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A Foot In The Door

Posted on August 2, 2017 by The Twentieth Man

Putting “a foot in the door” harks back to the days of cold call door-to-door salesmen. Salesmen would knock on residential doors or, if you were wealthy enough to have one, ring the door bell. The housewife would open the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cable Television, Capitalism, Economics, Expository Writing, Mass Media, Observations, Plain English | Tagged A Foot In The Door, Advertising, Brainwashing, Business, Castle, Culture, English, English Composition, Fools, Friends, Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!, Home, King Odysseus, Lassie, Life Alert, Manly Duty, Mass Media, Odysseus, Penelope, Personification, Pop Culture, Propaganda, Relationships, Sales, Status Symbols, Telemachus, Television, Truth, Women | Leave a comment

America’s Love Affair with the Automobile

Posted on May 30, 2017 by The Twentieth Man

An automobile is a big chunk of the False Freedom we all enjoy. Far too many people are caught up in a feed-back loop of buying a car to get to work in order to pay for the car to … Continue reading →

Posted in Capitalism, Dirty Words, Economics, Humor, Observations, Plain English | Tagged Advertising, America, Automobile Insurance, Automobiles, Brad, Breathalyzer, cars, Daily Commute, Dirty Words, Driver's License, Driving Under the Influence, DUI, Economics, False Freedom, Gainful Employment, IDD, Ignition Interlock Device, Insurance, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Life, Love, Money, Television, Women, Work | Leave a comment

The Five-Second Rule

Posted on September 13, 2016 by The Twentieth Man

I suppose you’d have to be an ardent baseball fan to visualize the following: During the Seventh Inning Stretch the Klement’s Sausage mascots hold a foot race. Don’t ask me, I only live here. Klement’s Sausage is a major sponsor … Continue reading →

Posted in Capitalism, Humor, Observations, Short Stories | Tagged "The United States of America", Advertising, American Society for Microbiology, Baseball, Competition, Donald Schaffner, Food Contamination, Klement’s Fine Sausages, Klement’s Sausage, Klement’s Sausage Race, Mascots, Miller Park, Miller Park Stadium, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Brewers, Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Research, Rutgers University, Science, Seventh Inning Stretch, The Five-Second Rule, The Great Sausage Race | Leave a comment

Everybody gets their asphalt from Sherwin

Posted on February 15, 2016 by The Twentieth Man

OK. Just for the Record: This is one of the items on my bucket list. I’ve been scouring Rummage Sales for it for years. It was just a cute little post card sized ad I’d like to have. Years ago … Continue reading →

Posted in Capitalism, Expository Writing, Humor, Observations, Personal History, Short Stories | Tagged Advertising, Asphalt, Bawdy, BS&SM, Bucket List, Business, City of Milwaukee, Dance, Ethnic Dress, German, Going Commando, History, Humor, Inc., Indecent, Music, Naughty, Peek-A-Boo, Polish, Political Correctness, Polka, Post Cards, Potholes, Pronunciation, Propaganda, Racy, Ribald, Risqué, Road Repair, Sex, Sexy, Sherwin Industries, Suggestive, Titillating, Work | Leave a comment

What Do You Mean, Cuckold?

Posted on February 21, 2015 by The Twentieth Man

What do I mean by cuckold? What do I mean by a Cuckold Nation? I should get the Nobel Prize for this. I probably won’t but I still think I deserve one. The Nobel Prize in Economics to be exact. … Continue reading →

Posted in For Feminists, Government, Human Sacrifice, Mass Media, Observations, Politics, The Twentieth Man, Uncategorized | Tagged Advertising, Affirmative Action, America, Capitalism, Cuckold, Cuckoldry, dog-eat-dog capitalists, Economics, Feminism, History, Human Sacrifice, Inheritence, Labor, Labor Economics, Mass Media, Real Estate, Seduction, Sex, Supply and Demand, The Nobel Prize, Trophy Wife, Truth, U. S. Postal Service, Wage Slavery | 2 Comments

The Ear-worm; or Why I Hate Barry Manilow

Posted on February 15, 2015 by The Twentieth Man

1975 was a very good year for some; not so for others. But that takes into account the whole of humanity. In 1975 I was unemployed and living with my brother and his family. I slept on the livingroom couch. … Continue reading →

