Even if you leave room for the Holy Ghost. (1962)
u/dan_blather — 1 day ago
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Metallic-Tractors (1801, cartoon by Gillray)
Not farm machinery, but the latest quack medical fad in 1801. They were two small, magnetised metallic rods, invented by Elisha Perkins of Connecticut. He claimed that they could "draw out" illness by stroking them over the afflicted part of the patient's body.
u/Neuralclone2 — 1 day ago
If he was a real person, do you think Mr. Whipple would be on a database somewhere? 1976
Innocent until proven guilty of course and never judge a book by its cover, but back in the 1970’s if I see Mr Whipple squeezing the Charmin while I am walking in my local Pathmark headed towards the Bosco, i’m going the other way
u/AgainforthrFirstTime — 4 days ago
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Spot Crooks by Their Ears. 1932 Popular Science Magazine
u/Ebonystealth — 5 days ago
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Left-foot gas pedal. Easy installation (“with just a wrench—no alterations”),
u/Ebonystealth — 5 days ago
A wife can blame herself if she loses love by getting “middle-age” skin! Palmolive [1930s]
u/Ebonystealth — 7 days ago
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"Authorities" in the 1900s predicted women will be over 6' and dress like Zena Warrior Princess by the year 2000.
u/NaturalSun993 — 8 days ago
"Show her it's a man's world" - Van Heusen ties, 1951
This one goes for the ones that say "advertising is not propaganda because it doesn't promote an ideology", see also the second slide
u/OmniversosIlimitados — 9 days ago
What do his answers tell you about his personality? [Christian Brando]
u/Useful_Culture_3082 — 10 days ago
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Burnt orange carpeting in a supermarket, 1970s.
u/Comprehensive58 — 9 days ago
1991: Bernie Sanders delivers a speech to an empty U.S congress advising against military intervention in the Gulf War
u/Reasonablw893 — 12 days ago