Comments on: “Its not how long you make it…”

By: Stephen Edwards

Stephen Edwards — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:18:44 +0000

Sometimes a cigarette is just a cigarette

By: fred

fred — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:28:03 +0000

look you clowns ..it’s quite obvious who that is..it;s smiling Bob’s grandfather

By: Eliyahu

Eliyahu — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:53:14 +0000

Perhaps they might want to reuse this ad for those “manhood enlarger” ads on television?

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:47:27 +0000

This one is way, way, way dirtier:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/4.....205397524/

By: mc

mc — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:15:18 +0000

This isn’t the only 1960s ad based on a sexual double-entendre that strikes people as in bad taste in our more permissive age. (Perhaps, because society is more permissive now, we take these things more literally.) Remember the Polaroid Swinger camera and the TV ad (”the Swinger says Yes”)?

By: Toronto

Toronto — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:46:54 +0000

Wait – they’re NOT selling tandem bicycles there?

Hmm – dual sloping top bars so lousy triangulation, a single bake cable implying a coaster brake in back and a single speed. Yup, it DOES matter how you make it long.

By: Charlene

Charlene — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:38:24 +0000

Subliminal Seduction was mainly Wilson Brian Key having a dirty mind.

This was not subliminal, and I doubt more than a handful of readers wouldn’t have “got it”. In 1967?

By: Repack Rider

Repack Rider — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:53:13 +0000

I read a book called “Subliminal Seduction” that discussed the sexual symbolism used to sell products such as cigarettes that had no practical purpose, but had a conveniently phallic shape.

It’s not like the ad writer did this by accident.