Weekend EventS Starting Tomorrow!
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Friday - Saturday May 13-15 Bad luck in ads, horror movies, and first aid!!
Tomorrow's Friday the 13th is the ONLY one this year!! In honor of that, bad luck depicted in ads. Anything depicted in an ad that you know isn't going to end well; ads that show something bad that already happened and how their product/service can fix it (ie: Maytag repair man); black cats (yes stereotype, but it fits the Friday the 13th theme); etc As always WIDE interpretation!! We'll carry the theme throughout the weekend.
Also for Friday the 13th (and the whole weekend), horror movie trailers and ads!!
And finally, ads for first aid products. Band-aids, antibiotic ointment, bactine, etc. Anything that'll help patch ya up!
Tomorrow's Friday the 13th is the ONLY one this year!! In honor of that, bad luck depicted in ads. Anything depicted in an ad that you know isn't going to end well; ads that show something bad that already happened and how their product/service can fix it (ie: Maytag repair man); black cats (yes stereotype, but it fits the Friday the 13th theme); etc As always WIDE interpretation!! We'll carry the theme throughout the weekend.
Also for Friday the 13th (and the whole weekend), horror movie trailers and ads!!
And finally, ads for first aid products. Band-aids, antibiotic ointment, bactine, etc. Anything that'll help patch ya up!
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No, I didn't cry at all. I just looked at them. Looked at them with the full disappointment of one who has seen what I have seen in my 18 months of living. As my eyes met theirs, as they gazed upon the pinched, hopeless expression on my visage, I heard one of them murmur, "What have we done?"
You have done it all, yet you have done nothing.

You have done it all, yet you have done nothing.

1959 Ad for Johnson & Johnson First Aid
Aug. 17th, 2013 03:56 pm![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
Aww, the sheriff got hurt! It looks like EVERYONE in this ad is about to have SERIOUS accidents! D:




The Gray Specter of Infection
Feb. 9th, 2012 10:28 pm![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
I can't even read the whole headline without laughing, especially because I'm not supposed to laugh at the spectre of infection.
Which IS creepy, I'll admit.
Blue-Jay Corn Remover, by Bauer & Black, 1927. Artwork by Walter W. Seaton.

There are many other Blue-Jay ads out there, some quite funny. But this "Gray Specter of Infection" is a powerful image they used at least three other times. See them
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Which IS creepy, I'll admit.
Blue-Jay Corn Remover, by Bauer & Black, 1927. Artwork by Walter W. Seaton.
There are many other Blue-Jay ads out there, some quite funny. But this "Gray Specter of Infection" is a powerful image they used at least three other times. See them