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A Classic Horrible Racist and Sexist Ad From the 80s: Mr. Microphone

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Higgs Boson's Mate5/18/2015 8:52:10 am PDT

re: #346 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I ignored it for a while, then started watching it out of boredom. It is fascinating as it starts in the year that I did: 1959, and I recall a lot of the details and events that it portrays.

Those days are not sepia toned for me. In 1959 I was 11 years old and I’d already read Vance Packard’s The Hidden Persuaders. Antipathy was about all I felt towards ad agency people back then. The passing years have tempered my feelings to mild dislike.