erik lundegaard

Friday July 26, 2013

Four Inches Longer

Woman shopping for car: It seems so much longer than last year!

Salesman: It is! Nearly four inches longer in some models.

Woman (sitting behind the wheel): Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

-- from Adam Curtis' documentary, “Century of Self,” about the 20th-century attempt, by government and business, to control or manipulate the irrational impulses in human beings that Sigmund Freud discovered and/or emphasized in his work.

1950s car ad from Adam Curtis' doc, "The Century of The Self" (2002)

The 1951 Plymouth Orgasmatron.

Posted at 06:45 AM on Friday July 26, 2013 in category Advertisements  
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