The use of fear to sell things has always been around. Sellers are always toying with the psyche of their buyers. This ad, from 1933, just seems to ramp it up. Maybe it's just me, but this looks like a photo you'd expect to see on an old film noir movie poster. This fellow has more than a sore throat to worry about. This fellow is about to die. I don't know who killed him, but it wasn't germs.
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He he looks like a fellow taking his pulse.
ReplyDeleteHe's been on a treadmill, wiped is brow, and is checking if his pulse is in his training zone.
He probably could use some mouthwash.
~Dia
Perhaps he just realized he doesn't have a pulse. He probably shouldn't have accepted that free bottle of water from the guy in the parking lot dressed as the grim reaper.
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