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The 15 Creepiest Vintage Ads Of All Time
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JonBenét Ramsey, eat your heart out. (Too soon?) This ad makes us want to scream, gouge out our eyes and then barf.
JonBenét Ramsey, eat your heart out. (Too soon?) This ad makes us want to scream, gouge out our eyes and then barf.
Finally the last one...
1. Chocolate Poulain
Drink that cocoa, or this clown will murder you in your sleep.
1. Chocolate Poulain
Drink that cocoa, or this clown will murder you in your sleep.
scott55405
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Thomas I'm glad you were able to transfer the ads over here. A postage meter is used in businesses (at least here in the states) as a method of applying postage to outgoing mail and packages. You take it to the post office (maybe you can do it online now) and have a set amount of postage placed in it, set the date and you're good to go until your funds need replenishing. Unlike the one in the picture, most today are electric, and have integrated scales that give the amount of postage needed for an item. There's also usually an automated conveyor for processing multiples.
Scott
Thanks for the information. I think we never used this kind of machine here in Brazil. (or maybe i never knew about it because I grew up used to the telex and then the fax machine at my father's hotel and tour agency.) We almost never used regular mail.
By the way, please check you yahoo messenger.
Thanks for the information. I think we never used this kind of machine here in Brazil. (or maybe i never knew about it because I grew up used to the telex and then the fax machine at my father's hotel and tour agency.) We almost never used regular mail.
By the way, please check you yahoo messenger.
you're welcome...
Thomas: you've seen the postage meters a lot. Pitney-Bowes sells the same machines to the Brazilian Post Offices. It's just that in Brazil, the post office is too paranoid to let most business use it.
Anyway, it's the little machine that you dial the price for postage (say, "$1.50"), stick the envelope or a piece of self-adhesive tape in and it stamps the price paid and some kind of graphic design, usually in fluorescent red ink.
Here's one site with pictures and history of the devices.
Anyway, it's the little machine that you dial the price for postage (say, "$1.50"), stick the envelope or a piece of self-adhesive tape in and it stamps the price paid and some kind of graphic design, usually in fluorescent red ink.
Here's one site with pictures and history of the devices.
Huuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Now i realized what machine is that.
In Brazil it's called "franqueadora" (franchiser in english)
But I've never seen small machines like the creepy ad above.
The machines I know are big and has a compartment that the attendant place the envelopes and the quickly go from one side to the other and fall on a metal rack that looks like a trash bin.
I thought only the post offices could use it, not companies. And the last time I've seen one was more than 30 years ago
Anyway, at least here in Iguasu they are not used anymore because in Brazil we have a wide range of stamps.
Last time I went to the post office was in february with John Buscemi (Jbuscemi) and i didn't see that machine,but I remember clearly two attendants on the back weighting a huge pile of envelopes one by one and patching stamps.
at least now the stamps are self adesive (we don't need to lick them anymore) otherwise they would be without the tongue by the end of the day.
Now i realized what machine is that.
In Brazil it's called "franqueadora" (franchiser in english)
But I've never seen small machines like the creepy ad above.
The machines I know are big and has a compartment that the attendant place the envelopes and the quickly go from one side to the other and fall on a metal rack that looks like a trash bin.
I thought only the post offices could use it, not companies. And the last time I've seen one was more than 30 years ago
Anyway, at least here in Iguasu they are not used anymore because in Brazil we have a wide range of stamps.
Last time I went to the post office was in february with John Buscemi (Jbuscemi) and i didn't see that machine,but I remember clearly two attendants on the back weighting a huge pile of envelopes one by one and patching stamps.
at least now the stamps are self adesive (we don't need to lick them anymore) otherwise they would be without the tongue by the end of the day.
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It it always illegal to kill a woman?
Why do I remember some juries in Brazil letting men (husbands?) get away with it in some circumstances?
The pig with the knife is disturbing. (Go see a moyel or a good doctor).
Why do I remember some juries in Brazil letting men (husbands?) get away with it in some circumstances?
The pig with the knife is disturbing. (Go see a moyel or a good doctor).
Becky Steinberg always looks forward to
her special dinner out with her gentile aunt and uncle.
jasonl
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It's good to have a girl around the house
LOL.
Just lol.
And it's for a feminine product at that.
LOL.
Just lol.
And it's for a feminine product at that.
everythingold
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It strikes me that people in the 50's were not prudes, like they are often depicted.
jasonl
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Prudes
That was just a front.
Perfect example: Glenn Quagmire LOL.
That was just a front.
Perfect example: Glenn Quagmire LOL.
Thomas: the one they show in the ad is probably for use in small offices. Large companies that send out mass mailings probably have the large machine you described.
