Janis: You said you were cheated!
Arlo: You said the x-ray glasses didn't work!
Arlo: Well, I was only ten years old!
Arlo: I didn't know what to look for!
plus, 10-year-olds don’t really have all that much to admire if you’re 10 yourself.Decades later, much has changed.But now our Janis admirer will make some appreciative comment and his non-admirers will castigate him.Rinse and repeat.
The Garry Moore show was sponsored by Winston, and he had to have a lit cigarette in the commercials. He didn’t smoke – hated the habit! – so he never actually put the cigarette into his mouth.
I remember the story of a group in the 60s that wanted to ban smoking. They named themselves the “League to Save Mankind From Tobacco.” Then someone noted the initials.
Dr McCoyJoe Camel was a dromedary. Bactrians have two humps. Llamas, alpacas, vicuñuas, and guanacos have no humps. Now, aren’t you sorry you brought it up?
Once while Jack Benny was sponsored by Lucky Strike, he guest stared on Burns and Allen, planning forvJack and George to do a concert together and arguing about whose sponsor (B&A’s was Maxwell House coffee); announcer Bill Goodwin or Harry Von Zell got into the converrsation with, “In this case ‘LSMFT’ will mean ’Let’s sample Maxwell’s fine taste.’”
A kid’s window-painting contest someplace, focusing on health messages, was won by Joe Chemo, a patchy-haired camel with half a dozen IV tubes running into him.
When I was a child, I would buy my dad a carton of cigarettes for Christmas. Anybody could purchase them in those days and Dad died long ago of emphysema. No, I never smoked.
Flash Gordon about 8 years ago
And at age ten, if they had worked, you would have freaked out.
Varnes about 8 years ago
I learned this when I was 12….L. S. M. F. T. …Oh, and “It’s what’s upfront that counts!”…
KenTheCoffinDweller about 8 years ago
Never used them, but were Luckys unfiltered? So wouldn’t it have all been “Up Front”?
David Huie Green AmericaIsGreatItHasUs about 8 years ago
plus, 10-year-olds don’t really have all that much to admire if you’re 10 yourself.Decades later, much has changed.But now our Janis admirer will make some appreciative comment and his non-admirers will castigate him.Rinse and repeat.
Doctor_McCoy about 8 years ago
The boys didn’t have the internet to surf back then.
Also, I remember that if you took the blue “tape” off the top of the pack some had a star and some didn’t.
kd1sq Premium Member about 8 years ago
And, of course, “Not a cough in a carload!”
Suny about 8 years ago
What does L.S.M.F.T. mean?
dtj621 about 8 years ago
“Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco”, if memory serves correct.
MeGoNow Premium Member about 8 years ago
I knew it. They’re imagination powered, and the “X-ray” image he sees is from when they were about 20.
Dani Rice about 8 years ago
The Garry Moore show was sponsored by Winston, and he had to have a lit cigarette in the commercials. He didn’t smoke – hated the habit! – so he never actually put the cigarette into his mouth.
Doctor_McCoy about 8 years ago
I remember the Camel package. Seriously, did the camel have one or two humps?
Ermine Notyours about 8 years ago
Even The Flintsones did cigarette ads. It was a prime time show, not necessarily a kids cartoon, but still…
Max Starman Jones about 8 years ago
I remember the story of a group in the 60s that wanted to ban smoking. They named themselves the “League to Save Mankind From Tobacco.” Then someone noted the initials.
3pibgorn9 about 8 years ago
heh heh.
hippogriff about 8 years ago
Dr McCoyJoe Camel was a dromedary. Bactrians have two humps. Llamas, alpacas, vicuñuas, and guanacos have no humps. Now, aren’t you sorry you brought it up?
57BelAir about 8 years ago
with us it was "Loose Straps…..
JP Steve Premium Member about 8 years ago
“All the best women are thin and rich.” Even at twelve years old I knew that was going to be a MAJOR fail for a feminist cigarette ad!
as85 Premium Member about 8 years ago
Nothing for Bastille Day this year????
datapack about 8 years ago
I’d rather fight than switch! Tarrytons?
datapack about 8 years ago
I’d rather fight than switch! Tarrytons?
gcarlson about 8 years ago
Once while Jack Benny was sponsored by Lucky Strike, he guest stared on Burns and Allen, planning forvJack and George to do a concert together and arguing about whose sponsor (B&A’s was Maxwell House coffee); announcer Bill Goodwin or Harry Von Zell got into the converrsation with, “In this case ‘LSMFT’ will mean ’Let’s sample Maxwell’s fine taste.’”
gcarlson about 8 years ago
A kid’s window-painting contest someplace, focusing on health messages, was won by Joe Chemo, a patchy-haired camel with half a dozen IV tubes running into him.
whassamattayou about 8 years ago
9 out of 10 doctors who tried Camels preferred women.
jbmlaw01 about 8 years ago
You’ve come a long way, baby.
jploch5408 about 8 years ago
So true!
wolfman47130 about 8 years ago
Way to go Arlo, knowledge is a wonderful thing!!
Reppr Premium Member about 8 years ago
Salem, don’t inhale ’em.
askaMoose about 8 years ago
Lucky Strike Green has gone to war.
That shows my age.
LuvThemPluggers about 8 years ago
When I was a child, I would buy my dad a carton of cigarettes for Christmas. Anybody could purchase them in those days and Dad died long ago of emphysema. No, I never smoked.
dickmitsch Premium Member about 8 years ago
Loose sweaters make floppy tt’s