Top 10 Ironic Ads From History

 

 

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Top 10 Ironic Ads From History

via Boing Boing by McLaren+Torchinsky on 7/29/09

Carrie McLaren is a guest blogger at Boing Boing and coauthor of Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture. She lives in Brooklyn, the former home of her now defunct Stay Free! magazine.

Earlier this month, Jason and I guest blogged at Consumerist. Here's something I posted there that might interest you all as well:

Remember when you could buy barbiturates for the baby? Cover your house with asbestos? Or get heroin from the doctor? Okay, probably not, but thanks to the immortal beauty of advertising, you can take a trip back in time. Here's our pick of some of the most ironic ads in American history.

(with apologies to my writing partner, Torchinsky, who loves Corvairs)

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