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Tag: humor
Ants In Your Panties
Vintage novelty ad found at A Slip Of A Girl — her post also has a link to another vintage pair of panties with embroidered ants-ies.
Gretchen Was A Huffer
Vintage Vicks VapoRub ad found in the November 1964 issue of Family Circle.
Why Train Engineers Wore Handkerchiefs
Another bit from Caricature, circa 1915. This bit about a dirty-faced train engineer in Tickville is credited to George Bingham.
Bathtub Side Car
From my copy of Caricature: Wit & Humor of a Nation in Picture, Song & Story, this oddly charming illustration:
The caption reads:
Plumber — A bathtub side car may not be very comfortable, but it’s all right in a rain.
Got A Light?
You will with fun-tastic lamps by CreativePal! Check out the Hollywood Finger Cigarette Ring Custom TV Lamp and Bobs Chocolate Candy Cigarette Box Lamp! No vintage things were harmed; graphics were scanned and recreated to create these gems. (PS You may also want to see my old post on candy cigarettes.)
Amy Didn’t Want Her Photo Taken
But in her defense, no one wanted to pose for creepy Uncle Edgar.
I love the floral wallpaper and the chenille bedspread though.
Photo via bondman2.
“The Electric Company Gang Jokes Around To Make Reading More Fun”
If not a little, err, sexually uncomfortable.
Two-page illustrated joke from The Electric Company Joke Book, edited by Byron Preiss, Jack Rickard drew the pictures. (A Golden Book, published by Western Publishing Company; copyright 1973, The Children’s Television Workshop).
I do love me the Easy Reader logo (lower right corner of the cover).
Death By Chocolate
Cod Liver Oil Vs The Laundry
Another one of those “prize winning household hints” from that 1940s Hint Hunt booklet: “Give cod liver oil while the baby is taking a bath and you will avoid staining clothes!”
No word on how to avoid staining the bathtub.