Toggles: it varied according to time and place. Obviously, when the 12 "peers" were all men, long ago, it was easier for men to get away with it. More recently, when jurors are as random as one can get (the lawyers will, of course, try to tilt the balance to the gender they're defending), women have also gotten away with murder. "Crime of passion", as it was often described, tended to get the same leeway as self-defense... it's rather easy to convince the jurors that you got home, saw your loved one in bed with other people and killed one or more people because you couldn't think. Not something we've been proud of in our history, at least not enough to advertise it to tourists ("Come to our shores and kill your spouse!")...
Either way, that defense has been used in US as recently as the 50's, just take a look at the wikipedia article in the link below. And more recently, the sanitized version is called "Temporary Insanity".
Matt: I agree with Jason. All you have to do is look at the video that Toggles posted in the electric meters thread -- I really doubt that the kids came out with the choreography themselves, it's probably original to whatever movie/TV show the song originally appeared on in the 70's or so. And if you think that Marilyn Monroe's performance of "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" was too much for the 60's in "Let's Make Love", you'd probably be scandalized by Mary Martin's performance in "Night and Day" (1946), which was tame by the 60's. I just wonder how much of a scandal that song was when it appeared in the 30's.
Let's Make Love version (Marilyn Monroe):
Night and Day version (Mary Martin):
en.wikipedia.org
Toggles: it varied according to time and place. Obviously, when the 12 "peers" were all men, long ago, it was easier for men to get away with it. More recently, when jurors are as random as one can get (the lawyers will, of course, try to tilt the balance to the gender they're defending), women have also gotten away with murder. "Crime of passion", as it was often described, tended to get the same leeway as self-defense... it's rather easy to convince the jurors that you got home, saw your loved one in bed with other people and killed one or more people because you couldn't think. Not something we've been proud of in our history, at least not enough to advertise it to tourists ("Come to our shores and kill your spouse!")...
Either way, that defense has been used in US as recently as the 50's, just take a look at the wikipedia article in the link below. And more recently, the sanitized version is called "Temporary Insanity".Matt: I agree with Jason. All you have to do is look at the video that Toggles posted in the electric meters thread -- I really doubt that the kids came out with the choreography themselves, it's probably original to whatever movie/TV show the song originally appeared on in the 70's or so. And if you think that Marilyn Monroe's performance of "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" was too much for the 60's in "Let's Make Love", you'd probably be scandalized by Mary Martin's performance in "Night and Day" (1946), which was tame by the 60's. I just wonder how much of a scandal that song was when it appeared in the 30's.
Let's Make Love version (Marilyn Monroe):
Night and Day version (Mary Martin):
Crime of passion - Wikipedia
dirtybuck
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Someone should Photoshop that pic and add a set of fangs to that monstrous little tyke.
Someone should Photoshop that pic and add a set of fangs to that monstrous little tyke.
dirtybuck
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HUH?
I'm not quite sure I follow these odd Lysol ads. Were they TOTALLY whacked out and bothered by germs so much that people locked themselves in the bathroom or garage over them?
I'm totally surprised Joan Crawford didn't do one for them.
I'm not quite sure I follow these odd Lysol ads. Were they TOTALLY whacked out and bothered by germs so much that people locked themselves in the bathroom or garage over them?
I'm totally surprised Joan Crawford didn't do one for them.
danemodsandy
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Dirtybuck:
Lysol was pretty much part of the culture for a while there. 1950s women who used it for the purpose in the ad were taught to do that by their mothers, who'd learnt to do it twenty years before.
If anyone wonders why women were so fond of Lysol for this little job, it's very simple. Creosol, the active disinfectant ingredient in Lysol, is absolute death on motile sperm. That's right - birth control before there was legal birth control. Cheap and effective. Lehn and Fink, makers of Lysol, could not come right out and say any of this, but it was well-known to women of that time.
In a world where the Pill hadn't been invented yet, and condoms were illegal in many places, having Lysol on every grocers' shelf was probably a Godsend.
Lysol was pretty much part of the culture for a while there. 1950s women who used it for the purpose in the ad were taught to do that by their mothers, who'd learnt to do it twenty years before.
If anyone wonders why women were so fond of Lysol for this little job, it's very simple. Creosol, the active disinfectant ingredient in Lysol, is absolute death on motile sperm. That's right - birth control before there was legal birth control. Cheap and effective. Lehn and Fink, makers of Lysol, could not come right out and say any of this, but it was well-known to women of that time.
In a world where the Pill hadn't been invented yet, and condoms were illegal in many places, having Lysol on every grocers' shelf was probably a Godsend.
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