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Vintage Ads with Science / Technology Themes

Take a break from the drudgery with some of these jokes, song parodies, anecdotes and assorted humor that has been collected from friends & from websites across the Internet. This humor is light-hearted and sometimes slightly offensive to the easily-offended, so you are forewarned. I have taken care to censor "humor" with overt sexual overtones (or undertones), degrading political taunts, and hateful tirades, so it is all workplace-safe. I have also tried to warn of any links that will result in audio clips so you can take appropriate precautions. Please send any potential candidates for this humor page to the e-mail link above.

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It is amazing what passed as good advertising strategy back in the early days of the media. Some of the ads are zany, some are incredibly politically incorrect, and others are downright dangerous. These examples have been making the rounds on the Internet in the last few months, so I have collected the ones with a science / technology theme.

All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.

RF Cafe - Vintage Alien Power Pinball Machine Ad

Today, aliens do Wii between conquering worlds

RF Cafe - Vintage Ohio Art Mighty Tiny Ad

iPod prototype?

RF Cafe - Vintage Western Electric TV Phone Ad

Impressive, actually

RF Cafe - Vintage Datacomp Computer Ad

The "s" word - it sold then, it sells now

RF Cafe - Vintage Rigid Ad

Even if you weren't going to buy a Graviton Polarity Generator, you will

RF Cafe - Vintage Subaru Babe Magnet Ad

I had forgotten what a babe magnet Subarus used to be... not

RF Cafe - Vintage Commodore Computer Ad

It probably wasn't even plugged into a GFI receptacle

RF Cafe - Vintage Iver Johnson Revolvers Ad

Hmmm... I'm a big 2nd Amendment guy and NRA member, but this is goes a bit too far

RF Cafe - Vintage Ride Sharing HOV Ad

Maybe use this as a billboard to keep cheaters out of the HOV lanes!

RF Cafe - Vintage Electrolux Ad

Not really appreciating the analogy here... (Q. Are those man boobs I see?)

RF Cafe - Vintage Western Electric Phone Ad

Color sure was ugly back then

RF Cafe - Vintage Apple Computer Ad

I think their market share is still about the same

RF Cafe - Vintage Schlitz Beer Ad

Engineers drink beer, so this ad is relevant

RF Cafe - Vintage Del Monte Catsup Ad

How times have changed. Now it's always men who are lame buffoons in ads.

RF Cafe - Vintage Tiparillo Ad

The census is science, so I included this ad

RF Cafe - Vintage Pitnep Boews Ad

Whoa! Did they really print that?

I found this cool Vintage Technology website while researching.


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