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Bus Shelters to Milwaukee Teens: Pregnancy Stinks
It’s back to school for teens all across the nation. In Milwaukee, they’re taking this opportunity to make bus shelters bear the awful truth to teenagers: teen pregnancy stinks. How exactly?
Flashback: Casual Friday Gone Wrong
They sure had an odd way of advertising pants back in the day (the '60s?).
Let's feature a woman in her underwear surrounded by guys wearing Broomsticks brand pants. (Broomsticks?!) The copy underneath the picture suggests that the "play" at work that Broomsticks pants inspire involves sexually harassing "Rosie.
Flashback: Danger! Woman at Work
This is what a working woman looks like according to a 1950s Jantzen bathing suit ad. I guess it's better than being stuck in the kitchen, right? Either way, I'll have what she's having.
Oh Snap! When Flight Attendants Glammed It Up
There's a great scene in Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can when Leonardo DiCaprio's con artist character tries to elude the cops by pretending to be a pilot. As he waltzes through the airport, he enlists the help of some glamorous stewardesses (yes, that's what they were called back then) to camouflage him with their identically glamorous outfits. A lot of the photos in this slideshow hearken back to a time that some call air travel's glory years, when service was still good and passengers weren't herded like cattle.
Sarah Haskins: "Bloody Hell, I'm Old"
Sarah Haskins turned 30 recently — and she’s worried she’s “f*cked” because it seems that only ladies with short, blond hair represent products that usher one into old-ladyhood, complete with bladder issues and osteoporosis. She wants to still be able to walk with canoes, play with oranges, and feel 29 again. How to do this?
Flashback: How to Avoid the Walk of Shame
This "Happy Legs" polyester pant suit is shameful in itself. But perhaps it will divert the attention away from Rebecca's sexual shame come Monday morning.
Adrageous: Save the Cucumbers!
I guess if you're in a pickle and can't find your vibrator, a cucumber will do. This ad suggests that they don't like that very much.
Flashback: 5 Shockingly Sexist Ads
Wow, no matter how many we've seen, or how the years pass, these ads never get old. How could they? Not when they espouse such true and tried, stand-the-test-of-time messages like your husband will lock your doubtful, inhibited, ignorant self out if you don't wash your privates with Lysol.
Hardee's: Introducing the B-Hole With Icing
Hardee's is garnering attention for its new "biscuit holes with icing" product by linking them to a certain anatomical part you don't usually want to associate with something you put in your mouth. It really has come to this in advertising, hasn't it? Did it all start with Paris Hilton washing a car for Carl's Jr.?
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