Friday, December 28, 2018
Plug your ears, men!
Think modern cartoons are surreal?
Via American Radio History, Odysseus as seen in 1945.....
This was an ad for Cincinnati Electric, maker of hermetic seals for transformers and modular circuits.
Tag line: Interference can spoil any pickup!
The waterdrop mascot sings:
I'm Mister Amp,
the 'lectric scamp,
for whom dampness has that feeling.
But when I'm dry,
I'm really high,
and I go for FUSITE SEALING.
Nuff said. Or something.
= = = = =
Sidenote 1: Those mermaids are clearly naked, though I suppose you could argue that they are part fish, and fish are permitted to be naked. Before the war, Comstock Laws would have banned this picture firmly and instantly, without any transpecies argumentation. During the war, every sane human understood that fighting men needed relief and release, so Comstockery was suspended. Feminist bluenoses were excluded from polite society.
Now that machine-based bluenoses are back with a murderous vengeance, it will be interesting to see what happens to this picture, especially since I've #keyed it as naked.
Sidenote 2: This is a development Orwell didn't foresee. Winston worked in a porn factory where machines turned out 'romance novels' for the proles. But his censorship work was strictly manual. He decided personally, based on the Party's daily orders, how to Rectify each Crimethink.
Now we've got it backwards. Porn is still (mostly) written by humans, but the censors are automatic.
This was an ad for Cincinnati Electric, maker of hermetic seals for transformers and modular circuits.
Tag line: Interference can spoil any pickup!
The waterdrop mascot sings:
I'm Mister Amp,
the 'lectric scamp,
for whom dampness has that feeling.
But when I'm dry,
I'm really high,
and I go for FUSITE SEALING.
Nuff said. Or something.
= = = = =
Sidenote 1: Those mermaids are clearly naked, though I suppose you could argue that they are part fish, and fish are permitted to be naked. Before the war, Comstock Laws would have banned this picture firmly and instantly, without any transpecies argumentation. During the war, every sane human understood that fighting men needed relief and release, so Comstockery was suspended. Feminist bluenoses were excluded from polite society.
Now that machine-based bluenoses are back with a murderous vengeance, it will be interesting to see what happens to this picture, especially since I've #keyed it as naked.
Sidenote 2: This is a development Orwell didn't foresee. Winston worked in a porn factory where machines turned out 'romance novels' for the proles. But his censorship work was strictly manual. He decided personally, based on the Party's daily orders, how to Rectify each Crimethink.
Now we've got it backwards. Porn is still (mostly) written by humans, but the censors are automatic.Labels: Bemusement, Zero Problems
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