Vintage Advertisement - political correctness not really given

[Apostate]

Norman Rockwell painted a whole series of wholesome white kids with really punchable faces plugging Crest™.

Mad Magazine quickly picked up on the punchable part. I saw said parody when it first came out, and never noticed the parody product has a rather lunatic logic to it.

 

[Apostate]

I don't read Russian, so I don't know if this one is saying the cigarettes are healthy or not. I did smoke a Russian cigarette back in the 80s...
....being shot out of a cannon might have been better.
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"Nowhere but at Mosselprom" is a sales slogan that rhymes in Russian, no surprise since one of their greatest poets wrote it.

I heard about Mosselprom back in the Carter administration as a 1920’s era department store with really neat building. About 20 years ago it was restored to its Soviet Constructivist-style paintjob.

YEAST

CIGARETTES

BEER AND WATER

NIGDYE KROMYE KAK V MOSSELPROME!

 

[connoisseurs]

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

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Four intelligent, thoughtful men, all agreeing on what should be obvious.

 

[Apostate]

Four intelligent, thoughtful men, all agreeing on what should be obvious.

But consider this—every single one of those men is dead.

Coincidence?

 

[Eulalia]

Norman Rockwell painted a whole series of wholesome white kids with really punchable faces plugging Crest™.

Mad Magazine quickly picked up on the punchable part. I saw said parody when it first came out, and never noticed the parody product has a rather lunatic logic to it.

Many counter-cultural hints in it - Proctor & Rumble, the artist Norman Rocknroll, guaranteed by Good Housewrecking ...

 

[Apostate]

Many counter-cultural hints in it - Proctor & Rumble, the artist Norman Rocknroll, guaranteed by Good Housewrecking ...

Pre- or perhaps proto-countercultural, Eulalia. The ad campaign and the Mad parody date back to 1958.

 

[Barbaria1]

Many counter-cultural hints in it - Proctor & Rumble, the artist Norman Rocknroll, guaranteed by Good Housewrecking ...

Pre- or perhaps proto-countercultural, Eulalia. The ad campaign and the Mad parody date back to 1958.

So much good satire ... my dad had a stack of old Mad Magazines going way back that I devoured growing up

 

[Apostate]

So much good satire ... my dad had a stack of old Mad Magazines going way back that I devoured growing up

And thus your cultural literacy is complete, Barbaria. Follow in your father's footsteps, and pass down this wisdom to generations yet unborn . . .

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

So much good satire ... my dad had a stack of old Mad Magazines going way back that I devoured growing up

This explains so many concerns I had!

 

[Barbaria1]

This explains so many concerns I had!

Not really sure how to take that remark

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

Not really sure how to take that remark

 

[Apostate]

Way back when Orson Welles was still alive National Lampoon ran a satire about Mad, which was pretty excessively unfair.

The reader will note which magazine is still published.

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

Be careful out there!

 

[Apostate]

I first saw that girl-next-door from central casting back in high school in a book on WWII. She and her more sinister looking sisters fought a fairly successful battle against "VD."

I suspect that stern looking C.O. type wasn’t as successful.

 

[Apostate]

Then there was this 1969 PDA, I believe the first one of its kind to run on TV.

For some reason the ballerina and the baby stuck in my memory.

 

[Eulalia]

I first saw that girl-next-door from central casting back in high school in a book on WWII. She and her more sinister looking sisters fought a fairly successful battle against "VD."

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So you learnt that you might pick up something nasty from her boobs?

 

[Naraku]

Four intelligent, thoughtful men, all agreeing on what should be obvious.

But consider this—every single one of those men is dead.

Coincidence?

Every single one of them is from Brooklyn.
Coincidence?

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

Another piece of valuable advice to you wives out there.

 

[Loxuru]

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Four intelligent, thoughtful men, all agreeing on what should be obvious.

Every single one of them is from Brooklyn.
Coincidence?

Another piece of valuable advice to you wives out there.

These kind of adds make me wonder in what kind of harsh pecking order these men had to perform in society and how a lot of the mental burden of it ultimately fell on the shoulders (and on the bottom) of their wives.
Has this changed today, anyway?