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Chicken hotdogs and garters for boys who want to be manly

Mark Frauenfelder at 8:20 am Mon, Dec 3, 2012

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Two fine pieces of vintage ephemera from Mostly Forbidden Zone: A hotdog with the head of a chicken, and one heck of a manly garter for boys.

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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http://www.jimdraws.com Thorzdad

Socks and stockings of the day had no elastic. Thus, mens’ (and boys’) garters to hold them up.
retrojoe

Could the hot dog ad be a little more phallic? My inner child isn’t chuckling hard enough.
- welcomeabored
  
  I too am waiting for a ‘choking the chicken’ joke response.
  - Andrew Singleton
    
    I was thinking more ‘cockdog’ as a marketing name and just started laughing.
Robert Cruickshank

“Cock of the Walk” was rejected as a brand name.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher

Whatever you do don’t go around cross-gartered. Malvolio learned that the hard way.