On the heels of Kara’s round-up of classic public service announcements, the always entertaining Johnny Wright from YesButNoButYes points us to this series of swine flu PSAs from 1976 (via Adfreak). Has anyone seen any scary ads about our current outbreak?
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This isn’t a PSA really, but I wanted to share with you what I learned about the Swine Flu from the Crazy Lady in front of me in line at CVS in downtown Houston.
First, she had a towel wrapped around her face, just her nose actually, her mouth was not covered. Then she proceeded to tell me about how the Swine Flu is caused by God. “You know what he did in Sodom and Gomorrah. Now we are letting women marry women and men marry men! It is an abomination against God! I ain’t gonna die though, they were out of masks so I found this towel, umm hmm!”
Still no word yet on why the swine flu is most prevalent in Mexico and Texas where gay marriage is not allowed. It is probably a preventative strike.
posted by Witty Nickname on 5-1-2009 at 11:25 am
Get back down to that CVS with a camera. We’ll edit in ominous music and get this on the air tonight.
posted by Jason English on 5-1-2009 at 11:30 am
Oh, this is hilarious.
Thank you so much!
posted by Meri on 5-2-2009 at 3:14 pm
That. Was. Awesome!
posted by Zelda on 5-2-2009 at 8:26 pm