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From the Cass City Chronicle (Michigan), September 10, 1926:

Please pick what sentence you'd like our 'ad story' to start with on thursday.....this is the ad that our story is starting with...whatever starting sentence gets the most vote is the one i will start the story with thursday morning with this ad! :)



1. Hall & Oates got into their Fiero and drove off into the sunset towards....

2. After this photo shoot Hall & Oates decided to....

3. Once upon a time there were two mythical men named Hall & Oates with a magic Fiero and....

4. It was a dark and stormy night as Hall and Oates drove the cherry red Fiero down the road to...

5. "Let's stop here," John said. "I need to buy...

6. After Darryl hit John with the car, he had an unusual way to fix his injuries. He..

7. Hall and Oates were lounging around one day, until they saw something that caused them to position themselves in that position.. It was..

8. In a futile effort to make the red Pontiac appear larger, the photographer relegated lanky Daryl Hall to the back of the tableau and positioned vertically-challenged John Oates on the hood of the car. ...

9. Daryl and John wait casually for you near their fiery Fiero so they can...

10. After the concert, Hall & Oates ask you to ride with them to...

11. "We're Daryl Hall and John Oates, Private Eyes, and we've been watching you..."

Promos of new FOX shows (1990) that star Brad Pitt, Miayim Bialik and Jennifer Aniston:

Did-It, 1946 (DDT, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane)

"The ladies know what's good!" Right, ladies?

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Arrow Shirts, 1952


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Arrow Shirts, 1948

Someone at Arrow Shirts' ad agency had an odd predilection for dismemberment.