Comments on: Modern political ads are bo-RING

By: Øyvind

Øyvind — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 07:47:00 +0000

Slackers, the bottom of society then and now. Poor slackers.

By: Greg Van Antwerp

Greg Van Antwerp — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:20:00 +0000

These are great. I was more likely to vote for the candidates in the old ads, than the new. I found this ad flyer from 1973 and it even came with a nice gift! They don’t do that anymore… shame.
Take a look:
http://videomartyr.blogspot.com/2012/11/taking-pain-out-of-campaign-advertising.html

By: AlexG55

AlexG55 — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:07:00 +0000

Especially given that the prison in Lancaster, UK, actually was a castle until last year:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancaster_Castle#Gaol

By: Matt Guest

Matt Guest — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:07:00 +0000

I work in Lancaster, PA, and the prison here actually does look like a castle.. http://www.co.lancaster.pa.us/lcprison/site/default.asp
Struck me as pretty odd the first time I saw it, especially since it’s right in the city.

By: jetfx

jetfx — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:05:00 +0000

I’m pretty certain that poster for Ontario farmers was about the Conscription Crisis of 1917, because that is the only time I’m aware Canada had a Unionist government. Also, Bourassa and most of Quebec were deeply opposed to conscription, and it puts the “Pro-German” charge in context.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_Crisis_of_1917

By: Paul Renault

Paul Renault — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:58:00 +0000

I guess that first image’s layout was set with Ventura Publishing ver1.0. It DID have that weird hyphenation module…

By: Jardine

Jardine — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:40:00 +0000

I’m from rural Ontario and I have no idea what the hell that poster is talking about.

Looking on Wikipedia, it seems to be something during World War I about banning teaching in French in Ontario. I guess the slackers mentioned would be francophones in Ontario who wanted to learn in French rather than English.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_17