Brian sent an email full of funny old ads. I’d seen a lot of them but had to laugh and shake my head all over again. Gun-loving, cigarette-puffing sexists learned how to nourish infants with soda pop and tame their adoring women.
Advertising is always bullshit. Today’s stuff will look just as ridiculous with the perspective of time. My favourites are the saccharine offerings of eco-saintly oil companies and beneficent, loving governments.
BTW, in my days in the B.S. mills, the Government of Canada was far and away the biggest spender on advertising… bigger than any of the largest corporations. I don’t imagine this has changed.
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Watching Madmen series about the 60’s in advertising back then it’s amazing how we used to live then & what we used to get away with.
True, Merrill. I didn’t stumble into advertising until the mid-70s, so after the Mad Men era. The old guys were fond of telling us noobies that we’d missed the Golden Age of bad behaviour. Still, we did our best (worst?) and that was bad enough.