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K, at this point you're distracted because my eyeball is lookin at you. And you are wondering why my eyeball is staring at you. It's because .... I couldn't get a pic of my actual brain and this was the closest I could get to it. I tried taking a picture up my nose but that just came out lookin' like a big cave. So, you got the eyeball. Where was I?
Oh, yeah. Reach way back into those brain cells, all the way to the memory center. How many really old commercials can you remember? What's the oldest one you remember?
Remember the commercials for the Hershey's flavored straws? I remember flavored straws but only just barely can get my head wrapped around the commercial.
OO, here's one .... take sominex tonight and sleeeeep. Safe and restful ...... sleeep sleeep sleeeep.
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Oh, and Dippity Do. OO OO.... let's not forget spoolies. For you children, sppolies were a curler kinda thing. Little rubber doo dad that looked like a lamp with it's shade on upside down till you wound your hair around it and snaped the shade down.
At 7/14/2006 9:48 AM, 
Spoony Quine
` I used to sing Extra gum jingles when I was on the kindergarten playground, I just don't remember them anymore.
` Also, I remember threatening Barbie in commercials, especially one in this giant pink, glow-in-the-dark star-covered dress.
` Someone actually got me one of those and I pretended the pink dress was evil magical pink flames and that she was the bitchy, underwearless goddess that terrorized my itty-bitty Star Wars action figures.
` "Say I do believe I can see up that enormous woman's dress!"
` "You're right, Threepio, and she's not wearing any underwear!"
` ...Yeah. I don't know where that came from, but I think it's funny.
Milky, more like you had abused parents, knowing you. LOL!
How about koo koo for cocoa puffs?
Seequin, I forgot the Barbie commercials. Yeegads! I hated those, especially after they brought Ken on board who to me seemed more woman than Barbie. Oh and let's not forget skipper. GAK!
PS. Seequine if you wanna send me your head to play with my e-mail addy is freefallingfriday@yahoo.com
At 7/14/2006 10:34 AM, MilkMaid
Crabby, the three of us girls...were FAR MORE than a handful. The stories I could tell, we were HEATHENS....is that how you spell it?
Saturday mornings were always a delight at our house. We fought over the Lucky Charms and how many marshmallows we each got in our bowl, and who was going to sit closest to the TV to see Casper.
I always won. Bwahahaha!
Til we woke Momma up.
At 7/14/2006 10:35 AM, MilkMaid
This OFFICIALLY makes you a different generation than me LOL....
Pamper Shampoo
After 45 years, I occasionally find myself humming the tune to the Pamper Shampoo commercial,
which was on television around 1954 when I was seven years old.
"Pamper, Pamper, new shampoo;
Pamper, Pamper, new shampoo;
Gentle as a Lamb???
Yes, Ma'am!!!
Pamper, Pamper, new shampoo"
and all the while, this adorable, smiling, cuddly, white cartoon lamb was bounding and springing all
about the screen. I can't remember if we ever used any Pamper shampoo, but the commercial is a favorite early memory of mine. --- Becky, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1947
Love your site - I was actually doing a search for Pamper Shampoo. In my mind, it is inextricably connected with Tennessee Ernie Ford - and the lyrics I recall are a little different:
Pamper Pamper new shampoo
gentle as a lamb, so right for you
gentle as a lamb?
Yes, Ma'am!
Pamper Pamper new shampoo. --- Ellen, Santa Cruz, California, 1947
Yep. I KNEW it. It was your parents that suffered. LMAO.
Mine did no better. My poor mother came home one night and I had invited all the kids in the neighborhood to play hide and seek using our house, if....if....they did my house chores for me. One of the girls had gone into my mom's room to clean it. My Mom came home unexpectedly (which never happened till then) and found the girl wearing her clothes and putting on her make-up. another girl running the vaccuum and .... naturally the boys had slung mop water all over the kitchen floor and were running and sliding on it.
Milky, that explains it. I was pretty impressed myself, just like I am of Crabby.
I remember the Dolly Madison commercials during the origional airing of the peanuts specials. One such commercial happened after Linus, holding on to his blanket, was spun on the ice by Snoopy and then flung into a snow bank. I think at that point an announcer did a voice over for Dolly Madison.
