"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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>> On 7/21/2016 9:37 AM, The Greatest! wrote:
>>> Nancy Young wrote:
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>>>> Also, I got a nice burn when I accidentally touched oven cleaner
>>>> with my forearm and didn't notice. That is not the oven cleaner's
>>>> fault, but you can keep that caustic stuff. I want nothing to
>>>> do with it.
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>>> Nancy, I was watching an old "To Tell The Truth" episode from early
>> > 1962* on some sub-channel, these are fun to watch because the have
>> > the original ads. There was one for Easy - Off, and back then it was
>> > apparently not a spray, but you *brushed* it on! Came in a glass jar
>> > with a small brush, did not look much larger than a pastry brush.
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>> Holy crap, can you imagine? (laugh) For real, the house would be a
>> smoky mess before I'd get around to that little chore. Just spraying
>> it on was beyond what I was willing to do.
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>> > The housewife - in pearls and heels, natch! - smilingly cleaned her
>> oven,
>> > just in time for her Mad Men hubby's arrival, the ad ended with her
>> > serving them a big steak dinner...
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>> No pressure to be perfect at all!
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>> You see those old Candid Camera shows where people would actually
>> think a sneeze came through the phone? Those people probably
>> believed other housewives were cleaning the oven in a dress and
>> pearls.
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>>> I mean, *brush - on*, geez...!!!
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>> I don't forget how easy I have it. And! if my husband has ring
>> around the collar, he doesn't look at me like it's my fault.
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> Ring around the collar???

When I was a kid, they had commercials on TV and ads in magazines showing a
disgusted housewife, displaying the inside of her husband's dress shirt
collars with a disgusting stain on them that was referred to as that. I
can't remember what miracle product was purported to take care of this mess.
But I do remember time and again, checking my dad's shirts and finding no
such ring. And when I commented on it, my mom said it was because my dad
washed his neck.

I have actually never noticed such marks on anyone's collars so it makes me
wonder if this was just another faux problem that someone dreamed up.
Commercials are loaded with those things. The woman who accidentally dumps
all of her pasta in the sink. The man who can't get the fried egg out of his
skillet no matter what tool he uses. The person who slops the food all over,
trying to open the can. The women who feel embarrassed and not like
themselves because they sure they have feminine odor. Stuff like that.