🧵 I've been browsing old #Hollywood movie magazines from the teens & 1920s. Some of the classified ads are great, so I thought I'd share a few with you...
'I don't care who you are' makes me laugh
Bowlegged men and unsightly knock-knees
This contraption does not look like an 'easy way to shape your nose'
'You can improve your face'
This Natural Body Brace doesn't look very natural or comfortable
'Reduce your flesh' is a great horror title
More facial scaffolding, which probably doesn't work and looks ridiculous
'Stuff Beautiful Birds'.
Cue Sid James laugh.
Similarly...
The Star Electric Massage Vibrator 'for use in your own home' (as opposed to your local church or library)
'Be a man!" Lots of ads for proper alpha meatheads. I love the absolute unit in the Road to Strength ad. Like a Terry Gilliam cartoon. And I'm pretty sure the name Lionel Strongfort is made up.
Here's another. The 'Man You Would Like To Be' is just about the campest thing I have ever seen.
Last one for now.
'I teach piano a funny way'. Such an odd slogan for a serious piano teacher.
@Richard_Littler The forerunner to the ‘one weird trick’ ads maybe?

@Richard_Littler I just saw this person in a video
Playing the piano in the most incorrect manner
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_s2y479BeeF1z7ukda.mp4

[vid description: person playing a piano by plucking the strings, using a bass drum pedal to drum the piano cabinet, etc]

@Richard_Littler “All the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order”
@Richard_Littler The tiger stripe really just pushes it over the top. But he is pretty hot
@Richard_Littler "That's what you'd say, but that wouldn't wash with Geoff. No, he'd like a bit of pleading. Add spice to it. In fact, he'd probably tell you what he was going to do before he did it. "I'm going to pull your head off." "Oh no, please, don't pull my head off." "I'm going to pull your head off, because I don't like your head.""
@Richard_Littler
"You too can learn to stand in awkward poses that you'll never use in any situation ever"
@Richard_Littler Just remember that “alpha male” was as far I know, a wrong understanding of wolves social relationships. What is called alpha male by some animal societies bad articles, is just the father on a family. Wolves live not in a clan, but by family, until children are able to hunt/live alone, and then live. That’s why for other wolves (children) don’t mate with female in the clan (their mother or their sisters). Alpha male is then just a non-sens propaganda ^^.
@Richard_Littler pretty sure Lionel Strongfort is one of the MST3K Space Mutiny names.