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Evil Squirrel’s Nest Comic #28 — 11/8/12
Just wanted to let everyone know that I added a summary of most of my main and recurring characters to the menu under my header. Click “Meet the Gang!” to…. well, meet the gang!
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Wake Up And Go To Sleep!
Modern medicine has the cure for almost anything that can ail the human being. Hell, drug company researchers work tirelessly around the clock to invent new disorders they can make pills for. This...
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The Fall Classic
1989 was the year I first began really showing my night owlish tendencies. For that summer, and every summer thereafter until I replaced school with work, I began my habit of staying up all night....
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Where’s The Beef?
In one of my recent Flashback Friday posts on classic condiment ads, I mentioned that I could literally go on forever and ever about some of my favorite classic ad campaigns. It’s true too! I’ve had...
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Wrapped Up Like A Douche
Instant freshness! While there are many different elements one can use in creating a television commeecial, one of the most basic and necessary things it needs to do is describe your product and its...
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Everybody Clap Your Hands!
“Everything that can be invented has been invented” -Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899 There’s no better way to go down in history than to be remembered for a quote that...
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Wait For The Beep!
NOTE: Yes, I know it’s only Monday, but I spent all morning composing this post instead of catching up on my sleep, so I might want to do that tomorrow. Enjoy your weekly trip down the memory lane of...
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You Will… Maybe
Promises, promises…. Note: This is a pretty long post, but hang in there! I have plenty of pictures and my humorous insights to share! For as long as man has had an imagination, he has tried to...
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Totally Hidden Video
One of the elements that makes a certain commercial or ad campaign in general stick out from the crowd is how much it ends up incorporating itself into pop culture. A memorable line can turn into a...
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Performance Enhancing Candy
Baseball, apple pie, and M&M’s. It just doesn’t get more American than that even if you wrap it up in the Stars and Stripes flag made in China. Back in 1985, 2/3 of these elements came together...
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Gonna Make You Sweat!
Much like today, fitness was all the rage in the 80′s. Just go down to the local gym and replace all of the yoga pants, sports bras and tramp stamps with bright colored leotards, spandex, and leg...
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I Just Lost My Appetite…
This commercial is just plain wrong….. Since I don’t watch A&E nor Duck Dynasty (other than being surrounded by all their licensed merchandise every night at Mecca), I would not even know of this...
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The Agony Of Defeat
That’s gonna leave a mark… Big Business got to be big business because by and large, the people who were responsible for running the corporations made very smart decisions. Along with a lot of hard...
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Unsolved Mysteries
Prior to the 1990′s, if you were curious about reading up on a subject, you had to go look it up in your Funk & Wagnalls… or if you were one of those poor families who couldn’t afford a set of...
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Je Suis La Jeune Fille
No, my blog hasn’t been hijacked by Pepe Le Pew or Corporal “Cockroach” LeBeau. But yes, that’s French I’m speaking. And no, this blogger isn’t French, he’s American… and he just stupidly called...
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The Night Is Yours
Brush me. I like to poke a little fun at some of the ads of yesteryear mainly because while they may have seen somewhat normal back when they first aired, they often seemed oddly dated and absurd when...
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Come Together
Candy squirrel. Everything that has ever been invented has a story of how it was discovered behind it, and quite often these stories are more fascinating than the items themselves. Like how Alexander...
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Thickheaded
Huh huh huh!!!!! One of the golden rules of advertising is to paint your product in a positive light. Halls cough drops compares their medicinal effect to a refreshing European sauna. Corona beer...
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Silly Rabbit
I see you drivin’ round town with the Trix I love… Scene: It’s noon on Tuesday at a bar that faces a giant car wash. A rabbit walks in to the nearly empty watering hole and has a seat at the bar…...
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Zomething Zhitty
Add your own electric buzzing sound effects… I think I’ve said this before on my blog, but I don’t drink alcohol. I’ve never drank alcohol. Even when I was in college, I never had anything harder...
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