Heaven forbid the guy make his own eggs If you’re one of those people who thinks prescription-drug commercials have gotten out of hand, you might want to have a gander at this LiveJournal collection of vintage ads. As hard as it may be to imagine, quaaludes, ether and lots of other stuff that junkies abuse in dark alleys today were once the stuff of top-dollar advertising. Copy from some of our other favorites: "Tyrant in the house? Thorazine can control the agitated, belligerent senile." And the always-popular "Mabel is unstable." Suddenly, the four-hour erection disclaimer doesn’t seem nearly as bad. —Posted by David Kiefaber

August 17, 2006 in Kiefaber | Permalink

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Leave it up to advertisers to make something that is addictive enjoyable and pleasant while it wraps you up in the dark cloak of jonesing. This collection of vintage pharmaceutical adv... [Read More]

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Injectable whole opium. Now there's a good time in a bottle.

Posted by: CorruptedJournalist | Aug 17, 2006 2:57:01 PM

Darn right, CJ. It beats that skim opium, that's for sure.

Posted by: Uvula | Aug 17, 2006 3:07:06 PM

One thing that EVERYONE discussing these ads keeps forgetting is that back in the 50's, 60's, 70's and even the 80's pharmaceutical companies were not allowed to advertise their non-OTC products directly to the consumer. All these ads were directed at the doctors. I am the one who originally scanned these ads for sale on my website (www.decodog.com). They came out of specialized professional medical magazines and journals -- not consumer magazines.

Posted by: Decodog | Mar 12, 2007 9:52:30 AM

Greeting. They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
I am from Greece and also am speaking English, tell me right I wrote the following sentence: "She will then wrap both her legs around the man hips and rub her breasts against his legs."

Thank you very much :). Dottie.

Posted by: Dottie | Feb 22, 2009 6:17:28 PM

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