F'd Ad Fridays: McSploitation advertising

Do you find the really awkwardly targeted funk-era McDonald's ad charming, or painful?

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Although McDonald's efforts to reach diverse American consumers haven't become much less awkward in  the last 40 years.

Found in that 1973 Ebony magazine that just keeps giving...

Oh joy oh joy! A button museum!

I try to keep some of my nerdiness to myself, but I can't contain it any longer: I love vintage novelty buttons.

I used to have a great big collection of them (along with pop bottles, and sundry other crap) that I kept in a drawer. Now I'll have to go looking for them, because the Busy Beaver Button Co. has opened an online Button Museum to show off their own treasures.

I found out about this via Buzzfeed, where Buzzer Jesse McNulty posted a collection of buttons from the sexual revolution.

Here are some highlights:

Man oh man. The collection apparently covers all eras and messaging:

I wonder if they'd be interested in my "Junk Food Junkie" or "Ban The Leg-Hold Trap" classics...

F'd Ad Fridays: It's b-a-a-a-d

Via Vintage Ad Browser

You've got to hand it to the 1970s: Subtlety was just not their thing.

F'd Ad Fridays: The most awkward jingle from the '70s?

This bizarre old RC Cola spot from Australia features an impressively unsingable jingle, "unusual hair", bumcrack and sideboob:



Well, okay then.