<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeDgIvlonhY&feature=player_embedded#%21> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeDgIvlonhY&feature=player_embedded#! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, > .. so how about you do it-- wasn't stardust this reindeer cornflakes --whatever it is that made the children who walk on air or what what would happen if you would you support me- stronger self-explanatory and you make a difference flat environment like this Christmas Two http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeDgIvlonhY&feature=player_embedded#! <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeDgIvlonhY&feature=player_embedded#!>
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote: > >snip (I just got my magazine page from the 1930s of Santa with a cigarette in his hand, it is my kind of Christmas cheer!) > snip Today the depiction of any character, particularly one that appeals to children, as a smoker of any kind would be shocking and horrifying to politically correct adults and traumatic to their overly-protected children. But back in the Analog Age pipe smoking just seemed like a nice, warm thing that friendly grandfatherly types like Santa do: http://www.advertisingtimes.fr/2010/08/60-publicites-inimaginables-aujou\ rdhui.html <http://www.advertisingtimes.fr/2010/08/60-publicites-inimaginables-aujo\ urdhui.html> The oldest and most bizarre cigarette ad with Santa You've come across seems one from 1919 for a long-gone brand, Murad Turkish Cigarettes. A scary, sinister-looking Santa smokes one through a long holder and claims that the "grown-ups" all wanted Murads for a present. http://izismile.com/2009/06/16/old_ads_40_pics.html <http://izismile.com/2009/06/16/old_ads_40_pics.html> [http://img.izismile.com/img/img2/20090616/bonus//3/old_ads_27.jpg] Alan Hale, Sr. (the Skipper's dad) played a smoking Santa (also using a cigarette holder) in a Chesterfield ad from 1947, offering "lots more smoking pleasure" and "A Hale and Hearty Good wish." Note the nice Christmas cigarette cartons featuring Santa. for Lucky Strike, too [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KNKNrrvs9Es/THe8OHbRBjI/AAAAAAAAF6M/TnG2Z2ZuM\ zk/s1600/alan-hale-as-santa.jpg] And jolly old Santa himself exhales that smooth, unfiltered smoke from a Pall Mall without bothering with a cigarette holder, guarding against throat-scratch, in a 1950 magazine ad. [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KNKNrrvs9Es/THe8h3JnkQI/AAAAAAAAF6c/x_ofKJq0x\ gg/s320/odd_santa_ads_8.jpg] Santa reading your post "curtisdeltablues" : [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LKxUIX0W1G0/TRbwErTFdUI/AAAAAAAAAMw/gcONH509n\ Oc/s320/38430b.jpg] but hold on hold on there is a solution: [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KNKNrrvs9Es/THfMypPYUZI/AAAAAAAAGBg/fY-ca0o6n\ sM/s1600/arrow_shirts_xmas_06.JPG] The buttonholes, the sizing, the facing, the characters Printed in black on neckband and tail. The shape, The label, the labor, the color, the shade. The shirt. touches his neck and smooths over his back. It slides down his sides. It even goes down below his belt— down into his pants. Lucky shirt. PS plead forgiveness for snipping as always the better and "blessed" are left out... [:D]
