« | Home | Recent Comments | Categories | »

All Time Millennial Award for Maximal Irony

Posted on November 19th, 2009 at 10:42 by John Sinteur in category: News -- Write a comment

[Quote:]

From a sharp-eyed reader comes this ad for Humble Oil (which later merged with Standard to become, yes, Exxon). It may win the All Time Millennial Award for Maximal Irony. It’s from a 1962 edition of Life Magazine, available on Google Books

humble-oil

  1. Turnaround on November 19th, 2009 at 15:23:

    2009 version: Each day Texas Pride pays enough lobbyists to deceive 70 million people.

  2. DC on November 19th, 2009 at 17:34:

    Not so sharp-eyed… Leno featured this ad last Monday in his Headlines skit.

  3. John Sinteur on November 19th, 2009 at 17:36:

    Didn’t know that – Leno hasn’t got many cable channels in Europe that feature him…

  4. DC on November 19th, 2009 at 18:02:

    You aren’t missing much; new show isn’t very good.

  5. Kash on November 19th, 2009 at 19:28:

    Leno’s on TV in Sweden daily… New show is crap.

  6. Kash on November 19th, 2009 at 19:32:

    Matter of fact, about 70% of TV programming in Sweden is American shows.
    http://www.allatvkanaler.se/
    (some show titles are translated to swedish, but you’ll get the picture)

  7. DarkStarr on November 19th, 2009 at 22:34:

    Whole US-TV stinks. Stayed in US 2 weeks and streamed back to home (Germany). Not to ask about how those guys in the US deal with energy. We will run in a catastrophy, I have NO doubt about this.

previous post: Cleaning Up the Clutter Online

next post: Retrograde lunatics behaving like retrograde assholes