Something To Pin It On…
Dear Friends: This advertisement is a snapshot of “what was on our minds” in 1967. Mind you, these were before Smiley Faces. But who wears buttons today? Even bumper-stickers are hardly the rage they once were, nor even their putative successor, magnetic car “ribbons.” I have just a few comments…
button #1…at the time, this was one of my favorite ironic sayings…ha ha…much better than #49.
buttons #11, 37, 68, 76…ah, the Tolkien craze…
buttons #12 & 92…and who can forget the “You Don’t Have to be Jewish” fad… a yenta is a busybody, a kvetch is a whiner.
button #23…was for if you really didn’t like LBJ…today, the Secret Service would come and have a chat with you, I think…
button #46…not sure I get this one…a reference to “a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down” perhaps?
button #59…um…oh, right!
button #94…would this be banned today as insensitive to the Holocaust?…unless worn with buttons #12 or 92?
button #106…reminds me of a gag that I believe goes back to Victorian times…Been getting on the side?…Well actually, it’s been so long, I didn’t know they moved it…
WICKED BALLSY
OK, I wear one button a year…around the end of October…
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