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Showing Original Post only (View all)Vintage Ads that are bizarre, weird and wrong. Some almost laughably so (a little pic heavy) [View all]
Uhhhh... yeah. Sugary carbonated beverage regimentThis is just weird and wrong
And, speaking of weird. Though this is laughably so.
Here you are Jenny, for your bridal shower, a meat thermometer
Aren't all bridal showers about the husband to be?
For children who want only the classiest of cigars
This child is getting his hands on his inheritance as early as possible
Santa keeping his "Ho Ho Ho"s loud and jolly. No throat scratch for him.
Maybe throat cancer
I know you're happy to find out that more doctors smoke Camels
Even dentist recommend cigarettes; though they smoke Viceroys
If you're pregnant, don't hold back: Nico Time for you
Saving the best for last
A barbituate that has, what appears to be a ghost boy for it's marketing
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Vintage Ads that are bizarre, weird and wrong. Some almost laughably so (a little pic heavy) [View all]
rpannier
Sep 2019
OP
I bought on just like that 3 or 4 years ago. Works great. They still make them. nt.
madinmaryland
Sep 2019
#35
Probably was distributed to doctors. My brother was on phenobarb for seizures.
LeftInTX
Sep 2019
#24
Pretty sure the first one is a joke. The children's cigar one might be, too. The others are real. nt
tblue37
Sep 2019
#2
Oh, I remember the cig ads.(I'm old.) But the emphasis on sugar in the first one
tblue37
Sep 2019
#7
Thanks. For everyone else, the detailed explanation of how this joke as came to be is
tblue37
Sep 2019
#19
The first one IS a hoax (joke, actually). The Nico Time one is fanfiction.
Dave Starsky
Sep 2019
#15
I have NatGeos dating back to 1928 and the ads are amazing, not necessarily in a good way. For
in2herbs
Sep 2019
#20