Friday FAIL

Some vintage advertisements that are eye-catching, to say the least.

That would probably fit most bottoms too, to provide much-needed relief after a you-know-what.

For those of you who never who are too young to remember the agony and the ecstasy of a Rubik's Cube, take heart. They have started to appear on toy shelves once more.

That's "cigarette" to North Americans.

This isn't really an advertisement, so I'll explain. Long, long ago, in some parts of Canada, it was illegal to sell margarine that was the same colour as butter.  Illiterate shoppers might not be able to read the label, you see, and could pick up a pound of marg by mistake instead of the real thing. So margarine was either pure white or bright orange. (What did colour-blind shoppers do, I wonder?) Some brands of margarine came in sealed plastic bags, with a button of liquid orange dye embedded in the middle. You squeezed the button to release the dye, then massaged the bag for oh, 10-15 minutes until the content was uniformly yellow and looked like butter. Yum, yum!