stamp on the bottles because they over 100 proof. People of the time were kinda shocked when they learned what the secret ingredient that took all pains away was.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:12:05pm |
re: #47 sattv4u2
She looked very familiar ,,,
hmmm
ummm
HEY ,,,WAIT ,, that was my MOM!!
(*murmuring, staring at the monitor* … should I? … should I? … ?)
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DEZes Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:12:34pm |
re: #52 pre-Boomer Marine brat
(*murmuring, staring at the monitor* … should I? … should I? … ?)
Go ahead, I kinda chickened out.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:13:09pm |
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DEZes Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:13:17pm |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:13:23pm |
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:13:45pm |
re: #27 Charles
probably would have landed them in very hot water if their clients
How right you are. TV standards back then mandated that if a man and a woman were on the same bed at least one of them haed to have at least one foot VISIBLY on the floor. On the Dick Van Dyke show and I Love Lucy thats why in the “bedroom scenes” hubby and wife were in twin beds, SEPERATE
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DEZes Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:13:56pm |
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Crimsonfisted Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:14:10pm |
re: #55 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Do they even make Chesterfield cigs anymore?!?!
I was thinking that about Geritol! I had to look it up. I am getting to be too old. I still think I am a Hee Haw girl wannabe.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:15:17pm |
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:16:11pm |
re: #54 DEZes
Go ahead, I kinda chickened out.
There are some things which are beyond the pale.
/rats! … :D
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Charles Johnson Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:16:16pm |
I think Americans were better at keeping secrets back then.
Not sure if that’s good or bad.
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DEZes Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:16:21pm |
re: #61 Crimsonfisted
I was thinking that about Geritol! I had to look it up. I am getting to be too old. I still think I am a Hee Haw girl wannabe.
Geritol is still made, get in the way to it in Wal-Mart… be very afraid.
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Killgore Trout Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:16:24pm |
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:17:19pm |
re: #42 pat
Excellent. Of course now the men are boobs, and the women the men of the house in the current cliche family.
heh
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DEZes Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:17:48pm |
re: #63 pre-Boomer Marine brat
There are some things which are beyond the pale.
/rats! … :D
So we are both chicken. ;)
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BoomBoom Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:18:30pm |
moderen day commercials-with the same tone- Enzyte- ‘Bob is living large’ or ‘Bob has a swelling of pride’ Same family, 50’s atmosphere
good play on the style
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dmandman Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:18:33pm |
re: #65 DEZes
Minimal alcohol now…FDA still has a problem with Patent Medicines though…some of them contain some really dangerous stuff (especially from third world countries).
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:19:12pm |
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Pianobuff Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:19:33pm |
The good ole days, before teh Internets, TIVO, cel phones, and texting.
Back when commercials like this were legal…
More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette
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DEZes Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:21:21pm |
re: #70 dmandman
Minimal alcohol now…FDA still has a problem with Patent Medicines though…some of them contain some really dangerous stuff (especially from third world countries).
Anything with alcohol is heavily taxed.
Medicine should never be just simple booze.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:22:17pm |
re: #64 Charles
I think Americans were better at keeping secrets back then.
Not sure if that’s good or bad.
How do you mean “keeping secrets”?
We were (take your pick) more dignified/repressed/discreet/inhibited/etc.
There were things which someone of breeding didn’t talk about.
/all that died in the Sixties
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esch Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:22:18pm |
re: #74 Killgore Trout
Good luck.
Heh, I meant she loves quirky crap like that. Made me chuckle too.
Good find.
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Crimsonfisted Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:22:44pm |
re: #62 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Lou Ann or Kathy?
Or… gulp… Barbie Benton
Minnie Pearl. Now. Not then. The voices in my head tell me that yes, you can still be a Hew Haw girl. Or one of Dean Martin’s Gold Diggers.
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:23:18pm |
re: #64 Charles
I think Americans were better at keeping secrets back then.
Not sure if that’s good or bad.
In the sense that I don’t think we need to know EVERY factoid of someone (think all the reality shows,,, all the commercials for erectile dysfunction ,,, the instant info on an atheletes foibles) it’s a bad thing. We’ve become too tabloid obsessed. I think it was good for a little child to have a Joe DiMaggio or a Babe Ruth as a hero. We don’t need to knwo that the Babe was a chronic woman chaser/ boozer
OTOH, it’s good to have politicians in the light. I WANT to know who they associate with. I WANT to know who’s contributing BIG dollars to them
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Pianobuff Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:25:48pm |
re: #79 sattv4u2
In the sense that I don’t think we need to know EVERY factoid of someone (think all the reality shows,,, all the commercials for erectile dysfunction ,,, the instant info on an atheletes foibles) it’s a bad thing. We’ve become too tabloid obsessed. I think it was good for a little child to have a Joe DiMaggio or a Babe Ruth as a hero. We don’t need to knwo that the Babe was a chronic woman chaser/ boozer
OTOH, it’s good to have politicians in the light. I WANT to know who they associate with. I WANT to know who’s contributing BIG dollars to them
You reminded me of a current commercial character that’s a retro throwback. The guy’s name is “Happy Peter” or something like that and he is the spokesman for some dysfunction medication. That guy could be right out of the 50’s.
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Crimsonfisted Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:25:59pm |
re: #65 DEZes
Geritol is still made, get in the way to it in Wal-Mart… be very afraid.
