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And you know what this means ladies...

If the house isn't clean, the drains aren't running smooth and you haven't attended issues related to your charm and health, your husband probably thinks that you're ugly!
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Unknown said…
That's FUNNY! lol
12 April 2008 at 13:07
Benjamin Madison said…
Love these old ads - they're about as old as me but it's really shocking to read them now and try to remember what it was like when those sentiments were normal. Certainly one of the reasons we've changed is because of the "love generation" - born in the forties and fifties of the last century - that bloomed in the sixties - flower power. There's still lots of hippies left anywhere on the West Coast of North America but Vancouver probably has many more than Victoria. Vancouver has always been more chic or more hip than Victoria. Victoria is also more expensive. Most of the draft dodgers took advantage of an amnesty granted some time after the US withdrawal from VN and went back to the US.
12 April 2008 at 16:49
Ann (MobayDP) said…
ridiculously funny. :o)
13 April 2008 at 04:50
Kris McCracken said…
Benjamin, thanks for the info. I've not been to either, but both Victoria and Vacouver look pretty cool places to 'drop out' in!
14 April 2008 at 08:16
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