How about the slinky commercerials. It's Slinky, it's Slinky, for fun it's a wonderful toy. It's Slinky, it's Slinky, it's fun for a girl and a boy.
How about the old Kool-Aid commercials with the destructive pitcher of Koo-Aid.
At 7/14/2006 12:24 PM, Spoony Quine
` Also, one of my favorite comments to give people is: "Sir/Ma'am, you are the cheese that goes crunch."
Crabby:` Skipper was her evil henchman.
` Okay, I'll send you some photos. Have fun ;) (BTW, I may have a really hot body, but I do wish I could mutate into other forms....)
` This is reminding me, there's a hilarious comic strip... let me see if I can find it in under half an hour. I used to have it on my computer....
Barman:` I was writing about the Bass-O-Matic just the other week! I forget where.... Yes!!!
Milky! Nice find! I didn't even think about googling. That was my all time fav when I was a bitty person. I loved that lamb. sigh. LOL! The commercial ran while Howdy Doody was on. Geez, I am seriously older than dirt.
Denny, I've got some good goop you can slather on. No seriously. I do. It's very refreshing too.
Sal, can I finish that one? Oh what a relief it is. ahhhhhhhhhhhhh ha ha ha!
At 7/14/2006 12:33 PM, Spoony Quine
` I've found it!! This is a fan comic, slap-dash-in the middle of a real comic strip archive.
` Fruittrix cereal, featuring sociopath Norman Gates.
No NOOOOO! Not the slinky jingle. I'll never get it outa my head now.
Sal, I don't remember killer bees but...I do remember the old Raid ones. Bass o'matic I remember and I "have" a fisherman's buddy. Remember that one?
Seequin, skipper really was evil to the bone. Oh sure, they made her look cute but, just what was she doing with that pink pony, huh huh?
Yes, send them!
Milky, ahhhhhhhhh ha ha ha ha! That's what I just said. Poor Barman. Now he's got a Texican and a Buckeye chasin after him.
Seequin. I'll go check it out.
Damn it, I know i can think of some. Oh well it's the weekend so I have plenty of time.
How about weebles wobble but they don't fall down?
This one is not a commercial, but it goes way back. Saturday morning cartoon time
Conjunction junction what's your function? hooking up words and phrases and clauses.
Whatever.
Hey Manny, I wrote a program several years ago that included a picture of the bill and I also added the song to play if anyone ever opened the "about" screen. We have 45 users of the program and no one has ever seen it. Oh well, if they did I probably would need to take the tune out at least.
I'm just a bill.
Yes, I'm only a bill.
And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill.
Well, it's a long, long journey
To the capital city.
It's a long, long wait
While I'm sitting in committee,
But I know I'll be a law some day
At least I hope and pray that I will
But today I am still just a bill.
Keep 'em coming guys. I can use the distraction. Sad weekend going on here for the family.
Bob's older brother has found out he has prostate cancer and his younger brother's wife had to bring her mother home to die today. She has cancer also. 3 different kinds and it's pretty much eating her alive. I don't think she can last much longer because she also has several blood clots in her legs, one in her aorta and I don't know where else.
She's a great lady and I'm gonna miss her.
At 7/15/2006 8:30 PM, Zen Wizard
The Brylcream ads were highly effective, because they came out when the last Fonzie "greasers" were falling into the La Brea Tar Pits and becoming extinct.
As I recall, a "studly" high school kid takes a nerdy junior high kid "under his wing," and grabs his Butchwax and says, "Hey--stop using that greasy kid stuff!"
You wanted to be like the studly high school kid and pick up chicks--though you weren't that sure what you were going to do with them yet.
So you raised holy hell with your mom at the grocery store when she reached for the Butchwax; 'cause you wanted Brylcream instead.
You were basically making the leap from Gene Vincent greaser to Bobby Vee hair helmet, as role-model.
There was another commercial imbedded deep in my psyche--Keds tennis shoes. In the commercial, the kid would run down the street at incredible speeds and jump Olympian type jumps after he put on the Keds.
