WRUP: Vintage advertisement for Dr. Farnell’s Neck-Staple System from 1957 edition

    
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by cat stevens

Have you ever been told that you “would lose your head if it were not attached to your neck?” Friends, what happens if your head is not attached to your neck? “A constant problem,” says Mr. R. Pfiffer from Lansing. “I am constantly losing my head and also I am a corpse.” Mrs. T. Willoughby writes in and says, “If I were still among the living my lack of an attached head would be among my greatest distresses.”

But friends, you need no longer fear this malady with Dr. Farnell’s Neck-Staple System! This revolutionary state-of-the-art system jams staples with prongs nine inches long into your neck, ensuring that your head will stay attached under the worst circumstances! Let me demonstrate with my faithful assistant, who – oh, dear, the police have arrived! Friends, do not allow this turn of events to prevent you from having your head firmly attached! Send $27.84 in pesos to Dr. Farnell’s Neck-Staple System, c/o the Oregon State Correctional System, PO Box 555 – wait, let me finish my advertisement! Include your entry for What Are You Playing!

​Andrew Ross (@dengarsw): ​Pokemon Go will need to happen at some point because I barely have time to walk with a 9 hour work day and about a 4-hour commute. Got a console party again and hoping to get some time with Overcooked 2 among some Nintendo games.

Brianna Royce (@nbrianna, blog): I’ll definitely be in Star Wars Galaxies Legends this weekend. Somebody moved in next door to my house, yay! And lately I’ve been making a killing selling fiberplast panels. Armorsmiths? Maybe? I’m not sure, but somebody is coming by every day and buying them all. I need more factories. So yep, I’ll be doing that!

Eliot Lefebvre (@Eliot_Lefebvre, blog): Hard to be sure! It’s going to be a fairly busy weekend going hither and yon, so most of my time will probably be in Granblue Fantasy with a dash of Final Fantasy XIV to cap out and such.

Justin Olivetti (@Sypster, blog): Nothing too fantastically crazy; I’ll just be leveling some more in World of Warcraft and thinking over all of the gaming years that I had in this house before I move next week. Fun fact: When I first moved here, Lord of the Rings Online was a year old and some expansion called Wrath of the Lich King was stirring up all sorts of crazy interest!

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