Posted in Mass Media, Observations, Personal History, The Twentieth Man, Uncategorized | Tagged "The United States of America", ad absurdum, ad infinitum, ad nauseam, Advertising, “Copacabana (At the Copa)”, “Top 40″ Radio, Barry Manilow, Brainwashing, Business, Caveat Emptor, Child Abuse, chutzpah, Desi Arnaz, DJ, DJs, Ear-worm, Enrico Caruso, House Painter, Jingles, Johnny-one-note, Latin, Latin Phrases, long-term memory, Mass Media, Propaganda, Psychology, radio stations, Ricky Ricardo, short-term memory, Truth | 2 Comments

The Hiatus

Posted on October 17, 2014 by The Twentieth Man

Among other things, my stint in the army was also a three-year hiatus from television. Three years is a very long time. A schoolmate rushed into marriage and left a young widow. (That’s why I broke up with a girl … Continue reading →

Posted in For Feminists, Human Sacrifice, Mass Media, Observations, Personal History, Politics, Veterans | Tagged Advertising, Advice, Brainwashing, Culture, Feminism, God, Humanity, Ivan Pavlov, Life, Mass Media, Mental Health, Pop Culture, Programming, Propaganda, Psychology, Sexual Equality, Slogans, Television, The Draft, U. S. Army, War | Leave a comment

The Babysitter

Posted on August 27, 2014 by The Twentieth Man

My father worked many years at a factory on the Second Shift. Because of his schedule, when I was awake he was usually asleep. When he was at work or awake and puttering about the house afterwards I was … Continue reading →

Posted in Dirty Words, Human Sacrifice, Humor, Mass Media, Observations, Personal History, Veterans | Tagged Advertising, Babysitter, Boris Carloff, Brother, Buying the Farm, Childhood, Family, Father, Flying, Life, Love, Movies, Shock Theatre, Siblings, Social Security, Sugar Jets Cereal, Surrogate Father, Television, Television Commercials, The 20th Century, The Advisor, The Aggressors, The Fifties, The Great Depression, The Industrial Revolution, The Korean War, The Mummy, U. S. Army, War, World War I, World War II | 1 Comment

Universal Health Care (Word Problems)

Posted on June 4, 2013 by The Twentieth Man

“I hate word problems!” – a phrase often heard expressing a child’s frustration in many an Elementary School math class. It wasn’t a personal bugaboo of mine however. In Word Problems you’d take a verbal proposition and convert it to … Continue reading →

Posted in Human Sacrifice, Uncategorized | Tagged Advertising, Ben Bernanke, Budget, Civilization, Congress, current-events, Death, Deficit, Doctors, Economics, Extortion, Fear, Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Board, Health, Hysteria, Immortality, Inflation, Insurance, John and Marsha, Language Arts, Magic Beans, Mathematics, patent medicines, Poverty, Professional Sports, Pyramid Scheme, Quack, Quackery, Quacks, Science, Social Security, Statistics, Suggestibility, The Bible, The Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, The Fountain of Youth, Universal Health Care, Word Problems | Leave a comment

Pharmacology – No Apology

Posted on March 24, 2013 by The Twentieth Man

As a student of history I have come to the conclusion that the main ingredient in all patent medicines is and always has been, bullshit. I give you a logical statement: I have never met a doctor whose patients … Continue reading →

Posted in Drugs, Economics, Observations, Uncategorized | Tagged Advertising, Advice, Capitali sm, Culture, Death, Doctors, Drugs, fear of death, Government, Health, History, Hysteria, Hysterics, Inflation, Lies, Life, Logic, Magic Beans, Mass Media, Medicaid, Medical Insurance, Medicare, Medicine, Monopoly, Obamacare, Pain, patent medicines, Pharmacology, Pills, Politics, Society, The Fountain of Youth, Truth | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Advertising

A Foot In The Door

America’s Love Affair with the Automobile

The Five-Second Rule

Everybody gets their asphalt from Sherwin

What Do You Mean, Cuckold?

The Ear-worm; or Why I Hate Barry Manilow

The Hiatus

Pharmacology – No Apology

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