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phlebas said:
Is that anything like the dreaded safari suit?

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The earliest reference to a 'safari suit' listed in The Oxford English Dictionary[3] is from an American newspaper in 1935. In 1936, author and adventurer Ernest Hemingway designed a 'bush jacket' which was made by Willis & Geiger Outfitters. In 1939, Abercrombie & Fitchadvertised safari jackets, shorts and trousers, of 'coat shirt style' for sports and leisure wear.[4]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_jacket

So that’s where the damn things came from!
 
phlebas said:
I've seen a few ads for it, but I can't say I've noticed anyone drinking it! Someone must be.

#4 is future Australian Prime Minister John Howard
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He's wearing a guayabera shirt.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guayabera
It's a thin line, but a safari jacket is usually heavier material and is meant to be worn over a shirt, while a guayabera is lighter and meant to be worn alone.
For the record: I did own a guayabera shirt. I also did have a leisure suit jacket, but I think I only wore it once or twice and I was maybe 15 at the time.
 
Naraku said:
He's wearing a guayabera shirt.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guayabera
It's a thin line, but a safari jacket is usually heavier material and is meant to be worn over a shirt, while a guayabera is lighter and meant to be worn alone.
For the record: I did own a guayabera shirt. I also did have a leisure suit jacket, but I think I only wore it once or twice and I was maybe 15 at the time.
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I had a couple of guayaberas, picked 'em up in Puerto Rico. It's standard everyday wear down there. :rolleyes:
 
Praefectus Praetorio said:
Using a children's TV character to sell sugar cereal - must be incorrect
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Howdy Doody was my first and still most beloved childhood TV show.
Howdy, Buffalo Bob, Princess SummerFallWinterSpring, Phineas T. Bluster, Clarabell the Clown. Such characters!
And, not the most famous, but the most influential long term:
Chief Thunderthud - Head of the Ooragnak (kangaroo spelled backward - if that isn't politically incorrect, nothing is!) tribe of American Indians. Thunderthud's greeting "Kowabonga!"—a nonsense word that eventually became part of the California surfer culture lexicon.

Underage CFers (Those under 40) you learned it here!
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Yes I remember that show, still have a Howdy Doody marionette on display behind glass. :)
 
Apostate said:
But who the hell is he shooting at? Pancho Villa? :rolleyes:
Had to refresh my memory on that add, first saw it years ago, he was shooting at a gang of cattle rustlers. We still have rustlers to this day only they back up to your property at night and herd the cattle into an 18 wheeler (lorry to British and European folks I'm told), but no I don't have a Tommy gun. :)
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Eulalia said:
As a student of languages, I've naturally studied Polari,
as used by the truly vintage Julian & Sandy -


just what Brexitland needs, a new political party -
Keep Britain Bona!
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I have a to ask. That particular Julian & Sandy routine dates back to when, 1970 or so?
 
From Lileks.com, a 1972 ad.

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"These new freedoms have been declared for you by Liquid Paper Corporation (emphasis mine).

Gee, thanks guys.

But wait! Liquid Paper was invented by a woman, who founded and ran the company that made it, and sold it to Gillette for $47.5 million in 1979, which is $14.9 quintillion in today’s money, and all of that except the "today’s money" crack is true. And which sorta short circuits any incipient male chauvinist piggery in the ad.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Nesmith_Graham

(She was also Mike Nesmith's mom, which I already knew. ;))
 
Apostate said:
From Lileks.com, a 1972 ad.

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"These new freedoms have been declared for you by Liquid Paper Corporation (emphasis mine).

Gee, thanks guys.

But wait! Liquid Paper was invented by a woman, who founded and ran the company that made it, and sold it to Gillette for $47.5 million in 1979, which is $14.9 quintillion in today’s money, and all of that except the "today’s money" crack is true. And which sorta short circuits any incipient male chauvinist piggery in the ad.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Nesmith_Graham

(She was also Mike Nesmith's mom, which I already knew. ;))
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Who is Mike Nesmith???
:doh::facepalm::eek::cool::devil:
 
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