Laxies! Comic strip ad

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Laxies (Ex-Lax) laxatives, 1950s



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Comments

[cuddyclothes.livejournal.com]

WHAT KIND OF CROWD DOES THIS KID RUN WITH? AND WTF IS HE EATING THAT HE NEEDS LAXATIVES ALL THE TIME? ARE HIS PIPES GOING TO BURST?

MAKE IT STOP!

[write-light.livejournal.com]

"Most of the fellers in our crowd take Ex-lax." Not a line you hear often. D:

[moem]

And I'm quite happy that way.

[laplor.livejournal.com]

It's all that white food. Potatoes, rice, white bread...

I have never had to give my kids any sort of laxative - maybe because they've mostly been eating real food.

[cuddyclothes.livejournal.com]

Joan Crawford would have loved "Treat the children to the 'Happy Medium' Laxative".

[gillianinoz.livejournal.com]

So very much wrong with this ad, but the nightmare inducing leprachaun-thing on their shoulders is the creepiest.

That and the mild laxative labelled 'Sissy Laxative'.

[brendala.livejournal.com]

"Most of the fellers in our crowd take Ex-lax." Not a line you hear often. D:


Yeah. When I was that age, my friends and I talked about cartoons and playground gossip. The subject of laxatives never came up (nor did the subject of medication in general). I guess kids in the 50s had no respect for boundaries!

[brendala.livejournal.com]

DITTO! If a leprechaun appeared on my shoulder and told me that my child wasn't pooping correctly, I wouldn't take his advice. I'd get my gun!

[brendala.livejournal.com]

If a child needs to take laxatives that often, there is probably something seriously wrong with him and/or his diet! Feeding him Ex-Lax is not the correct solution!

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

There's more to explore here....there are so many advertisements about "digestible" food and everyone seems constipated back then. The whole Kellogg's empire seems to be built on these maladies. What on earth were those people eating?

[cuddyclothes.livejournal.com]

I want to see the copywriters writing this, and the artists who had to draw the pictures. The expressions on their faces would have been priceless.

Oh, pardon me--gotta run--literally--I took TUFFY laxative!

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I wasn't aware so many boys his age were into anorexia/bulimia culture. I thought it was more of a high school girl thing. At least it was at my school.

[whoseline_wlsc]

"Sissy laxative," hahaha

This reminds me of someone I know, who ate chocolate Ex-lax thinking it was actual chocolate. It definitely didn't end well.

[itskelp.livejournal.com]

to be fair, there's a crapton of fiber foods/supplements advertised on tv nowadays (excuse my phrasing)

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

I still didn't understand one word.

[kyoko-godaikun.livejournal.com]

My grandmother hated chocolate because of exlax being given to her when she was young. Back in the day, some people believed that when a kid was feeling bad, they needed exlax or something else.

[1geek-queen.livejournal.com]

O_O