Thursday, 6 October 2022

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16 comments:

  1. I remember Madge! None of the others though. But I wonder if I can still get Vi-Rex Violet Rays and Virilase. Do you suppose the Virilase is a suppository?

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    1. From the looks of that "box of tricks" I think the Vi-Rex Violet Rays might be! Jx

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  2. Madge was a bright spot during my childhood. Especially in summer. All hell could be breaking loose, but everything stopped so my mother could watch her stories. Whenever Madge appeared? She made me so happy. Thanks for the memories, and the giggles.

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    1. We never had the adverts over here in the UK, so it's all a mystery to me. Jx

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    2. We had "Mild Green Fairy Liquid" - making an equally daft claim that detergent makes your hands softer...

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  3. I was in the drug store on Boylston St in Back Bay, Boston & POW, Jan Miner walked in and proclaimed something or other, I don't remember. As I turned and saw her, I surely let out a loud OH MY!

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    1. As I commented to Uptonking, I wouldn't recognise her if she was next to me on a bus. I looked her up on Wikipedia, and it seems those adverts were all she was famous for. How sad. Jx

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    2. My encounter would've been in the 80s when, "You're soaking in it" was ubiquitous. Everyone knew who "Madge" was. She was probably appearing in a play, though I see she was born in Boston, so maybe she was visiting?

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    3. Ah, celebrity encounters. They get one all excited - until the first person one tells about it says "Who?!!". Jx

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  4. Dentures and fag breath? Charles Fitzgerald sounds like a catch! Who's going to introduce me?

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    1. Some wag commented on this online: "Worst. Tinder. Profile. Ever." Jx

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  5. I wanted that Nokia so badly! I'm glad I saved my pennies.
    Sx

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    1. I still have a Nokia. It's my only phone. Not that monstrosity, though. Jx

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  6. At first glance I thought the glowing healthy people were in coffins!
    Sx

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    1. Since "violet rays" were basically electrodes attached to various parts of the body, I wouldn't be at all surprised. Jx

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