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Sun Dec-26-10 08:48 PM
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48 ads that would never be allowed today |
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Sun Dec-26-10 09:00 PM
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1. I remember most of the smoking ones and "women" ones. Some are quite something. |
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Sun Dec-26-10 09:01 PM
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2. I remember the cigarette commercials especially. |
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Sun Dec-26-10 09:21 PM
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3. I thought the "didn't burn the beer" was funny |
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And I LOVE the smell of good pipe tobacco even though smoke makes me sick. :)
Some really awful stuff there though...
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Sun Dec-26-10 09:29 PM
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4. the last one of the family with rifles..... |
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...it's Palins, isn't it!
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Sun Dec-26-10 09:49 PM
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5. What's wrong with the women cooking sausages? And the woman scrubbing the floor |
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seems pretty innocuous too (I guess the problem there is that cleaning ads are never/rarely aimed at men?).
What strikes me as funny about these lists is how many of today's ads would never have been allowed in decades past - I bet a far higher proportion of modern ads would be unacceptable in the past than the other way around...
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Sun Dec-26-10 10:26 PM
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6. I remember being really grossed out by a Santa smoking one as a kid |
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It may have been the same one as in the article -- I'm not sure. But it seemed terribly, terribly wrong to me even when I was 15 or so.
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Mon Dec-27-10 12:12 AM
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Mon Dec-27-10 12:15 AM
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8. Beware a few may be recent photoshops. The one that makes my hair stand on end- douching with lysol. |
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Edited on Mon Dec-27-10 12:15 AM by KittyWampus
I didn't catch it on that page but occasionally someone posts it.
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Mon Dec-27-10 12:24 AM
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9. A few of these could still be run actually |
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The Tipalet one I can actually see still running. I mean, half the booze ads in magazines these daysare worse and not even half as funny. And the WWII VD ad is amazing, don't care what anyone thinks. And the promotional literature you see with the army lit or in school sex ed stuff just changes up the slang really.
Mind you most of them or so ridiculously over the top, I can't even believe they ran even back then. Really Van Heusen? Wow. Just wow. Sexist, racist, and in poor taste. Wow. Makes me glad I already don't buy their products.
I will admit I laughed at the cellophane one. But by all that is holy, that couldn't have even sounded like a good idea back then. Marketer fail.
The Volkswagen one would still work if you substituted "teen" for "wife". Take your own implications away from that.
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Mon Dec-27-10 12:30 AM
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10. I'm not so sure the French one about beer is wrong. |
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One beer a day isn't unhealthy.
(Unless you have alcoholism, of course. Then again, albinos can't go to the beach.)
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