a Faux Pas

Awful Library Books indeed!  Metafilter user wendell put together a terrific post exploring some of the best posts from the Awful Library Books blog.  One of the better posts included this book with some rather outdated commentary:

Volumes that are so outdated or so outmoded that they no longer belong in a public library.Your grandfather’s Computer Science. Your grandfather’s Rocket Science. Your grandmother’s Feminism.Your great-grandmother’s Pre-Feminism. (And your great-grandfather’s.) Your grandparents’ parents! World Powers that no longer exist! Old predictions that didn’t happen! Bios of people when they were famous for something else! Roller Disco! Books considered crackpot when they were new! Stuff even the Politically Incorrect would think are Just Plain Wrong! And more!
(via Metafilter and Neatorama)

How about these bonus nuggets of advertisements that I’ve scrounged from the internets…
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Housekeeping Monthly – The 1955 version:

Every good woman needs a good spanking:

Lysol is what is missing in your marriage.  Not love:

The answer to this question is “certainly.”  That is, when she can’t work a simple postage machine:

And the age old picture that’s made its round on the web for years:

- Still impressed with the boldness of our grandparents, AFP