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[Wilson Gray]

On Jun 21, 2005, at 12:37 PM, sagehen wrote:

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> There were a lot of these anxiety-producing expressions in ad writing
> in
> those days:
> "Halitosis" (Listerine)
> "B.O." (Lifebuoy)
> "Tattle-tale Gray" (Fels Naptha soap)
> "Pink Toothbrush" (Can't remember who promoted this worry)

Ipana toothpaste (a nonsense rhyme of the day: "Anna, Anna! Get the
Ipana! Mother just bit a wax banana!")

> There was some shaming term for dandruff which I have forgotten,
> promoted
> by Fitch's Shampoo.

The name of the dandruff-producing bacterium: Pittyrosporum(sp.?) ovale

-Wilson Gray

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> Not that the technique began or ended there, but these I remember as
> being
> more or less contemporaneous with "gaposis."
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> A. Murie
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