write_light ([identity profile] write-light.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] vintageads2012-05-30 09:21 am
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Laxies! Comic strip ad

Laxies (Ex-Lax) laxatives, 1950s

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[identity profile] cuddyclothes.livejournal.com 2012-05-30 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] cuddyclothes.livejournal.com 2012-05-30 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Joan Crawford would have loved "Treat the children to the 'Happy Medium' Laxative".

[identity profile] gillianinoz.livejournal.com 2012-05-30 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
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'.


[identity profile] brendala.livejournal.com 2012-05-30 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] cuddyclothes.livejournal.com 2012-05-31 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
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!

[personal profile] whoseline_wlsc 2012-05-31 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
"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.

[identity profile] mjspice.livejournal.com 2012-05-31 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
I still didn't understand one word.

[identity profile] kyoko-godaikun.livejournal.com 2012-05-31 09:56 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] 1geek-queen.livejournal.com 2012-05-31 10:25 am (UTC)(link)
O_O
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