Smokin’ Santas, smokin’ guns, smokin’ sex! Have yourself a very strange Christmas. Here are some ads from Christmas past.
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Strange is right! All amazing, especially the one of the family cuddling the Christmas guns – quite surreal.
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Judy, that one really got to me also. Bizarre!
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As luck would have it, in today’s entry at “Carole & Co.”, I close with Stan Freberg’s acerbic (and accurate) 1958 recording “Green Christmas,” in which the master satirist takes aim at advertising’s corruption of the holiday. Find it at
http://community.livejournal.com/carole_and_co/266249.html
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I remember some years ago picking up a 45PRM (may have been a reissue) of that classic. I haveto take a listen – have not heard it in years.
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Boy those smoking adds with Santa (“puff for puff Pall Mall is better!”) and the family with the rifles are something! Ha!
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Yes, that rifle one got me too!
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I guess those were the days when America was a free country. No wonder they look bizarre.
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