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[rick-day.livejournal.com]

shit! That is a huge syringe! And I bet they pricked the kid for aunthenticity.

"Now, hold still for the camera."

[tree_and_leaf]

Actually, the STD one's not bad. It's not unnecessarily alarmist, and it takes teenagers' fears of their parents finding out seriously. Though I do hope they sent the booklet out in a plain envelope.

[itskelp.livejournal.com]

at our school we have posters with two little stick figures in bed (one asleep, one sitting up worried) with the tagline "Are you positive you're negative?" (They tend to be for chlamydia testing though. . )

I always bust up when I see them, the little worried stick figures are so cute, hahaha

[tree_and_leaf]

My college has a chlamydia test poster with some lads playing rugby and the caption "Don't wait till you have sore balls."

I'm not sure if they mean it to be as homoerotic as it turned out.

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

Is that a big enough syringe or what? That looks more like a pint of protection, not an ounce. Criminy, I've used smaller syringes on horses.

[pbrim.livejournal.com]

Actually fairly standard for a multidose syringe. In the early 60s, as I remember it, we got lined up fairly regularly at school for tests or vacination. I remember polio in particular, although it was on sugar cubes. There were three doses at intervals, each on a sugar cube you had to eat, and I hated sugar cubes. Due to changing schools I actually got the polio vaccine twice. I tried to tell them I had had it before, but they didn't believe. There were also mass vacinations for smallpox in school and there were rumors that if you did something wrong the scab would get knocked off early and YOU WOULD DIE HORRIBLY! Everyone went around paranoid for days.

The other thing I remember particularly was regular mass TB tests. The best was where they jabbed you with this little round thing that had a bunch of tines on it. Worst was where they had to slip a needle sideways just under the skin. If the nurse moved wrong, it broke through the skin and she had to do it again -- one nurse got me 3 times! Then we all lined up a few days later to check the results.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

I remember the round TB tester still in use in the 80s and 90s, too. I was 6 years old and the nurse at the doctor's office started drawing a smiley cat face on my arm, without telling me why. I thought it was so cute...until the nurse said "Now it's time to give the kitty a nose!" and jabbed me with the TB tester. I burst into hysterical tears--not because it physically hurt, but because it startled me and my feelings were hurt. Ooh, did that nurse get bitched out by my mother...

...sorry, 22 years later I'm still traumatized, apparently.

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

OW! Poor little guy.

[bradygirl_12]

Yikes! That syringe looks like somethng the Three Stooges would use! :)

[imweirdlikethat.livejournal.com]

The guy in that last ad looks a bit like a young Bob Dylan, lol.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

The guy on the ladder's not smoking a pipe? You can tell he's not a serious family man of the 50s.

[beetle-breath.livejournal.com]

what the fuck is Pops doing, trying to paint the ceiling a foot away from the ladder?

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

In the gonorrhea ad, the boy looks so innocent and naive, but the girl has a guilty look. The little slut knows she has the clap and doesn't care who she gives it to.

And I base all of this on a photo of two kids on a modeling gig who probably had no idea what the photo was going to be used for.

[midniterose.livejournal.com]

I think I'd faint at the sight of that syringe

[teamrodent.livejournal.com]

1) "All right, (Hic!) k..id! Are you or the dog messing around (hic) with the brakes of this ladder?"

"This is the last time I don't check Angie's List first."

2) "Holy fuck, Dr Ahab! Take your pound of flesh, will ya?"

3) Nice to see the integration at the counter. "Remember, kids. Cleaning supplies will NOT save you in case of VD!"