Re: 1st AD

The locals were rightly stunned, how where they to know that his teasing, artificial, extravagant, banal, theatrical mannerisms were the epitome of 'CAMP'.

Does using an elephant's trunk as a squirting gay phallic symbol constitute cruelty towards animals?

I'm not as moist as I was with yesterdays. However, the first one has the guy with the leaf that thinks he's Jayne Mansfield or something. I dunno. Not as erotic. And the second one has that elephant in there, which made my trunk go down because sex and animals does not mix (unless you're Richard Gere).

CANNON TOWELS - the copywriter must have had a field day with the 'loaded' copy.

See bottom right hand corner of ads:

How to make your towel last longer and stay 'durable' for the duration.

How gay is the queen in that first ad??? How did they get away with this?

That queen IS pretty funny and...hey, that's my Uncle Fess!

As for Jumbo, he unfortunately delivers from the other end, too.

But really, I only pore over these ads to study 1940s-era commercial advertising technique

OH come on, these can't be REAL?
That's just way too... Ah yer joshin'. Can't be?!!! :-)

The natives in the background looked stunned. And the guy in the rear of the boat is definitely in the throes of ecstasy. Is that a head between his legs?

I wish they had ads like this when I was a kid. "Battle-Hot and Swamp-Dirty," indeed!

@K.

Please read the following:

Homosexuality in Commercial Art

The thesis of Bruce Joffe's new book, 'A Hint of Homosexuality', is that such ambiguous 'gay window' or 'gay vague' advertisements have been around almost since the beginning of the last century. His book contains more than 150 ads from the pre-Stonewall era to provide evidence for that claim.

http://www.chicagofreepress.com/node/629

snap me with a wet one!
too bad my dad was in the Rhineland campaign.
they weren't having that much fun.

Yes dorothy,there WAS a time when the straights didn't didn't know what a queer looked like. Now I have to have that book.

The boys had to do something to preoccupy themselves. No woman and all at sea, and if you were in the service in peace time forget about it. I think in Stalag 17 (granted POW camp) basically showed the public that the military at the time did have the Prison Bitch system down pat.

The guy on the far left of the boat... what in the world is he doing?

This:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_iynghTM-fDU/SIKkAE-wsGI/AAAAAAAAEyM/mI95yrQo78E/s320/WW2_cannon_towel_ad.jpg