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Guess What This Ad Is For?

TresSugar — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:00:00 -0700

Hint - looks can be deceiving.

Bus Shelters to Milwaukee Teens: Pregnancy Stinks

TresSugar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:00:00 -0700

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? By featuring the image of a pair of huge, feces-stained diapers that claim to be scratch and sniff.

Actually, it’s only teen pregnancy that stinks, as the fine print will tell you:

This doesn’t really stink. But the consequences of teen pregnancy sure do. And this is just part of the ugly mess you’d be getting yourself into. Get the facts at babycanwait.com.

I wonder if the people who get close enough to read the writing are disappointed they don't get to smell crap? If you want to see what it looks like up close, read more.

Flashback: Casual Friday Gone Wrong

TresSugar — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:00:00 -0700

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. Or Carol. Or Eleanor, etc." (You know women - all equally harassable and interchangeable, especially when practically naked at work.) As one blogger put it, "Broomsticks. Your gang-rapey pants." Yowza. To see the complete ad, read more

"The Game Is Broomsticks. Ring around Rosie. Or Carol. Or Eleanor, etc. Fun. But you can only play if you wear Broomsticks slacks. Hopsacks, twists, flannels in blends of Acrilan and rayon for permanently pressed good looks. Play styles. Game colors. To help make you a winner. But if you don’t want to play our way - take off our pants and go home."

Flashback: Danger! Woman at Work

TresSugar — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:00:00 -0700

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

TresSugar — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:01:20 -0700

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. Some would also call it a time when stewardesses (there were "cabin boys" too) were treated as sex objects who were supposed to wait on you hand and foot and possibly hint at . . .other services. (For a time, there was a policy that only unmarried women could be stewardesses.) Let's take a look at the good, the bad, and the ugly in this flight attendant flashback.

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Sarah Haskins: "Bloody Hell, I'm Old"

TresSugar — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:00:00 -0700

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? Use products with dynamic first syllables. Works for me!

Flashback: How to Avoid the Walk of Shame

TresSugar — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:00:00 -0700

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!

TresSugar — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:00:00 -0700

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

TresSugar — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:30:00 -0700

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. Timeless!

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Hardee's: Introducing the B-Hole With Icing

TresSugar — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0700

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.?