Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Awesome Vintage Advertisements: Enjoy!



“My, my, Susan, but you sure can thread a needle like a pro!”

“Why thank you, Donna. You should see me handle a ninja throwing star.”

“What was that?”

“Nothing.”






Allow us to present this famous complexion authority. A baby holding a stuffed bunny. That’s right. Trust all your skin needs to this baby holding a stuffed bunny and you’ll never go wrong.






Yes, I feel exactly the same way about my vacuum cleaner as I do about the military man I’m pining away for. Forget the diamond, sweetie. When you come back from the war let’s celebrate by getting me that beautiful, big, sparkly Premier Vacuum I’ve always wanted!








In order to use Colman’s Self-Rising Flour, you must first arm yourself with a large shield, robe yourself in flag finery, grab the nearest curly-haired bull. Oh, and don’t forget the centurion helmet.






In this ad Wesson claims that their product is...

PURE
Okay, good. Pure is good.

DELICIOUS
I like delicious things.

VEGETABLE
Great. I need to eat more vegetables.

FAT
Wait, what?






“Everyone’s Choice”… particularly if you are a musketeer. Or a pirate. Or Inigo Montoya.

7 comments:

Eric said...

And if she's been a real doll, I'll get her a matching automatic marble buffer.

obladi oblada said...

UR BACK!

Um..I think the Wesson Oil people need to check their spelling...it was meant to be PHAT, not fat.

"My name is Ignio Montoya...prepare die".

Lidian said...

Oh, Heather, I missed your fab commentary on fab old ads! :)

Am going to go RT this immediately...

brookeamanda said...

Yeah! I love the vintage ads!

Anonymous said...

"In order to use Colman’s Self-Rising Flour, you must first arm yourself with a large shield, robe yourself in flag finery, grab the nearest curly-haired bull. Oh, and don’t forget the centurion helmet."..Make fun if ya want...but baked good were a whole lot better in them days. I'm just sayin' is all.

Leeuna said...

The shield and helment is to guard against those flying rock hard homemede biscuits. ;) Love these vintage ads

Anonymous said...

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You keeled my foamy beer head. Prepare to die."