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On the one hand I can’t believe I’m helping to spread this stuff around. On the other, maybe it shows we’re evolving just a little bit. On yet another, I think some of them have to be modern spoofs. On yet another hand, maybe I’m evolving into a Hindu deity – 4 arms and counting!

http://owni.eu/2010/11/08/top-48-ads-that-would-never-be-allowed-today/
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jsgilbert · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:53 am Post subject:

I particularly like Santa pushing cigarettes. In my dating days, (long ago) it seemed like I frequently would meet my "girlfriend at the time's" parents at Christmas. Interestingly, they would almost always present me with the same gift, a lovely carton of Marlboros all wrapped up and usually sporting a lovely bow. My gift to them was almost always a bottle of Chivas.

I'm glad I'm not dating now, particularly since I no longer smoke or drink.

I'm guessing cigarette gift giving, even beyonnd prison walls, probably still goes over in many parts of the country, just as I am sure more than a few people wouldn't look askance at most of these ads.

C'mon gals, any of you up for a nice Tiparillo?
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asnively · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:09 pm Post subject:

There used to be a pill that helped you cook breakfast?
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Donna · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 1:18 pm Post subject:

Yes, Amy, but you had to be pregnant at the same time!
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asnively · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 1:22 pm Post subject:

Not worth it.
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jsgilbert · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 2:26 pm Post subject:

I thought those pills dealt with the once a month hysteria that woman had to deal with.

The word hysteria is quite interesting:

In the Western world, until the seventeenth century, hysteria referred to a medical condition thought to be particular to women and caused by disturbances of the uterus (from the Greek ὑστέρα "hystera" = uterus). The origin of the term hysteria is commonly attributed to Hippocrates, even though the term isn't used in the writings that are collectively known as the Hippocratic corpus.[1] The Hippocratic corpus refer to a variety of illness symptoms, such as suffocation and Heracles' disease, that were supposedly caused by the movement of a woman's uterus to various locations within her body as it became light and dry due to a lack of bodily fluids.[1] One passage recommends pregnancy to cure such symptoms, ostensibly because intercourse will "moisten" the womb and facilitate blood circulation within the body.[1]

(taken from Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteria
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Lizden · Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:54 am Post subject:

I love that all the alcohol ads are French!
Yep, I really feel better when my train conductor is nice & sloshed on Ricard! Rolls Eyes

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todd ellis · Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 8:11 am Post subject:

well ... you CAN'T beat the axis with VD ... hard to argue that.
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ronharpervoice · Club 300 Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 347 Location: Ohio

Don't worry, you didn't burn the beer. LOLOLOLOL
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