The boss’s name is Mr. Bemis. I wonder if he’s any relation to Henry Bemis, the fellow in episode 8 of The Twilight Zone — “Time Enough at Last” — in 1959?
The day Bill told off his boss
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It’s fun to be fooled, but it’s more fun to fool others.
Fun • Magic • Mystery
It’s Fun to be fooled — but it’s More Fun to fool others
Multiplying Billiard Balls
Loaded Cigars
St. Peter’s Lesson
The Floating-Dancing Handkerchief
Nickels Change to Dimes!
Amazing Finger Chopper Trick
Secret Wonder Mirror
Vanishing Key Mystery
Lit Cigarette Vanishes and then reappears!
Send all orders to The House of a Thousand Mysteries
Dept. AC5-61
Trumbull, Conn.
Beat Down the Flames
I have a theory about this ad. When the rangers arrive, they find the Lee family has perished after their cotton clothing caught fire. Two of the last three panels show the forest in pristine pre-fire condition, which indicates that the Lee family is in the afterlife and blissfuly unaware of their horrific deaths.
Continue readingYou had me at “Modern Trampoline Construction”
I’m guessing the primary purpose of this device was to make it easier for bullies to determine who to kick the crap out of.
Continue readingYou are under the spell of Ka•Bala!
Did you know that in 2016, Bass Pro Shops acquired Ka•Bala for $5,500,000,000?
Wait… I’m being told that was Cabela’s, not Ka•Bala.
Well, did you know that Madonna became involved with Ka•Bala way back in 1998?
Wait… Now I’m being told that was Kabbalah, not Ka•Bala.
Well then, what the heck is this thing!?
Oh, just some proprietary blend of tarot, spin-the-bottle, magic 8-ball and ouija board, I guess.
Continue readingThey’re jolly! They’re jumping! They’re… spurge seed pods infested with moth larvae!
Now, what’s more colorful than colors?
I can’t hear ya! I say what’s, what’s more colorful than Mexicolors?
Alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright!
Continue readingCoca-Cola 1906 – Victorians sure talked purdy.
Fun fact: Just three years before this 1906 ad from Massengale Advertising ran, cocaine was removed from the Coca-Cola formula.
“lickin’ and larnin’”
Abraham Lincoln
his hand and pen.
he will be good but
god knows When
Historical note: The poem in the ad is a Lincoln original written in his math book when he was in his teens. Would you like to know more?
A bit of Inkograph history can be found here.
(I’m assuming that the “lickin’” has something to do with old-timey writing instruments to get the ink flowing, but I could be wrong. Also, I’m trying to keep things clean.)
Continue readingIt’s not the meat, it’s the motion.
And that’s why Bob in Accounting is no longer allowed to write advertising copy.
As I trudged through this rambling, convoluted bit of century-old writing, I started to hear it in the voice of Mojo Jojo (Roger L. Jackson) from The Powerpuff Girls and it suddenly became much, much better.
Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company ad found on the back cover of a 1917 Life magazine.
It still doesn’t explain the blacksmith though.
“Umm… Excuse me, but why am I even in this ad?”