"winter" contest entry ...

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

from Wide Awake, April 1892 vol 34 #5, inside back cover

Comments

Yes!

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Don't be shy, Stephen F. Whitman & Son. Tell it like it is! Instantaneous chocolate is the greatest invention EVER!!!

Re: Yes!

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

yeah! forget sanitation, steam power, photography, the internal combustion engine, and electric light! INSTANT CHOCOLATE is the thing!

Re: Yes!

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Damn skippy! :D

Re: Yes!

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

Heck, not just instant, but INSTANTANEOUS! Instant chocolate just takes far too long to make.

Really. I think we all know that those other things were only invented so that we could more easily obtain and consume our instantaneous chocolate. Their importance pales in comparison.

Re: Yes!

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

now I'm wondering whether this is a reference to the liquid's average speed and trajectory at any given moment in its arc from serving pot to drinking cup?

[girlchild0aglow.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD THAT FONT. The one on the word 'chocolate'- why don't advertisers use such awesome fonts anymore? Just look at it. I feel like drinking their chocolate will make me just a little nobler and stronger.

[bzul.livejournal.com]

I'm a soooole man'f,
Bah-dahn-dah-dah,
Bah-dahn-dah-dahhh...

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

I'm already drinking hot (instant) chocolate, but that ad just makes me want to drink more, more, MORE.

This advertisement is a classic.

[theidolhands.livejournal.com]

I love this.

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

YES YES YES!

[cuddyclothes.livejournal.com]

Stephen F. Whitman & Son, I bow down before your awesomeness. Screw computers, CHOCOLATE IS GOD!

[meezergal.livejournal.com]

Of course chocolate is God. Didn't the Incas or the Mayans or some other South American tribe worship it?

YES

[meezergal.livejournal.com]

Great ad--that font makes ANYTHING seem important!!!

[mystical-chickn.livejournal.com]

Instant chocolate: Great invention or THE GREATEST INVENTION? /colbert

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

Is this the same Whitman's or Whitman's chocolates?

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

looks like it ...
http://www.russellstover.com/jump.jsp?itemType=CATEGORY&itemID=206

yes

[whoseline_wlsc]

I love how they call it "Instantaneous Chocolate." Everyone SHOULD have it! hehehe

[crossfire.livejournal.com]

I love this ad.

But..."instantaneous"? So when you make it it only lasts for an instant? Presumably because you DRINK IT IN ALL ITS AWESOMENESS or something. :D

[chicklet-girl.livejournal.com]

I want to put this on a t-shirt. In related news, I also want a giant mug of instantaneous chocolate.

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I would so totally buy a t-shirt with this logo!

YES

[so-low.livejournal.com]

Everything about this is awesome!

YES

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

I adore chocolate! Om nom nom!

[moonpupy.livejournal.com]

Yes, ooooh, yes.