[Ads-l] summer cold

[Mark Mandel]

My memory is a magnet for music, and I remember the *jingle*, which is
probably not included in text searches, as

A summer cold is a different animal,
A different animal, true.
It gets you in the summer
When you have things to do...   *[or maybe "When you've got..."]*

(Not trying to include the music.)

Mark

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 8:24 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Summer cold lowdown:
> https://globalnews.ca/news/2859151/the-dreaded-summer-cold-explained/
>
> Earliest ex. in GB is 1941.
>
> Based on GB snippets, it looks as though the Contac ads began appearing in
> _Life_" in June, 1967, and were on TV a year later:
>
> Look out! A *summer cold is a different animal*. Because gurgh!—it catches
> you in the summer, when you've got better things to do than sniffle, sneeze
> and be stuffy-nosed. Sure. You can let a summer cold run wild. But why not
> tame it. With Contac. Over 600 "tiny time pills" in each capsule work to
> head off ugly cold miseries all day. Or all night. Get some Contac
> cold-tamers at your pharmacy. And the sooner you sic 'em on your summer
> cold the better.
>
>
> I don't see the TV ad on YouTube.
>
> JL
>
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 10:54 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > summer cold
> >
> > In my family, "summer cold" was the term for "hay fever/seasonal allergy"
> > and it was considered to be a literal cold, just like any other cold. I
> > noticed that I got "summer colds" at various times of year from spring to
> > fall, depending on where I happened to be living - midsummer in East
> Texas,
> > late fall in Northern California, early spring through early fall in
> > Eastern Massachusetts, etc. "Terrible" is the apt qualifier.
> >
> > IAC, I was in my early forties before I discovered the miracle of the
> > antihistamine.
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Jonathan Lighter <
> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
> > >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Transparent, to be sure, but possibly worth a mention since it suggests
> > > that it's worse than a common cold.
> > >
> > > Some will recall the Contac commercials (ca1970?) that declared "A
> summer
> > > cold is a different animal!"
> > >
> > > In the 1932 movie "The Purchase Price," Barbara Stanwyck tells George
> > > Brent, "You've caught one of those terrible summer colds."
> > >
> > > JL
> > >
> > >
> > >
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