Tag: advertising
Better without words
I have found that the K-marts of the 1970’s had it right. Christmas music needs to be in the BACKGROUND.
Throw your voice! Boys only!
Apparently only boys can learn to throw their voices. I think that has something to do with girls not having an adam’s apple. This must…
Follow all instructions
It always amazes me what people will eat or drink. Remember when some idiots watching YouTube were eating TIDE PODS? Anyway… I don’t care how…
Now all you need is some Hi Karate
Had to get this matchbook at a street sale, after embarrassing myself by letting a lecherous HEHEHEHE laugh escape while reading the comic. Very curious…
How to Marl your boro
I bought something from someone in the Netherlands, and they helpfully included this instruction manual. Apparently the process of opening a pack of cigs has…
Bring it back! #112719
Seems like every day I find that something is better the way it used to be. Case in point, Ipana squeeze bottle toothpaste. Toothpaste tubes…
Santa is in a minefield
I never know what to get my wife for Christmas. They are pushing those fancy Pelotin exercise bikes on TV as a gift, with some…
Grandma’s soap saver
I was listening to the Larry Miller podcast, he was going on about saving soap slivers in the shower, somehow mushing them together to form…
Wait until the other shoe drops
These “Ripple” shoes probably were fun and different to wear, and maybe changed a person’s gait in a positive way. Years later, say 1970 something,…
Missed opportunity
Consider the case of C. B. Moore, Optometrist. WHY did he not take the GOLDEN opportunity to hang out his shingle as C MOORE OPTOMETRIST…
