Goofus and Gallant's crude wristwatches

A highlight from Mitch O'Connell's blog.

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Well, I’ll be off then. Won’t be a minute.
Halloween_Jack

I’m impressed at the chutzpah and moxie displayed by marketers who thought of charging louts between $49 and $99 (in what I assume are mid-1970s dollars) for what amounts to a single-woman-repelling field.
- digi_owl
  
  age of aquarius…
johnjohnson

A Google search for Leisure Time Products eventually led me here: http://www.gasblender.com/
- jcostantino
  
  Meh, no thanks… I would much rather have the reliability of electric instead of the fickleness of a 2 cycle blender.
SamSam

Oh man, I was really hoping these were from Mitch McConnell’s blog…
retchdog

the utility of this watch could be improved if it had a cycle of messages: “where’s my bourbon?”, “heineken? fuck that!”, “don’t you fucking look at me!”, “it’s Daddy, you shithead!”, &c.
Guest

About as ‘subtle’ as this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=978uQUK231M&feature=related
http://www.paradea.org/notes/ Teirhan

I now realize it’s a printing / scanning artifact but i spent about 30 seconds staring at the ad on the right trying to figure out if the chick was hairy or if it was a dude wearing lacy briefs.
voiceinthedistance

Even a broken watch is right twice a day.
stuck411

Loved the hunt & seek pictures in Highlight Magazine. Despised the Goofus & Gallant propaganda they had. And ahem, remember this ad from my step-dad’s stash of magazines.
pjcamp

Every 30 seconds? I’m gonna need more coffee.