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July 21st, 2017

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Tel Aviv: The Old and The New

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GN Tel Aviv/Yafo #tlvstreets #tlvdaily #tlvyafo #iphonepic #elinabelltlv #summerevening — in Tel Aviv, Israel--by Elina Bell ([livejournal.com profile] elle_belle10); shared with permission
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Vintage Ads That Would Never Be Allowed Today

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For better start in life, start Cola earlier

Came across this in the article by Groovy History and thought I'd share with this comm; several of the other ads are even more unbelievable; take a look over here at their website


(cross-posting from [livejournal.com profile] vintage_ads)

Edited to add:

Thanks to <ljuser="deverbative"> on [livejournal.com profile] vintage_ads for pointing this out:

This ad is fake.

http://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/start_cola_earlier_says_the_soda_pop_board_of_america
https://grist.org/article/food-vintage-soda-ads-can-you-spot-the-fake/full/
http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=59204

Further edit from
[livejournal.com profile] dandyxr:

That Hardee's ad that says "women don't leave the kitchen" and the Winston ad with the pregnant woman smoking are pretty obvious fakes

But.. a lot of the ads on there are real. Basically all the ones that have a husband spanking his wife are legit. Palmolive "men ask is she pretty not is she clever", even the Marlboro one "have a cigarette before you scold me"
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Special post: The Grandiloquent Word of the Day 2018 Wall Calendar, and a Y-word

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(cross-posting from [livejournal.com profile] 1word1day)

Several times, in the last few months, I've shared posts from the Grandiloquent Word of the Day FB page to this comm. So, I thought some of you might be interested in this announcement:

The Grandiloquent Word of the Day, by Jason Ott, is issuing a calendar for the upcoming year. You can reserve your copy in PDF and/or print today, and if you do, you will get a PDF bonus--The Grandiloquent Book of Shenanigans!

The deadline for pledging to reserve your copy is tonight, at 12 midnight.

And a bonus word from their FB page:

Yafflephobia!



Yafflephobia
(YAF-ful-FO-bee-ya)
Noun
-The extreme or irrational fear of Woodpeckers.

From “yaffle" - a large green and yellow woodpecker (Picus viridis, family Picidae) with a red crown and a laughing call.
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“phobia” via Latin from Greek - extreme or irrational fear or dislike of a specified thing or group.

Used in a sentence:
“Pinocchio was enjoying watching Saturday morning cartoons right up until The Woody Woodpecker Show induced a full-blown case of yafflephobia.”