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Buygone Ad of the Week: The Pun Also Rises
Death pants! Luckily both poet John Donne and Papa Hemingway were long dead before this h.i.s bell bottoms ad took its toll on Western civilization. Pun butcherer Kenneth Cole, were you a teenage freelance copywriter? The copy reads: "Ask not. They're for you...and come in a ring-a-ding assortment of colors and fabrics (including, I guess, the patchwork pictures of food style on the adventurous black man. Slack Power!)...They're definitely becoming a novel (jesus) American great." Much like the Nick Nolte h.i.s jeans ad, we're presented with quite the wide range of maleness here. I like the barrel-chested brown-hair dude's tied-off cloth belt—he's a sensitive stud. But I shouldn't mock; because any of my fellow man's deathly fashion choices diminishes me (sorry John).
Image: |Vintage Ads|
by Copyranter on July 2, 2008
Comments (5)
They all look like Action Figures - could be the cropping, but they look decidedly polyvinylchloridy.
Posted by Rob | July 2, 2008 3:25 PM
no, they look like (left to right) George Takai and Matt Damon. can't place the other two though...
Posted by $ries | July 2, 2008 4:35 PM
L to R: Takei, Damon, Busey, OJ.
Nice (scary) find, 'ranter.
Posted by Jetpacks | July 2, 2008 9:28 PM
Love Busey's "blue steel". Takei looks like he just got goosed.
Posted by K | July 3, 2008 10:44 AM
I think the blond one is Ed Begley, Jr. Maybe it was a bad reaction to those polyester-blend clothes that turned him into an environmentalist.
Posted by trishket | July 3, 2008 10:54 PM