The Waldo Ultimatum - a work of genius.

Don’t break out your violins for this gal just yet. All that cruelty poor Cinderella endured at the hands of her overbearing stepmother might have been well deserved. In the oldest versions of the story, the slightly more sinister Cinderella actually kills her first stepmother so her father will marry the housekeeper instead. Guess she wasn’t banking on the housekeeper’s six daughters moving in or that never-ending chore list.

…and several other Fairy Tales that weren’t always so wholesome.

A set of adverts in Germany - ingenious!

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The below image is from a 1950 issue of Popular Mechanics, predicting the heady heights of everyday life in the year 2000. Why this never came to fruition I’ll never know.

“Because everything in her home is waterproof, the housewife of 2000 can do her daily cleaning with a hose.”

As I’ve previously mentioned, I used to love adverts. I went off them as their quality seemingly declined, but still enjoy the odd one here and there that retain some originality. Today I stumbled across one that fits that bill perfectly - of a young footballer’s plight.