[identity profile] cactuswren.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] vintageads
I now have a working scanner.  I'm not sure whether that is good or bad news for this community:

Image of the Hindenburg explosion, with text advertising Schick shavers

Great idea:  get people to associate your product with hideous disasters, terrible loss of life, and third-degree burns.

Date: 2011-11-02 10:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] huskyteer.livejournal.com
WHAT THE ACTUAL. 'The survivors were shaved with Schick Shavers' makes it sound like some dreadful punishment.

Date: 2011-11-02 12:09 pm (UTC)

Yes

Date: 2011-11-02 12:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] singeaddams.livejournal.com
Ooh! Bite me, Schick!

Yes, but eww!

Date: 2011-11-02 01:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com
Wow! I thought I had seen some tasteless, exploitative, and insensitive post-9/11 ads, but wow! Might I suggest adding the "WTF?" tag?

Date: 2011-11-02 02:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] teamrodent.livejournal.com
Before there was "OMG_too_soon", there was this.

tip

Date: 2011-11-02 03:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kip-w.livejournal.com
A piece of black paper behind the original when you're scanning will block out most of what's on the other side of the page.

Yes

Date: 2011-11-02 03:49 pm (UTC)
bradygirl_12: (witch (victorian))
From: [personal profile] bradygirl_12
Yes!

Totally tasteless.

Date: 2011-11-02 03:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leoprincess.livejournal.com
Wow. 'Poor taste' doesn't even begin to cover this ad concept.

Date: 2011-11-02 04:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nekusagi.livejournal.com
"thick crust of tissue on their faces"

aaaaaaaaaaaaand that's where I became too grossed out to read any further.

Date: 2011-11-02 05:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spuzzlightyear.livejournal.com
"Oh, The Closeness Of These Shaves!"

YES

Date: 2011-11-02 05:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rosehiptea.livejournal.com
The sad part is that I can totally see why some ad executive thought this was a great idea.

(The really sad part is that said ad executive wasn't stopped.)

yes

Date: 2011-11-02 05:47 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] whoseline_wlsc
Sounds really painful, actually. The Hindenburg disaster and shavers are things that shouldn't really go together.

Yes

Date: 2011-11-02 09:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] noluck-boston.livejournal.com
Wow, Yeah why not.

Date: 2011-11-02 11:39 pm (UTC)

Hell Yes

Date: 2011-11-03 06:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bernthewitch.livejournal.com
O_____________________________________O

Yes!

Date: 2011-11-03 08:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] song-of-copper.livejournal.com
Yes. AAAAAHHOoouuuchhh. o__O Surely reading this ad would make your prospective customer think, "You know what... forget shaving. I think I'll grow a beard."

YES

Date: 2011-11-04 03:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] michaeldoty.livejournal.com
Beyond tasteless.

Yes

Date: 2011-11-04 02:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ejia-arath03.livejournal.com
It sounds like a threat.

"They survived the Hindenburg... but not the Schick Shavers!"

Date: 2011-11-09 07:19 pm (UTC)
misstia: (Default)
From: [personal profile] misstia
yes

Date: 2011-11-10 01:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] deborahkla.livejournal.com
It's definitely good news you have a working scanner, and this has to be one of the most bizarre ads of all time. Let's sell our product by exploiting a disaster!

I LOVE your icon, btw. :-)

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