Ain't That Just Like A Woman

No matter how socially unacceptable and un-PC smoking is, I can't help but adore vintage smoking ads. Maybe it's a big screw you to "The Man" or something in me that's like a 14 year old, when you tell them to do something, they do the opposite. Or maybe I'm just a good ol' fashioned gal who likes her steak, beer and vintage, with a finely-tuned sense of "lighten the hell up already". I love ads from the 1940's and 1950's, with their celebrity spokesmen and glamorous spin (word up, Ronald Reagan & Joan Crawford), while the ads from the 1960's and 70's were blatantly in-your-face with the sleaze (which I do appreciate) and made no apologies for the double entendres. Granted, they didn't paint us broads in a very positive light by being nothing more than just sexy beasts, but come on, since when is that bad?

Enjoy this bizarre collection of vintage late 60's Tiparillo ads. I'll admit I don't quite "get" their message; Is it: Even boring-ass, hit-every-branch-falling-out-of-the-fugly-tree, lame-o nerdy chicks can be hot if they smoke Tiparillos? If that's the case, toss me a Tiparrillo because this nerdy chick wants some skankification. You know, in the good, 1967 kind of way.




I wanna be a slutty violinist.




Now I wanna be a slutty lab tech.




Now I wanna be a slutty dental hygienist.





Now I wanna be a slutty librarian.


I don't know why those ding dang women libbers think these kinds of ads are degrading to women and hold us back in the business world or whateverthehell. Look at all the career choices I've set for myself in the past few seconds, which is quite a feat, you know, being a highly-suggestible dumb ol' girl and all, just from the power of suggestion from an ad. I want to be a violinist, a lab tech, a hygienist AND a librarian~ sure, slutty ones, but isn't it good to have goals?






"Ain't That Just Like A Woman" by Louis Jordan