Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Nuclear Fallout Never Looked So Happy!

Hello my loyal followers. So, I was browsing google images looking for vintage advertisements, just for giggles, you know? I was very shocked to find several cheery ads for a not-so-cheery subject; Nuclear Armageddon!!! What is it with the fifties and making every little thing, from nuclear holocaust to cleaning ugly linoleum floors, look so unbelievably happy. Here's our first example of horribly happy posters advertising the end of the civilized world. (that was quite a mouthful)

Look at how happy these two ray of sunshines are building their shelter, which will probably end up failing to protect them from the dreadful effects of radiation poisoning. So smile on, you two, because you won't be smiling for much longer.

On that cheerful note, here's our next poster, which proves one very important lesson-

Just because civilization has destroyed itself and the world is possibly irreversably damaged, and your stuck inside of a dark hole in the ground that's about the size of your closet, doesn't mean you can't smile!

Is it curmudgeon-y of me to be so appalled at these people's happiness? I don't think so. Anyhow, who's ready for the third and final poster? This one's especially horrible, as it advertises a celebration of an actual test bombing. Who celebrates that?!

It makes it sound like such a good thing! Well, at least it made me laugh...

Hope you all loved the post, or at least some-what liked it,
Max

3 comments:

  1. I especially like that they celebrate the Atomic test with a cookout. There's a great joke in there somewhere...

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  2. I learned something other than that smiling makes eveything okay (even though it doesn't but they can go right ahead and think that). That curmudgeon is a word. And you aren't one (I had to google it.)

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  3. I'd like to know what Dad (middle picture) is gonna do when he runs out of cigarettes and he can't go out to the corner deli to get more.

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