First! Laxatives!

OK, I don’t see how this could be for laxatives at all, but one of these days we’ll all be right!

When in doubt…war bonds.

My first thought was Pitney Bowes mailing machines, but it’s probably something like bowling balls or bear tranquilizers.

BTW, did we EVER find out what made Irritable Bear so irritable? I thought maybe I missed something. Maybe he just had a run-in with Mr. Coffee nerves.

The whistles represent how laxatives works inside you. The stacks of thick envelopes represent that you want to lines up dominoes and push them.

Actually like a cut tree i’m stumped.

You’ve heard of “Air Mail”.

What about its precursor, Rail Mail?

“Train whistle blowing, makes a sleepy noise….”

The US Post Office—send it by rail.

Irritable Bear is irritable due to chronic Irritable Bear Syndrome. This is caused by his/her addiction to all forms of laxatives, having to wear stiletto heels at work, too much use of Bear Nair and the chaffing of his/her’s black leather peek-a-boo bras. If this doesn’t get IBs attention, I don’t know what will

Those are factory whistles (Quitting Time!) and a parade of pay envelopes with employee names on them.

So they are selling….

Payroll automation?

“nev-r-tear” Envelopes?

Could be a recruiting poster for Fagin’s school of pickpockets.

Is it Gummint propaganda? (Thanks to the NRA, we’re working!)

Own a piece of a Railroad!

But after buying the Reading, make certain to complete your portfolio buy also purchasing some Pennsylvania, B&O, and Short Line!

Or, Quitting Time! Here’s your severance package. “In these economic times, unemployment insurance makes financial sense”

I think those are payroll envelopes and time whistles. So…direct deposit?

_@_v – EZ-steem envelope openers for *ahem* certain government agencies with a need to have a squint at a lotta peoples mail for the neverending struggle against international communism™

I know this isn’t right, but the first thing that came to mind when I saw this was Disney’s Haunted Mansion.

They’re selling steam whistles. Duh.

….and, I’ll bet, Irritable Bear will tell us Mr. Coffee Nerves was crunchy and tasted good with taco sauce!

jenifersf :
I think those are payroll envelopes and time whistles. So…direct deposit?

That makes sense. Except, if your factory is still relying on time whistles, you’re probably paying employees out of the “payroll office” and with Company Script, at that.

agree pay envelopes.

They are selling rolling pins, the type the wife will use on husband as he staggers home from the bar on pay day.

Factory whistles remind me of the opening credits of the Flintstones… but Fred’s paycheck would have been chipped into a stone tablet by wisecracking bird with a long beak, not in an envelope.

It’s time to mail in your absentee ballot- vote now or we’ll lose “the neverending struggle against international communism™”

The world’s longest accordion! So long that it can’t be held by a mere human, requiring the aid of specialized, steam-powered machinery just to play it. Ah, the wonders of the modern age!

It’s playing a tango. Are cramped bowels keeping you off the dance floor?

“Donate your old steam whistles to the War Effort. The steam generated will open thousands of suspicious envelopes for the FBI.”

jenifersf :
I think those are payroll envelopes and time whistles. So…direct deposit?

All of Lilek’s Out of Context Ads have been 50+ years old, and this one looks like the same vintage. Direct Deposit was almost nonexistent before the 1960s, and I don’t think this ad is that new.

Shirley, agent shesnailie, you could not be refering to the Christians In Action or the Fine Bunch of Investigators, hmmmmmm?@shesnailie

I would guess payroll services or time clocks.

Department store account invoices. Payable each month.

@FreeState
Regarding la affair du Irritable Bear, I propose the Buzzeratti and Bleater Irregulars (heh,heh) unite and, as they say in Ireland, Suivre la Charmin!! Just don’t put agent shesnailie in the lead..unless you bring a copy of War and Peace to read – twice.

FreeState :BTW, did we EVER find out what made Irritable Bear so irritable? I thought maybe I missed something. Maybe he just had a run-in with Mr. Coffee nerves.

Finding out about the source of Irritable Bear’s irritability is about as likely as learning the Official Solution to countless Lance Lawson mysteries.

Which is about as likely as my hitting the Mega-Millions jackpot on Friday.

Maybe it’s a car ad – you know, so you can escape the daily grind, now and then ?

James asks “What the devil are they trying to sell?”

I wonder if that’s a clue. Could it be Underwood Deviled Ham? (”Now in mailable envelopes, so you can send some ham to one of our boys overseas!”)

It’s great to be working again and getting that pay envelope, but remember that our boys are dying over there, kicking Tojo’s tuchas, so buy those war bonds!

Besides, there’s nothing to buy until we go off war production.

Bob

I think it might be something to do with saving for retirement.

it’s factory whistles and time cards… hmmm.. They’re Selling Slavery!

“Remember, Tojo never wore a tie, what’s that tell ya? Work Unpaid Overtime, fight the good fight!” — a message from the National Chambers of Commerce.

Steam-proof envelopes! Just the thing to keep prying eyes out!

Actually, it’s probably life insurance or retirement savings.

Jeff Paul’s Rail Mail Millions!

Receive nickels and dimes in the mail, delivered via US Rail Mail!

(Actual Millions, not included)

If it is pay envelopes and steam whistles, it may be saying how your pay is helping fight the war, or something to do with the Income Tax.

C’mon guys. War Bonds!

Everybody is getting sooo metaphorical! Envelopes full of steam whistles, of course, or maybe steam whistles full of envelopes.

Scent mail??

Leave Irritable Bear alone! Life should have Mysteries.

The famous marching picture frames, or the world’s longest bellows.

Gotta be some kind of insurance-buy our Chartreuse Cross Plan and if some plutocrat’s ten ton press chops off your fingers Ma will still be able to put war-worker size portions of Spam on the table.

@juanito – John Davey
Or act like Warren Buffett and buy a whole damn railroad!

“…with taco sauce.” HA!

Personally, I still want to know what that drawing of IB was from.

And, since shesnailie doesn’t seem to have stopped back to this thread, I’ll do it:
Yes, yes she can. And don’t call her “Shirley”.

1932…

$35 is about $535, $17.50 is about $265 in todays inflated money supply

WHAT!!!??? What do you people want from me?!! You want to understand my motivation?? Come out here in the woods. I’ll show you my motivation!!!

MON DUEX!!!… or as we say in the woods MORE DUCKS!!! The Great IB has returned!! We are save-ed. I am too overcome with lotion, I must retire to my fainting couch