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Theme: REALLY strange tag lines.

1. "I'm glad I'm working in America"
Soft-Tuff Scot Tissue Towels

Of course he's glad - he's using 147% more tissue towels. Join the "Scott Washroom Advisory Service".

2. "Job Squad really is like a pile of paper towels rolled into one!"
Job Squad Paper Towels

Based on "an actual TV oven-cleaning demonstration" - WHAT?  Isn't a roll of paper towels JUST LIKE a pile of paper towels rolled into one?


3. "THIS NEW INVENTION WILL CHANGE EVERY IDEA YOU EVER HAD ABOUT PAPER TOWELS"
ScotTowels


The colors, the random strip of peel, the sprig of ... parsley?, all laid ON a towel not yet torn off.  So much to love.



4. "Somehow, new Gala suggests you whistle while you work."
Gala Towels

All the ad copy is amazing in this one (behind a cut):

"Won't you buy it at least once?" )




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All of them feature the attractive* and well-dressed Zenas Crane (b. May 9, 1777).  Most come from the 1940s but use period paintings by Nat White as inspirations.

*going by these "fanciful depictions" at least

On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History By Nicholas A. Basbanes )


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