Freaky gun-toting kid in a Karo corn syrup ad

Dearie me, that's some freaky illustration in this 1952 Karo corn syrup ad -- that belligerent, half-naked moppet in his Village People cowboy suit is clearly experiencing some kind of blood-sugar rollercoaster as a result of dipping into the product. Someone take his guns away before he does something we all regret.

My cup runneth over - Guns! Guns! Guns!

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Hmmmm. Can you still get Red Dye Number 3 flavored Karo?
- Guest
  
  Looks Red, Tastes Yellow!
  
  (that was a Kool Aid ad from the 90′s)
  - digi_owl
    
    Hmm, yellow. That can be interpreted more then one way i think…
irksome

“They’ll take away my corn-subsidy when they pry it out of my cold, dead fingers.”
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I guess they didn’t have orange tips back then.
- alephxero
  
  No, the reason you don’t see orange tips is because the kids had real revolvers back then.
phisrow

Why does that look more like something that you’d see a SWAT team raiding the NAMBLA headquarters in order to take into protective custody than something you would want to buy corn syrup for?
benher

Executed in the form of the pitiable man-child.
matisse

Liberals: always wanting *someone else* to take the guns away, instead of stepping up to take care of it themselves!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

A few years of consuming the “life supply of Karo” this kid got as part of his modeling fee turned him into THIS.
tylerkaraszewski

Every time I click the picture it takes me to a different page, but the picture never gets big enough to read the text.
Spriggan_Prime

Am I the only one who upon seeing this image instantly thinks Garbage Pail Kids?
InsertFingerHere

This image is probably been viewed by ex-football coaches.
Nicolas Vitiello

Rick Perry.