You just KNOW I am going to look! (and might buy, who knows?)
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:26:15pm |
Nobody’s posting.
The guys must be watching that blonde in the tub.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:26:26pm |
re: #78 Crimsonfisted
Minnie Pearl. Now. Not then. The voices in my head tell me that yes, you can still be a Hew Haw girl. Or one of Dean Martin’s Gold Diggers.
I danced with a Gold Digger once. She was 30 years older than me and still sexy.
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TedStriker Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:26:51pm |
re: #80 Pianobuff
You reminded me of a current commercial character that’s a retro throwback. The guy’s name is “Happy Peter” or something like that and he is the spokesman for some dysfunction medication. That guy could be right out of the 50’s.
“Smilin’ Bob” from the Enzyte commercials…
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Jimmah Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:27:13pm |
Looks like the cliche family got a job in the Fallout 3 trailer:
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DEZes Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:27:15pm |
re: #81 Crimsonfisted
You just KNOW I am going to look! (and might buy, who knows?)
Beware the walkers. ;)
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sattv4u2 Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:28:17pm |
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Pianobuff Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:28:23pm |
re: #84 talon_262
“Smilin’ Bob” from the Enzyte commercials…
Dang you’re right that’s it, although ‘Happy Peter’ is probably what’s making Bob smile.
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Crimsonfisted Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:29:46pm |
re: #83 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I danced with a Gold Digger once. She was 30 years older than me and still sexy.
Sigh. I wish I could say the same, still sexy. I was once a Keno runner (you had to have a body to do that) in Reno, oh so many years ago.
Landed a man, and followed the “Sam Kinison Projection - 10 pounds for each year! (sorta)
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pat Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:30:00pm |
Speaking of TV commercials, are any of you familiar with this story? Swedish TV viewers are terrified by a cosmetic ad.
[Link: www.thelocal.se…]
no kidding. ad at site.
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Crimsonfisted Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:30:42pm |
re: #91 pat
Speaking of TV commercials, are any of you familiar with this story? Swedish TV viewers are terrified by a cosmetic ad.
[Link: www.thelocal.se…]
no kidding. ad at site.
Creepy, but not bad.
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TedStriker Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:30:42pm |
re: #88 Pianobuff
Dang you’re right that’s it, although ‘Happy Peter’ is probably what’s making Bob smile.
The little short-haired brunette from the “Smilin’ Bob as Santa at the office Christmas party” Enzyte commercial is a cute little minx, IMO…
;-P
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:31:17pm |
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DEZes Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:31:19pm |
re: #87 sattv4u2
Hell , Wal Mart even PROVIDES them !
I never see the elderly use the scooters, just the morbidly lazy.
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esch Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:33:44pm |
re: #91 pat
It’s the lighting and the wind. Put together it makes her look kind of like the Ring girl. She is sexy, but yeah it’s creepy all right.
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Silvergirl Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:34:15pm |
re: #72 Pianobuff
The good ole days, before teh Internets, TIVO, cel phones, and texting.
Back when commercials like this were legal…
More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette
[Video]
Even Father Knows Best was sponsored by Kent. Robert Young walked in the door and took a big drag before embracing Jane Wyatt. They’d stand there smiling while the smoke circled their heads and the kids were giggling over on the stairs.
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soxfan4life Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:36:01pm |
re: #95 DEZes
I never see the elderly use the scooters, just the morbidly lazy.
For anyone else it is like giving up some independence. Not easily done.
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pat Sun, Aug 9, 2009 6:36:47pm |
re: #96 esch
Hey! Don’t smear the Ring girl. She kicks ass. The scene where she outruns the Ringwraiths could have gone on for 2 minutes more.
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mfarmer1 Sun, Aug 9, 2009 7:34:44pm |
Charles, you’re setting the mood for the third season of “Mad Men” starting August 14th. Thanks!
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padre Sun, Aug 9, 2009 8:59:12pm |
Charles, you’ve been punk’d
This audio is obviously not from the 1960s. Listen to 1:10 or so…
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freetoken Sun, Aug 9, 2009 9:32:31pm |
re: #102 padre
If you’re interested, the original version is available for download (and discussion) here:
[Link: www.archive.org…]
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Throbert McGee Mon, Aug 10, 2009 11:41:29am |
re: #38 Charles
“Sometimes Homer is unknowingly offensive.”
I was waiting for the BEEE-YOOOH foghorn, as heard in WB cartoons, but I guess that was from a slightly earlier era in American advertising.
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Throbert McGee Mon, Aug 10, 2009 11:42:49am |
P.S. Although I am a notorious homersexual, I certainly like to think that I’m not a Homer Cliche…
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nenamldu Wed, Aug 12, 2009 12:49:56pm |
I’m fairly certain that the unidentified individual playing the lead here is none other than Roger Price, famous as the creator of those clever “Droodles”, something along the lines of “guess my caption” drawings. Price, I confess to being old enough to remember, had a “Droodles” TV quiz program in the 1950’s, too. I seem to remember he was enough of a polymath (author, performer, producer, etc.) to have had no problem ever coming up with a gentle satire of American life like this one (too bad he’s not credited.) Long-term, America wanted raunch like Lenny Bruce’s and his ilk, not highbrow humour like Roger Price’s or Jack Paar’s. See Image: File:Pricedroodles.jpg for the cover of one of Roger Price’s LP albums with a photo of him that resembles this actor to a T.
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