After yesterday, I’m gunning for the easy laugh today.
Maybe some of you have seen this. (It’s making the email circuits, and I might have been the end of the line. I often am.) Your mothers and grandmothers might even remember it from the evening edition of The (Fill In Your Town) Post, circa 1948. I guarantee you, your fathers and grandfathers have blocked it from memory.
To think, all these years I’ve been spraying Lysol on doorknobs and phones. Huh.
(Men, you might want to look away. Just trust me.)
Because nothing says I want you like eau de disinfectant.
Is anyone else dying to know what the other 5 reasons are?
Ladies, you heard it–take no needless, dangerous chances…
(What’s that sound I hear? Why, I think it’s all of you, printing and clipping this coupon.)
For more information (sorry, I don’t have a link for LESS information, no matter how much you might want one) click over here, where there are 9 other timeless Lysol ads. You know you want to.
Also, I’m supposed to give credit here, to comply with some licensing hooey.
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thank goodness it comes in aerosol now.
Can I just say, “OUCH!!!!!”
OMG, I can’t believe this ad!!! I’m really hoping this was some kind of product just MADE by Lysol, not the real deal that these poor women were flushing up their hoohaas. I’m envisioning scores of women made sterile or worse. Like I said, I’m really, REALLY hoping that this isn’t the same stuff you clean a toilet out with, ya know? Owwwieeee!
I am still laughing at Slow Panic…silly girl. I second Brenda.
That is crazy – what in the world?!? Slow Panic’s comment was hysterical – tee hee!
Have a good day! Kellan
This definitely puts the women’s liberation movement into a new perspective….I mean, now that I can see where the anger came from. Wow.
Anyone remember the Geritol commercials from the 70’s? “My wife – I think I’ll keep her.” Double wow.
I have no words, this astounds me and makes me giggle and part of me thinks that advertising was actually more explicit way back then, there’s something really creepy about these ads. We’ve sort of sterilized our feminine hygiene talk. Today’s ads just seem so tame.
omg can you imagine how BAD THAT WOULD STING?!?!
i’m going to go douche right now
gag. really.
That’s just ewwwww!
Did one one of these a while back and the comments were hilarious. It’s just so sad how many serious injuries and deaths were caused by this ad campaign.
Found your blog via the Hotfessional. Glad I did.
All I can say…I’m disturbed. Very disturbed.
Yikes! Well, I hope it was at least lemon fresh. Because nothing says pie like meringue.
I grew up in the south, and my grandmother was a huge believer in this. I just have to add that she was ill tempered and a bit unstable…maybe it was the Lysol. She also used to swallow Vicks Vaporub.
I’m speechless. And that’s rare for me.
so. totally. DISTURBING!!!!
At last — historians have pinpointed the exact moment the feminist movement was born!
Love your blog and will subscribe.
Okay, just to be clear, women would use Lysol (normal lysol like what I have under the bathroom sink) as a douche? Oh. my. God.
And the ad? The web of indifference? What the hell did she have up there that required LYSOL for God’s sake?
Aghast!