Comments on: 1968 Anacin ad defines housework as "a mild form of torture" http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 23:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: chgoliz http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1131008 chgoliz Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1131008 <blockquote>See if you don't feel better all over....</blockquote> Uh-huh. Because the job isn't over for the day until you're lying in the wet spot. Having done paid drudgery for 60-80 hour weeks and unpaid drudgery with no scheduled time off ever 24/7/365, I know which one required more drugs.

See if you don’t feel better all over….

Uh-huh. Because the job isn’t over for the day until you’re lying in the wet spot.

Having done paid drudgery for 60-80 hour weeks and unpaid drudgery with no scheduled time off ever 24/7/365, I know which one required more drugs.

]]> By: AKMA http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1129989 AKMA Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1129989 Surely the copywriters meant to say it "is a mild form of enhanced interrogation techniques".... Surely the copywriters meant to say it “is a mild form of enhanced interrogation techniques”….

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130254 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130254 Imitrex sucks donkey doo. From a migraine sufferer. Imitrex made mine so much worse that even reading the name, Imitrex, makes me grit my teeth in anger. Imitrex sucks donkey doo. From a migraine sufferer. Imitrex made mine so much worse that even reading the name, Imitrex, makes me grit my teeth in anger.

]]> By: facetedjewel http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130004 facetedjewel Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130004 A 'mild' form of torture? Now there's an understatement. I've lost so many brane cells from this soul killing drudgery I can barely typ. Or spell. A ‘mild’ form of torture? Now there’s an understatement. I’ve lost so many brane cells from this soul killing drudgery I can barely typ. Or spell.

]]> By: jphilby http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130009 jphilby Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130009 <i>These boring yet necessary tasks can bring on nervous tension, fatigue and what is now known as housewife headache.</i> This is 1968! mommy should be <i>dropping acid</i> instead! These boring yet necessary tasks can bring on nervous tension, fatigue and what is now known as housewife headache.

This is 1968! mommy should be dropping acid instead!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130012 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130012 If you say it with a straight face, you, too, can make up a medical diagnosis. "Reading all the comments on this post? Clearly you face what is called 'internet addiction.'" If you say it with a straight face, you, too, can make up a medical diagnosis.

“Reading all the comments on this post? Clearly you face what is called ‘internet addiction.’”

]]> By: Urizen http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130015 Urizen Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130015 One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small And the one called Anacin Doesn't do anything at all.... One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the one called Anacin
Doesn’t do anything at all….

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130026 Antinous / Moderator Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130026 I'm pretty sure that my mother's 50 hour work week, hour round-trip commute and still having to manage the household was more headache-inducing. I’m pretty sure that my mother’s 50 hour work week, hour round-trip commute and still having to manage the household was more headache-inducing.

]]> By: faithmanon http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130039 faithmanon Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130039 I remember anacin - but my family used valium instead for those "housewife headaches". Mommy's little helper, dontcha know. I remember anacin – but my family used valium instead for those “housewife headaches”. Mommy’s little helper, dontcha know.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130042 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130042 You joke, but several prescription migraine medicines are close relatives to LSD. As a side note, some guy with bad migraines heard about this and figured shrooms had LSD (not true), so tried them. Word is he found it puts migraines into remission for weeks or months. He got his chemistry wrong, but it turns out shrooms and imitrex are in the same family. You joke, but several prescription migraine medicines are close relatives to LSD. As a side note, some guy with bad migraines heard about this and figured shrooms had LSD (not true), so tried them. Word is he found it puts migraines into remission for weeks or months. He got his chemistry wrong, but it turns out shrooms and imitrex are in the same family.

]]> By: desain web surabaya http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130561 desain web surabaya Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130561 Must've been written by a 1968 housewife. ^_^ Must’ve been written by a 1968 housewife. ^_^

]]> By: kpkpkp http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130050 kpkpkp Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130050 Things are different today I hear every mother say.... Things are different today
I hear every mother say….

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130051 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130051 Let's see... "Anacin"... mild form of torture... Why do I suddenly have this mental picture of an annoying little cid and some ctonian horror called "jarjarbincs"? And why does it sounds so much like a good explaination? Let’s see… “Anacin”… mild form of torture…

Why do I suddenly have this mental picture of an annoying little cid and some ctonian horror called “jarjarbincs”?

And why does it sounds so much like a good explaination?

]]> By: blueelm http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130056 blueelm Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130056 Is your life boring and empty with nowhere for you to grown and now sense of value? Do you laugh at the irony of your existence? Does your family? Don't look for answers and for god's sake don't do anything. Kill your brain. It's useless anyway. Drugs are the answer, you won't even care that you're dying! Is your life boring and empty with nowhere for you to grown and now sense of value? Do you laugh at the irony of your existence? Does your family?

Don’t look for answers and for god’s sake don’t do anything. Kill your brain. It’s useless anyway. Drugs are the answer, you won’t even care that you’re dying!

]]> By: blueelm http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130058 blueelm Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130058 I can't typ either or spel. I can’t typ either or spel.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130070 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130070 Gee have times changed. Many women still have that plus hold jobs and have the joy of being a single parent. I don't know how the H-ell they do it! Gee have times changed. Many women still have that plus hold jobs and have the joy of being a single parent. I don’t know how the H-ell they do it!

]]> By: TooGoodToCheck http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130086 TooGoodToCheck Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130086 maybe I'm reading too much into the about-to-get-it-on looks between the couple in the bottom of the ad, but . . . is this advertising targeted directly at the trope of "not tonight honey, I have a headache"? maybe I’m reading too much into the about-to-get-it-on looks between the couple in the bottom of the ad, but . . . is this advertising targeted directly at the trope of “not tonight honey, I have a headache”?