You bugged your mom until you got them, and when you put them on you automatically jumped higher and ran faster, and it had nothing to do with the placebo effect.
There was also a toy called Six Finger that came out when the song "Secret Agent Man" came out.
It was basically a plastic finger that shot shit. It was so much better than just shooting a rubber band with your real finger--though, the decoder ring notwithstanding, I can't remember why.
But the Cuban Missle Crisis was resolved--in part--due to Soviet terror at the prospect of being fooled by an 8 year-old American kid's fake plastic finger that shot a plastic dart five feet.
Well lets see. How about Hey Mikey, Hey likes it... Life Cereal.
There was a Strohs (I believe) commercial where the dog (was it Alex) would go into the frige for master and get him beers. Bad idea by the way. Anyway the dog went in the kitchen, opened the fridge, got out the beer, opened them and then you heard the dog slurping something. The owner said that better be your water.
Cheverolet... the heart beat of america, chevrolet. I once had to sit down at an advertising agency for 30 minutes listening to like 45 or so commercials. I so hate that whole commercial line now.
Plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is fast
fast _fast_ (Alka-Seltzer)
Who wears short shorts? (Nair hair
removal cream)
My lines, my lines, I can't remember my lines. This one was probably in the 90s and was to advertise for a whole bunch of different Zoo's throught the nation to advertise for their zoo.
Libbys Libbys Libbys on your label label label, you will like it
like it like it on the table table table.
Nothing comes between me and my Calvins.
Heard it through the grapevine (California Raisins)
Kibbles and Bits! Kibbles and Bits! I'm gonna get me some Kibbles and Bits!
At 7/16/2006 7:23 PM, Zen Wizard
Here's a classic that was so good it had to be cancelled:
There was a Hamm's Beer cartoon that had really good artwork, an Indian, an animated bear, and various forest creatures.
The tom-tom beat out like an Indian war rhythm.
The song went, "From the land of sky blue waters."
(I guess that meant either Minnesota or Wisconsin, as the proverbial land of sky blue waters.)
Little kids liked the animated Indian and forest creatures so much parents were afraid that Hamm's was subconsciously programming kids to be alcoholics, and lobbied to get the commercial cancelled--is my understanding.
Zen, I'd completely forgotten that commercial! It was one of my favorites back in the day.
Bar now I have that Nair song stuck in my head. LOL!
Suze, I bet you guys have a chocolate company over there that's as popular as Hershey's is here. What is yours called?
K, here's one....
Is it true blonde have more fun?
A lady Clairol Blonde. That silky shining blonde!
That, I believe was the beginning of the blonde over-throw. Now days, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a blonde.
We went out to breakfast Saturday. Early. I'm not at my thinking best early so it seemed like an incredibly intelligent thing to do to count how many blondes, red-heads, brunettes ...yadda yadda. 70% blonde!
And hold onto your hat if you're out there, Zen.... one of them was (I swear) a Pamela Anderson look-alike.
Seequin, I started out a blond but went icky red somewhere near the second grade. 7th grade I made it blonde again.
Squirrel, my middle sister didn't believe my hair is red naturally. LOL! she thought it was the color of hers but nope. It's red. I'll probably have to show her my 5th grade pic to prove it.
Squirrel went from blonde to dark blonde or light brown and Manny is chesnut. (I think) That's how I describe it. Oddly Manny is the only one of us who's hair stayed pretty much the way it started.
At 7/17/2006 1:16 PM, Tumbleweed
How about inside you ear, that's pretty close.
"I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weiner, that is what I'de really like to be, cuz if I were an ocscar meyer weiner, everybody would eat me!" he he....eat me! Okay, maybe that is not how it really goes, but I remember the commercial.
"Have a Coke and a smile, makes you feel gooood"....I actually know all the words to this but too lazy to type. Later!
Check your shoes before you leave.
Ahhhhhh...Brill Cream. And I remember getting whipped for touching Daddy's tube LOL!
And I CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING. We actually got into trouble for not shutting the hell up with that jingle.
I think I was an abused child...or really bad.
Or both. :-)