Found in the October 1969 issue of Golf Digest.
A Brief History of the Talon Zipper Company
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“slayer of whirring mallard and lumbering goose”
Found on the back cover of Forest and Stream magazine, March 1921.
The Story of Evinrude Outboard Motors
Hey, do you remember the name of the dragonfly in Disney’s The Rescuers?
“You feel sour, sunk and the world looks punk.”
From 1942 or so. Found on the back of a newspaper clipping.
So what exactly was in Carter’s Little Liver Pills? A laxative.
I guess not having calomel was a good thing since it often caused mercury poisoning.
Continue readingDestruction is never fashionable.
I know the retail world is rather volatile these days, but I’d still like to see the creative brief/strategy that led to Kohl’s new tagline.
Oh, the Trumanity!
Some business trade writers are objective and let the readers form their own opinions from the provided information, and then there was Truman A. De Weese.
Excerpted from an article in System – The Magazine of Business, July 1907.
1906? We can probably blame the opium.
Found on the back cover of the June 1906 issue of The American Thresherman.
Product Not To Scale
The ad copy:
It Fills the Bill
J.L. Case Threshing Machine Co.
Racine, Wis.
USA
“That’s hot.”
“That’s hot.” — Paris Hilton, forgetting to use her oven mitts again
A fine piece of Gossage.
— a 60s-era Fina petrol ad written by Howard Luck Gossage
“If you’re driving down the road and you see a Fina station and it’s on your side so you don’t have to make a U-turn through traffic and there aren’t six cars waiting and you need gas or something please stop in.”
Fly Ball
If you pop a dot on the Major League Baseball (MLB) logo, it looks like a bird with arms.
Logo created (without the dot) by American Graphic Designer Jerry Dior in 1968.
Sing us a song, you’re the honky tonk harpsichord man.
1974 magazine ad for Cordovox Electronic Pianos
“Suspiciously similar to the Selmer-Armon in having sliders for the 3 equally dismal sounds.”
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