Eric often gives me ideas or suggestions for a blog post. And I welcome them. Because when I’m having a block, and I’m desperate and look to him for help in a last-minute situation of what I should write that day, he usually has a blank stare and tells me to skip a day. So he is not one to come up with things on the fly. So two days ago, he sent me an email out of the blue for a post to do on Valentine’s Day which was a vintage ad he found online. Which I’m using for today’s post.
That is one of the many things we have in common. We both love vintage advertising! However, that is where our common love of vintage ads end. Trust me. I enjoy viewing vintage ads for the reason that I was in advertising for many years designing campaigns for companies like Pepsi, Nissan or Pizza Hut.
Eric, on the other hand, likes advertising for more bizarre reasons. He shows me these ads he finds on the internet and I just shake my head. I don’t get it. And it’s most likely a guy thing. He shows me ads with the Three Stooges, or with Santa smoking or peddling vodka or one about an ironing board and how it’s the best gift to buy your wife. His latest find was a bizarre Japanese ad. I’ll just leave it at that since it crosses political correctness boundaries today. (If you would like to see a sampling of his bizarre ad fetish, check out his Pinterest board here.)
He is always laughing hysterically as he shows me and I just roll my eyes and mutter “Uh huh.” In my opinion, slapstick is humor for the simpleton. Now, I’m not calling my husband one of the simple-minded, but he loves the Three Stooges. Need I say more? I’m just saying.
When I ask him why he thinks these ads are so funny he says “No, this is different! These ads make you shake your head and ask what were they thinking! Like one of my favorites, a baby drinking soda. Then there’s the 50’s and 60’s ads with doctors endorsing their favorite cigarettes.Can you imagine? Just call me weird but I find that stuff funny! If that happened today, a mere fifty years later, the ad agency would be fired!”
Well, I agree with him about that. There’s no way advertising like that would ever make it past the Art Director’s desk. But in all confession-type honesty, some of the ads he shows me I do find amusing and I’m laughing on the inside. But I will never let him know that.
I would like to add that Mr. Basketmaker has The Three Stooges as his screen background on his laptop! So his defense about the Three Stooges goes out the window.
It's like the Brady Gaga snack board all over again
I did that intentionally. I wanted you to whine some more.
As Ronald Reagan would say, "There you go again." I didn't say that I would, I said "maybe." No tacos for you!
I hear ya Lisa! Thanks for the comment and thanks for reading!!
Does it really matter? You just said if there was new footage, you would watch. Besides, if you were misrepresented in this post, you have now confirmed my other posts when I said you're a "whiner" because this sounds like whining to me darling!!! Now make me dinner. I'm hungry!
I was clearly misrepresented in this article. My wife’s article makes it seem as if I still watch The Three Stooges. If they were to find some lost footage.. .maybe I would watch. Oh ya, and I hear that there is a new movie coming out!
LOL! I can appreciate vintage advertising, but I can't appreciate slapstick humor. I do NOT get The Three Stooges at all. So. Boring. LOL