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Tuesday, November 15, 2016

"What could possibly go wrong?": Inventions from the nasty past

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Call these "un-ventions". Things the inventor should have thought twice about. Things that might even be hazardous to your...
Monday, April 28, 2014

They Came from Hell: the strangest dolls in advertising

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I apologize for this, but I had to load it up-front to get you used to the flavor of this post. My obsession with old comic book ads know...
Saturday, November 19, 2011

What once was magical

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I've been looking for the YouTube vid of this ad for over a year: it was on last year, and I was delighted to see it again. There...
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Sunday, June 5, 2011

Look, Mother, I'm making a few bucks off self-caricature!

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Thursday, September 30, 2010

William Shatner Loblaws commercial

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I also remember an ad he did in the '70s for Shirriff Instant Pudding with Mini-Buds, in which he tasted the pudding with a histrionic ...
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Margaret Gunning
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Welcome to Margaret Gunning's blog: a tribute to the strangeness of the ordinary. Ms.Gunning is the author of The Glass Character (Thistledown Press), her paean/tribute to the brilliant silent screen comic Harold Lloyd. Researching and writing this novel celebrating Harold's legacy and legend was by far the most compelling (and fun!) experience in her long and varied writer's life. The novel is available on Amazon and Kindle, Thistledown Press, and other major book sites. Her previous novels, Better than Life (NeWestPress) and Mallory (Turnstone Press) explore her lifelong fascination with family secrets, alienation, and the surprising joys of the ordinary. She has also written hundreds of book reviews (Montreal Gazette, Vancouver Sun, Toronto Globe and Mail) and newspaper columns for small-town papers across the country. Her philosophy: "Everything that happens is happening for the first time."
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