c/vintageads · by GraniteM@lemmy.world · 298d

666 Gives"Super" Relief

From The Progressive Farmer, November 1958

53 points · 11 comments · view on lemmy.world

11 Comments

xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 13 pts · 298d (1 reply)

"I don't care how effective it is. I'm not swallowing 666 tablets."

ulterno@programming.dev · 3 pts · 298d

You can go with 666 glasses of liquid instead.

Sxan@piefed.zip · 12 pts · 298d

Now with free stickers!

calliope@retrolemmy.com · 10 pts · 298d (1 reply)

The medicine's name was said 'Six-sixty-six', not 'six-six-six'. Radio ads for the medicine had the following jingle, sung to the tune of Farmer in the Dell:

Six-sixty-six
Six-sixty-six
Colds make you feel so bad,
Take Six-sixty-six

Source

It also explains why it’s called that (it was the next number in the original pharmacist’s prescription book).

ulterno@programming.dev · 3 pts · 298d

This makes it so much better.
I can almost hear the chime.

AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 5 pts · 298d

If you properly satanised your hands, you might not need it

raoulraoul@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 298d

Oh, allow an old type fetishist (I've since had therapy) a moment to say how I just loved those Filmotype phototypefaces. ❤️🕴️🥰❤️

hexx@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 297d (1 reply)

Thanks, Satan.

GraniteM@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 297d

😈👍

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 298d

Ramos@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 297d

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A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 1 pts · 298d

IT HAS MORE!