Some people became too excited with the Queensland Rail etiquette campaign launched in Australia and made their own versions of the company’s posters.

I would like to invite you to browse a selection of vintage posters that made me grimace with horror, turned out a retro advertisers didn’t have high moral ground when involving children. Take a look at these retro ad gems and you’ll catch my drift…

There’s something about the Internet that makes us all feel connected. So much so, in fact, that some of us are convinced that we can simply refer to someone directly online and they’ll somehow just find what ever we’ve written. I suppose it’s possible that if, over the course of your insurance-compensating blowie, that the [...]

Social norms are always changing. For evidence of this, all you would need is an old advertisement for anything, anything at all. It’s like hopping into an inappropriate time machine! Take ties, for example: The mere existence of this tie, this functionless piece of fabric, has enslaved that poor woman for what I can only [...]

Bikes. There okay, I guess. I mean, they’re not terribly exciting. They’re just… bikes. Let the Bike Man change your mind about that: Somehow, he’s managed to zazz bikes up from pedal-powered wheeled things you keep in your garage and never use to ball-busting bikes. Most small-time commercials lack this sort of enthusiasm. That’s why [...]

Off-beat ad campaigns are pretty typical, but Skittles has more or less nailed it with… whatever the hell this is. Just what the hell is this supposed to be? A warning? Does rapid Skittle consumption lead to some sort of reverse Midas Touch, where everything you touch turns to sugar and food coloring? Meanwhile, this [...]

Here’s an ad where not nearly enough test viewings took place. Somewhere, a very creepy man from marketing is laughing his ass off at this tremendous oversight. Sure, it ends innocently enough, but it starts off a little more than odd…

Let’s face it: the 80′s were  a pretty unique time for just about everything. Music, cars, fashion, movies, cartoons, candy, school supplies and anything else you can think of had its own flare that simply can’t be replaced with nostalgia. But somehow the toys got the worst of it. 80′s toys remain as some of [...]