OT Old WD-40 Add

Walston

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This was an actual ad in 1960 for WD-40. Sure is some handy stuff.


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(quoted from post at 11:32:31 11/26/14) This was an actual ad in 1960 for WD-40. Sure is some handy stuff.

Twenty years ago a neighborhood friend told my Mother-In-Law that putting WD-40 on her arthritic knees would make them feel better. For several years she slept with rags sprayed with WD-40 tied around her knees. She claimed it made them feel much better but she and her house smelled like an oil can. She finally stopped using the WD-40 when I got her a couple cheap copper bracelets for Christmas. She said they worked even better and helped her fingers as well as her knees :roll: All I know is she and the house smelled a lot better....

TOH
 
Well...anything good for tight nuts and a rusty tool will certainly handle arthritic knees.


You knew it was coming....I couldn't resist... It got worse as I read the whole add.
 

I suspect this is akin to pin up calenders. Only hung in hardware stores or tool stores and only men went to hardware stores.
 
(quoted from post at 13:46:25 11/26/14)
I suspect this is akin to pin up calenders. Only hung in hardware stores or tool stores and only men went to hardware stores.

I must confess. On first reading I did not get past the "clever" rusty tool/tight nuts banner and failed to notice the even more suggestive secondary claims.

But my mother-in-law story is the honest truth!!! She swore by (and reeked of) the stuff. My kids who were just young at the time even called her the Tin(wo)man.

TOH
 

I'm pretty sure that I explained my ailments to my doc last month using pretty much the same words.

He called it "getting old"!
 
no "trademark" indications.

if you found this on the "net" it's most likely a fake.

if you actually have proof it is for real then it's way cool.
 

When I posted those photos of my lower link lubrication, I had to chuckle while rephrasing one of my statements about the balls. I had to remove the pronoun "my" for one thing.

I'd better find out what they are really called. :D
 
Just checked with snopes.com and the story is false.
Go to there web site and put in wd 40 in the search
box. Still funny!
 
(quoted from post at 00:45:27 11/27/14) Just checked with snopes.com and the story is false.
Go to there web site and put in wd 40 in the search
box. Still funny!

Oh well, I thought it was funny. This adds to the humor: From Snopes on this specific ad they say is a fake.:

[i:affedb6872]the company still appreciates the humor: after someone shared the photo in question on WD-40's Facebook page, the company simply replied: "AWESOME!!!"[/i:affedb6872]
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/photos/advertisements/wd40ad.asp#vW6Obdzjtjs0eped.99
 
I suspect this is akin to pin up calenders. Only hung in hardware stores or tool stores and only men went to hardware stores.

People will believe anything that they want to believe even with grammatical errors and all!
 

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