kokosbolla ([info]kokosbolla) wrote in [info]vintage_ads,
@ 2007-09-17 21:40:00
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   Is this one a real ad??


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[info]wanderius_thrax
2007-09-18 01:48 am UTC (link)
haha, funny.
but surely fake.
i am sure the "soda pop board" would have spelled guaranteed correctly.

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[info]saikaro_x
2007-09-18 01:53 am UTC (link)
goodness!

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[info]misstiajournal
2007-09-18 01:54 am UTC (link)
i bet Britney saw this ad...that's why she put pop in her kid's bottles...

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[info]dragonflycat
2007-09-18 01:57 am UTC (link)
These can't be real. "Hype your babies up on sugar and caffiene, then wonder why they destroy the house, never sleep and become completely unmanageable!"

I wasn't allowed to have soda until age five, one can/bottle a day, on occasion.

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[info]dragonflycat
2007-09-18 02:13 am UTC (link)
I just took a magnified look at the second ad. Definitely 'shopped. The faces are layered in, the text is another layered block and the text rendering is too precise for the supposed era.

Graphic designers at ad agencies do strange things to amuse themselves. I once stumbled upon a website full of this stuff. Too bad I didn't bookmark it.

I remember small sips of 7Up or ginger ale being recommended for kids with upset tummies, but it was usually for toddlers and older.

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[info]heerodiscarded
2007-09-18 02:04 am UTC (link)
Fake.

If you notice the grey/white background near the cola bottle, the space under that 'Promotes Active etc!' and so forth is lighter than the background around it.

This is a classic attempt at photoshopping that is not quite professional enough to fool people who use it enough.

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[info]kokosbolla
2007-09-18 02:11 am UTC (link)
yeah and the wording is too modern too.

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[info]ribald_faggot
2007-09-18 07:28 am UTC (link)
And the font.

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[info]muggleangel
2007-09-18 02:14 am UTC (link)
I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few 'shops in my time.

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[info]imparfait
2007-09-18 02:53 am UTC (link)
I see what they did there.

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(Anonymous)
2007-09-18 09:15 pm UTC (link)
It's a Trap!!!

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[info]piperrhiannon
2007-09-18 05:58 am UTC (link)
That and they misspelled "guaranteed."

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(Anonymous)
2007-11-21 06:16 pm UTC (link)
If you notice the grey/white background near the cola bottle, the space under that 'Promotes Active etc!' and so forth is lighter than the background around it.

Good eye!

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[info]bricology
2007-09-18 03:32 am UTC (link)
It's actually not that much of a stretch. My father was a physician in a San Joaquin Valley farming community and he often saw infants nursing on Coke and Pepsi bottles with nipples fitted to them.

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[info]blamedstarlie
2007-09-18 05:58 am UTC (link)
All through the 80's and nineties - even now, parents seem to think they can just give their kids soda and sugary juices. It drives me nutso as a mom because there are certain people whose kids are friends with my kids and while they do ask if they can have soda, I find it difficult to say no every time.

I was raised alongside two toddlers that where bottle fed pop and juice from day one, then their teeth rotted. Mmmhmmm.

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[info]lord_of_fools
2007-09-18 03:55 am UTC (link)
It has a typo!

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[info]otakuraven
2007-09-18 05:57 am UTC (link)
....that can't be real.

...can it?

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[info]albear
2007-09-18 06:48 am UTC (link)
The "pop" bottle is reversed too.

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[info]bluebellrock
2007-09-18 09:30 am UTC (link)
No chance. There's a highly unlikely typo in 'gauranteed' and a non-convincingly vintage typeface in the main text. The 'COLA' in the header is also suspicious, if only because they probably couldn't match the original font. Also, the text is plain stupid: "and other sugary carbonated beverages right now". Also, which cola company is being promoted here? The back-to-front Coca-Cola bottle?

Fakeness plus.

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[info]bluebellrock
2007-09-18 09:34 am UTC (link)
Oh, the Soda Pop Board of America! Haha.

I believe the 7-Up one could be real.

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[info]rjwhite
2007-09-18 01:17 pm UTC (link)
Yeah- fake. I made it a few years ago for a friend.

Weird to see it pop up at random. Where the heck did you find it?

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[info]kip_w
2007-09-18 03:17 pm UTC (link)
Good enough to cause a double-take! Fix the typo, add a zone number to the address (e.g., "Chicago, 4, Illinois"), attend to the other points, and then... I don't know... go fool somebody, I guess. I got a chuckle from it, anyway.

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[info]greenraven
2007-09-19 12:26 am UTC (link)
I read it all the through and believed it until I hit "gauranteed" and noticed the Coca Cola logo was reversed. Excellent job!

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[info]robyie
2007-10-19 07:20 pm UTC (link)
Excellent! I think it's hilarious I found this through CollegeHumor.com instead of my friends list.

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[info]rjwhite
2007-11-12 07:15 pm UTC (link)
Really? Where? Do you have a link?

Thanks.

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[info]robyie
2007-11-13 03:49 am UTC (link)
I'm searching on their site and can't find it. I know it was featured, though. =)

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[info]dragonfly1867
2008-01-06 06:19 am UTC (link)
I actually found it first on a German blog
http://minderjahr.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-soon-is-too-soon.html

I thought it was real and did a search on it and pulled up this journal entry.

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[info]john_holton
2007-11-13 06:06 pm UTC (link)
The address on W. Hart in Chicago doesn't exist, either. Hart is a one block street that runs north-south.

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Guaranteed?
(Anonymous)
2007-12-06 06:17 pm UTC (link)
Um... I think that's how "guaranteed" is spelled, I think it's correct.

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