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- Aunty Belle
- Aunty Belle is taken from Antebellum, a time of civility and respect fer the foundations of Western Civilization. Y'all can find me rockin' on the porches most days. Be neighborly and come sit a spell. Bring yore dawgs. Mah iced tea is the best, evah.(About yore third visit mah Cracker-speak will become intelligible. I'se sorry iffin' new folks find it odd) We's lighthearted on the Front porch http://abporkrinds.blogspot.com/ so iffin' ya want some high octane debate, jes c'mon around to the Back Porch.http://auntybelles.blogspot.com/
17 comments:
As opposed to the unpleasant pellets? You wonder what some of these guys were thinking.
Happy MM!
No question the side of barns and storage sheds were the genesis of today's billboards.
Seems like my liver is managing okay without these "pellets" ....a word I associate either with weapons , feeds or droppings but not medicines! Brief but interesting as always Belle, I'm up and happy Monday.
Ha! I love some of those old Barn Advertistements you see on the inter-states.
Happy Mute Monday!
I love these old barns too! Great post, short and sweet, all that is needed to know where you were going with it! Happy MM, hope your week is a good one.
Short but sweet! I, too, am wondering about those pleasant pellets. But it's the word "pellet" that's got me scratching my head. Happy MM, Aunty!
Ummmm. I don't think I'll be buying any sort of liver pellets from a barn. But it's funny though!
Happy MM, Anutie!
Weird, right were I live, a bit out though, they have just such a sign and on a barn (though it is much faded). Such an odd place to put an ad, but it is very visible.
Happy Mute Monday!
Barns, the orginal billboards of America. I wonder what was in those pellets? Probably sawdust and chicken droppings.
Happy MM Monday to a busy Aunty.
Interesting.
I believe the fellow who promoted this particular variety of quackery (Ray Vaughn Pierce) was elected as a Congressman.
On the Republican ticket.
In 1879.
Clearly his expertise at selling crap to millions set him up well in that particular party?
Love
A
But I guess he was only, to quote you yourself, on the back porch recently, just one of these great capitalists........
"Capitalism has to be free to be virile. It rewards those who deal with uncertainty, with danger of utter loss, the risk takers- the grand dreamers, the walk tall and think big strides.."
It also, apparently, awarded charlatans.
Still love
A
Falling Off A Log.
“As easy as falling off a log,” is an
old saying. When it was first uttered
nobody knows. Nothing is easier, un-
less it is the taking of a dose of Dr.
Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. These act
like magic. No griping or drenching
follows, as is the case with the old fash-
ioned pills. The relief that follows re-
sembles the action of Nature in her hap-
piest moods; the impulse given to the dor-
mant liver is of the most salutary kind,
and is speedily manifested by the disap-
pearance of all bilious symptoms. Sick
headache, wind on the stomach, pain
through the right side and shoulder-
blade, and yellowness of the skin and
eyeballs are all remedied by the
Pellets.
Source: The Daily Gazette (Xenia, Ohio) Friday 8 April 1892
Aunty Belle,
I got lost in my moment and forgot to ask about the UNethical thing. Well, now I'm calling in my chip.
THanky one an' all, fer these fun comments.
BuzzKill,
eggsactly--what WERE they thinkin'?
Fishy,
me too-sounded like rabbit food to me. But the real idea was adverts on barns--is nothing free of the bombardment?
Troll-Man,
remember the Burma Shave signs?
Pamokc,
sometimes I have to remind folks I can be short-winded! 'Tis a rarity.
Moi,
can we feed the pellets to the Obamatron?
Kmwthay,
heh..reckon' not. Who can blame ya?
Doom,
ha--I used to think "See Rock City" owned every barn in the country.
Boxer-Babe
Mercy knows what was in them thangs--I heered one snake oiler sold "diet" pills wif tape worm eggs in 'em. Oh ya lost weight, but iffin' the salesman din't get back around in a couple of months with the antidote, ya died.
Ardlair,
yep, reckon ole Dr. Pierce followed in the footsteps of that first Republican President, a charlatan to be sure. Why did ya know the first thang Lincoln uttered after he heered of the scuffle at Sumter wuz, "What will happen to my tarrifs?
Yep, he warn't one itty bitty bit concerned fer no black folks. After all, his "emancipation proclamation" only freed slaves in Confederate states, not the Union border states --those black folk remained slaves.
Fer the record, Aunty is an apologist fer Conservative principles, not the Republican party.
Foamy!
Heh...good sleutin'!
Doom,
alrighty, I will git it up on the Back Porch by week's end.
Barn art! Wonderful.
Happy Mute Monday Aunty!
Hiya Auntie! I want to order some liver pills please! Also note my blog, I moved platforms and went public again. Click my ID and come see my pumpkin pie. It was cooked from frozen for Shamu's Dim Sum Sunday, so I presume liver pills will help you recover after you eat a slice.
Good morning Aunty Belle,
It's funny, I find Barn adds interesting and fun to look at, yet I find billboards of ugly and intrusive.
Happy Mute Monday!
see rock city! happy MM aunty.
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