You're correct, I honestly don't think it was meant to be funny, but those ads from the 1920's - 1930's place a home/marriage's total happiness on whether the wife was doing all her chores: preparing proper meals for her husband, keeping the floors polished and keeping the drains cleaned out! LOL!
I think this was so even up to the 70s. I remember ads for Wisk where the husband would frown at his wife because he had "ring around the collar". The woman would be in agony in frame after frame as she tried to rid his shirts of ring around the collar.
I also remember an ad for Pringles where the guy stomps off in a huff because the potato chips are stale. See, if the husband wads up the bag and throws it up in there in the pantry, it's the wife's job to go back and close it properly.
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Date: 2009-09-20 05:26 am (UTC)He had it coming,
He only had himself to blame.
If you had been there,
If you had seen it,
I bet you you would have done the same.
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Date: 2009-09-20 02:13 pm (UTC)I also remember an ad for Pringles where the guy stomps off in a huff because the potato chips are stale. See, if the husband wads up the bag and throws it up in there in the pantry, it's the wife's job to go back and close it properly.
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