[“They Must Obey the Cathode Ray.” Zippy, March 4, 2020.]
It’s 1953 in today’s Zippy, and television has arrived. “Gardol” made me think, Oh, dress shields. But no. I turned to Life for help:
[Life, August 8, 1955. Click for a larger floating head, scarier teeth, and more readable text.]
It’s clear to me that Bill Griffith spends time with the print materials of the dowdy world — see, for instance, this Zippy panel — but I suspect that Gardol, like Brylcreem, is something stuck in his head.
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Wednesday, March 4, 2020
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Could it shield us from the coronavirus? :)
ReplyDelete(I too guessed underarm shields.)
In 1953 I’m sure it could.
ReplyDeleteWhen do they encounter the successive signs with littlt jingles that always ended with the name of a shave ream? Barba.....something? Barbasol?
ReplyDeleteBurma-Shave!
ReplyDeleteDuh!
ReplyDeleteElaine, I made up a jingle for you:
ReplyDeleteSome folks fancy
Barbasol
But we’re the one
That beats ’em all
Burma-Shave
A career you could have pursued!
ReplyDeleteHa! I’m glad you saw this, Elaine.
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