]]> By: PaulR http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130343 PaulR Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130343 You should look at that 'photo' more closely. (I'm not suggesting that you bypass anti-downloading mechanisms, of course.) Some of it is a drawing not a photo. The perspectives are all wrong, it looks shopped, some looks like Ikea catalog clippings. You should look at that ‘photo’ more closely. (I’m not suggesting that you bypass anti-downloading mechanisms, of course.)

Some of it is a drawing not a photo. The perspectives are all wrong, it looks shopped, some looks like Ikea catalog clippings.

]]> By: vondasue http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130091 vondasue Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130091 Yep, I think you're right! In the 1960's you didn't dare try to run an ad that would say: Take Anacin so that you don't have to say to hubby "not tonight honey, I've got a headache"! LOL Yep, I think you’re right! In the 1960′s you didn’t dare try to run an ad that would say: Take Anacin so that you don’t have to say to hubby “not tonight honey, I’ve got a headache”! LOL

]]> By: facetedjewel http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1131382 facetedjewel Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1131382 'Uh-huh. Because the job isn't over for the day until you're lying in the wet spot.' Hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahaha...snortsnort!!! ‘Uh-huh. Because the job isn’t over for the day until you’re lying in the wet spot.’

Hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahaha…snortsnort!!!

]]> By: facetedjewel http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130112 facetedjewel Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130112 'Minutes after taking Anacin your headache goes, so does its nervous tension and fatigue'...and you can rush into the bathroom to spend two hours constructing an elaborate up-do and slip onto your best dress, before honey comes home to press in close, asking for a little 'sumpin sumpin', but you're feeling fine after a long day of minding the children, drudging about like Cinderella and taking two fortified aspirin and maybe a Lysol douche, so you say 'sure, why not? I'm soooo bored, even sex sounds good to me. Come 'ere, tiger, let me help you with that tie.' 'That, or I strangle you with it. Either way, I'm happy.' ‘Minutes after taking Anacin your headache goes, so does its nervous tension and fatigue’…and you can rush into the bathroom to spend two hours constructing an elaborate up-do and slip onto your best dress, before honey comes home to press in close, asking for a little ‘sumpin sumpin’, but you’re feeling fine after a long day of minding the children, drudging about like Cinderella and taking two fortified aspirin and maybe a Lysol douche, so you say ‘sure, why not? I’m soooo bored, even sex sounds good to me. Come ‘ere, tiger, let me help you with that tie.’

‘That, or I strangle you with it. Either way, I’m happy.’

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130113 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130113 Hence, the need for "A Room of Her Own"in lieu of the big pharma ad campaigns which go on today. 1968/2011 the more things change, the more they stay the same. Oh, and if the extreme right wing gets their way women and girls will be kept bare footed and pregnant, subservient to the man of the house whom g-d has declared the ruler and interpreter of "his" word. Read "The Handmaid's Tale" for a chilling look at the future that has become all too close for comfort in the U.S. Palin, Bachman, et al, are the moles for the uber-Christian, male hierarchy they believe is ordained in the Bible. Hence, the need for “A Room of Her Own”in lieu of the big pharma ad campaigns which go on today. 1968/2011 the more things change, the more they stay the same. Oh, and if the extreme right wing gets their way women and girls will be kept bare footed and pregnant, subservient to the man of the house whom g-d has declared the ruler and interpreter of “his” word. Read “The Handmaid’s Tale” for a chilling look at the future that has become all too close for comfort in the U.S. Palin, Bachman, et al, are the moles for the uber-Christian, male hierarchy they believe is ordained in the Bible.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130893 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130893 Barbra Streisand? Barbra Streisand?

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130127 Antinous / Moderator Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130127 There's a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/view-finder/3180762557/">photo by Julius Shulman</a> that has a perfect couple in their perfect mid-century home. Every time that I see it, I hear him saying, "Drunk again?" and her saying, "I wouldn't drink if you weren't fucking your secretary." The secret lives of Samantha and Darrin. There’s a photo by Julius Shulman that has a perfect couple in their perfect mid-century home. Every time that I see it, I hear him saying, “Drunk again?” and her saying, “I wouldn’t drink if you weren’t fucking your secretary.” The secret lives of Samantha and Darrin.

]]> By: Jake0748 http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130130 Jake0748 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130130 ..."enhanced interrogation techniques"... like ironing-boarding. …”enhanced interrogation techniques”… like ironing-boarding.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130135 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130135 Doing the same dull thing day after day is torture? Actually it is the foundation of our economy. Doing the same dull thing day after day is torture? Actually it is the foundation of our economy.

]]> By: vondasue http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130137 vondasue Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130137 Are you serious? I'm ten times more scared of Sharia Law than Christianity. If we don't watch our butts in the west, it may just happen. Are you serious? I’m ten times more scared of Sharia Law than Christianity. If we don’t watch our butts in the west, it may just happen.

]]> By: Modern Curve http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130138 Modern Curve Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130138 Must've been written by a 1968 housewife. Must’ve been written by a 1968 housewife.

]]> By: pjcamp http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130139 pjcamp Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130139 "She goes runnin' for the shelter Of her mother's little helper . . . " “She goes runnin’ for the shelter
Of her mother’s little helper . . . ”

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/04/1968-anacin-ad-defin.html#comment-1130395 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1130395 Should we just have prisoners clean houses until they talk? Should we just have prisoners clean houses until they talk?

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