Decades ago when this ad came out, I wonder how many people bought this who didn’t get the joke, only to have someone who did get in their car and start laughing their ass off? How many people seeing it now don’t get it?
Here’s a guy who’s collected a lot of the ads from comic books.
For modern day goofyness, there’s nothing like good ol’ Archie McPhee.
And who doesn’t want a pair of their remote controlled, hopping, yodeling, lederhosen.
Man, can those pants sing!
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I remember my amazing sea monkeys.
They lasted a week *sigh*
Man, them’s good eatin’.
This place is in Seattle! if you’re in Seattle go there..
There is this story from the earlier 1900s about a man in Finland who put an ad in Swedish papers for “the ultimate way of killing lice”. All you had to do was to wire 50 SEK to his company’s account and then the package would arrive on mail. And what did you find inside it? Two equally sized pieces of wood and the description: “put the lice on top of one of the wood-pieces and then slam the other at it”…
Now that’s a way of making business!
So many memories… good thing it was my parents money and not much money at that.
The Johnson Smith Company is still around too. I remember reading comics in the 70’s and seeing their ads in almost all of them.
http://www.johnsonsmith.com/
I always wanted some of them there those X-Ray Specs. Damn, I’m forgetting how many decades ago that was.
Hey Fusion, I bought a set of those X-ray specs. All they did was create a fuzzy image of what you were looking at so if you held your hand up, it faintly looked like you were seeing the bones. Boy was I pissed. I thought for sure I would be able to see through girls dresses. I was around 11 y.o. at the time.
Sheesh, that doesn’t even look like a mink — it looks like a muppet we called the ‘Bearded Clam’… OH, I get it now! 🙂
My brother got the X-Ray Specs, too. Being 4 years younger, I still knew he was getting robbed somehow. He was disappointed as all get-out. After that, he was on pretty much every mailing list in the known universe for the rest of his life. You should have seen some of the catalogs my parents had to throw away…
Nowadays, if you ordered the X-Ray Specs, you would probably have to be submitted to a government database of potential sex offenders.
#8, Hopper,
Ya, I know, but all the same, it sounded like such a great idea. I remember one ad where they would show a silhouette of a woman outlined in a dress. Geeze, to an 11 yr old that is a pretty strong sales pitch.
#9, Beaver,
Ya, I just hate it when some acronym government agent comes asking questions. I wonder if I could explain that I want to inspect cargo containers?
9. “Nowadays, if you ordered the X-Ray Specs, you would probably have to be submitted to a government database of potential sex offenders.”
lol.
lol great ad