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...

I can barely believe it came out period! :O

There were loads of ads like that back in the 50s and 60s, with the implication it was perfectly normal for a husband to beat his wife if she "failed" in any way. It's scary how primitive society still was in what most of us think of as the start of the modern age.

Don't worry. He's not about to spank her.
She simply accidentally tripped right where he was sitting
and he bravely & kindly broke her fall.

Now, as far as his raised right hand...and the text that says "woe unto you"
...that just .. that just....

oh never mind. I can't find a way to justify this.

:ohbruther:

(says this as I drink a smoothing hot cut of Chase & Sanborn coffee)

So this was the relationship between Edgar Bergen and Charley McCarthy.

Here is another Out Of Place Artifact (ooparts) from the same period.

Uh oh. I predict this thread will soon devolve into a posting tit-for-tat of who can post the most racist 1940s Bugs Bunny cartoons.

I'm too lazy to look up the celebs in the Camel ad, but I wonder how many of them died of cancer, not necessary due to the ravages of old age and the body shuting down.