Earle Hyman, the Shakespearean actor best known to most as “Grandpa Huxtable” in a 1959 Smirnoff vodka ad.
~ Good Housekeeping, December 1943
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“…see how Crisco-frying makes those Franks in Blankets brown and crisp. And they’re so digestible even children may eat ‘em!”Why do only nine out of ten doctors say that it’s digestible?!?
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~ The Standard Guide to Florida, 1910
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(click to enlarge)“.22 caliber automatic rife … makes an outing outfit complete.”
For some reason I am reading an issue of AARP magazine that someone left at my work and in it, I saw (a variation of) this ad.
Will all of the “pointing and clicking” and “dragging and dropping” you’re lucky if you can figure out where you are…The components are all connected; all you do is plug it into an outlet and your high-speed Internet connection.
so in love
john darnielle is perfect
Dude. ”HAM” ref AND railing against the gender binary? Be still my heart.
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Precious Precocious Child of the Day: In the girls section at a Toys “R” Us, Riley suddenly has an epiphany: Segregating toys by gender is wrong.
At least one British toy store agrees.
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Girls like superheroes, too.
(Source: samreich)
This [Nike’s commercial about Jordan’s retirement, in which his career goes in reverse] is good, too.
End of Jordan commercial spam.
This is my all-time favorite Jordan commercial, tho. Don’t give up.
I’ve had this stuck in my head since this post.
