Some interesting PR campaigns/ads in this here twitter thread
https://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian/status/148530782
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from the days of yore
If the individual is depressed …. Benzedrine Sulfate Tablets
DDT …is good for mee!
DDT's an interesting one. Shocking for the environment ofc, but many more have died of malaria since it was banned.
DDT's an interesting one. Shocking for the environment ofc, but many more have died of malaria since it was banned.
At the time of its withdrawal, DDT was pretty much falling out of favour anyway - many pest species had developed significant resistance to it, and newer and more effective insecticides had been developed.
But, hey, the DDT/Malaria thing is still a classic RW canard.
Give me spots on apples, but leave me the birds and bees, pleeeeeease...
Apparently you can get the ‘birds’ by becoming a coal miner.
DDT was initially expected to help eliminate typhus. I think education, bathrooms and washing machines probably did the job in the end. Head lice are notorious for developing resistance to treatments, don't suppose body lice are all that different.
"Smoking a Camel is very much like doing the Dying Swan."
https://tinyurl.com/jarvfhha
The cheese advert would make a good jigsaw puzzle.
#5 Not sure about right wing canard. When I worked as a ecotoxicologist it was used as an example of the cost-benefit of banning things that might be toxic in vitro. No one thought or thinks DDT shouldn't have been banned, well no one sane anyway.
I am glad one of the replies in the thread included that excellent advice about fascinating a woman with a piece of cheese, truly wisdom for the ages.
The cellophane one looks like a quickly photoshopped twitter meme.
fascinating a woman with a piece of cheese
makes me think of a mouse trap.
Made me think of Wallace and Gromit.
as a chat up line, I can think of many many worse approaches than 'look at my lovely cheese'. Once it was backed up by actual lovely cheese.