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Creepy Old Ads

By Brian Shrader

Published: 2007-07-31 08:22:00
Updated: 2007-08-01 11:36:43

Posted: July 31, 2007
Updated: August 1, 2007

What kinds of twisted minds would produce images of a shaving baby, an anthropomorphized carrot (complete with monocle) and a pig slicing itself to make sausage?

Why, the minds of advertising executives, of course! 

UPDATE: Here's a super-creepy ad for McDonald's in India. It is at once frightening and repulsive.

 

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Along the same lines, I suggest visiting James Lileks' blog: (http://lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html) and his pictures of weird old cookbooks.

The man is a comic genius. I can credit many laugh-induced headaches to his commentary.
Click to view my profile Brian Shrader
August 1, 2007 9:13 a.m.
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We're still keeping up. Saw one last night for skittles, a MAN is hooked up to milking machine with another guy complaining that the milk was sour due to the sour candy the first guy was eating. eeewwwwww!
Click to view my profile thefensk
August 1, 2007 8:51 a.m.
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the pig is definitely the nastiest one! I like seeing old ads... Thanks Brian.
Click to view my profile North Carolina Native
August 1, 2007 7:22 a.m.
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The funniest commercial in history.

I have a copy of it at:

http://www.pageplanet.com/dutch.mov

It has some bad language, but it is an abaolute riot.
Click to view my profile Steve Crisp
July 31, 2007 11:20 p.m.
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This Scott Tissue ad from the 1950's 'red scare' days is my all-time favorite creepy old ad. Kinda gives a new meaning to "Communist movement".

http://www.georgetownbookshop.com/georgetown/bathroomv.jpg
Click to view my profile Smorgas_Of_Borg
July 31, 2007 9:05 p.m.
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They're not as scary as this ad ... http://virb.com/jasondukes/videos/2745
Drifter
July 31, 2007 6:20 p.m.
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the quinozo commmericals...the guy suckling the wolf...sick sick sick
strolling bones
July 31, 2007 5:16 p.m.
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I love them all, but I think the freakish carrot is my favorite.
Click to view my profile Brian Shrader
July 31, 2007 4:01 p.m.
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My late mother-in-law collected cookbooks and we continue the collection. Came across an oddball item the other day, a product brochure/cookbook for Knox Gelatin from the 1930s. Pretty standard stuff and then I saw their logo: a smiling young bovine face! I guess they later decided that people didn't want to remember where gelatin came from.
Click to view my profile thefensk
July 31, 2007 1:47 p.m.
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Some creepy ones for sure. But I have to say the one that was the most disturbing is the one advertising Lysol as a feminine hygiene product. Yikes!
RaleighRob
July 31, 2007 11:10 a.m.
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