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"Hey Mom! Can you spray my oatmeal with some more of that dee-licious DDT?" "Sure, Sweetie! Say when!" [spritz spritz spritz spritz...] — “Hey Mom! Can you spray my oatmeal with some more of that dee-licious DDT?” “Sure, Sweetie! Say when!” [spritz spritz spritz spritz…]

Du Pont (DuPont) magazine ad for DDT and other happy fun chemicals — Found in the April 1947 issue of Better Homes and Gardens.

Fun facts:

DDT stands for dichloro-diphenyl-trichloro-ethane (also Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane). And now you know why they called it DDT instead.

In 1955 alone, 500 million pounds of DTT was produced.

Some houseflies turned out to be resistant to DDT.

DDT got a dude a Nobel Prize.

And then there’s the whole thing about DDT and raptors and shell thinning and OMG they’re still fighting about that so I’m not going to link to anything about it.

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Midcentury magazine ad for National Accounting Machines / National Cash Register Company. Yes, I forgot to write down the year again. — Midcentury magazine ad for National Accounting Machines / National Cash Register Company.
Yes, I forgot to write down the year again.

I think the most precious bit in the body copy is “…what machines do automatically, operators cannot do wrong.” LOL.

What happens when you ask your company to get you an expanded keyboard.

“Is Gern Blanston there? This is? Bitch, where’s my money?”

Fun facts: The first mechanical cash register was named “Ritty’s Incorruptible Cashier”. The year was 1879. The reason? Skimming bartenders.

If you ever saw “No Sale” pop up on an old cash register, it means the till drawer was opened without a transaction taking place.

National Cash Register is now known as NCR and was once part of AT&T.

Some White Motor history at the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. It’s not every day that a company makes the switch from sewing machines to trucks.

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Come for the gimcracks. Stay for the SPUG.

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Big, Juicy Chunks

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Sensuous as the beat of the tom-tom

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“Show me your bubbies!”

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ZWEE THONK

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You down with DDT?

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“Oh, drat. I forgot the ashtray upstairs.”

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When a problem comes along, you must blanket.

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Adventures in Accounting

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Is that a dentifrice on your toothbrush or are you just happy to see me?

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Sharing makes you cool and everyone will love you.

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Sharing makes you cool and everyone will love you.

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Sharing makes you cool and everyone will love you.

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Sharing makes you cool and everyone will love you.

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Sharing makes you cool and everyone will love you.

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Sharing makes you cool and everyone will love you.

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Sharing makes you cool and everyone will love you.

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Sharing makes you cool and everyone will love you.

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Sharing makes you cool and everyone will love you.

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Sharing makes you cool and everyone will love you.

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