Frank and Ernest by Thaves for February 27, 2021

We still get a real paper on Sundays, Before Christmas we had to take them out right after reading because of the stink of perfume ads.

I always liked them. At least I liked trying them out. Some were pretty awful and most were very expensive.

I guess the manufacturers make the perfumes extra strong so that they would last from insert, to mail, to you. I stopped subscribing to the offending magazines as the aroma burned by eyes and throat. Most magazine articles these days are hardly discernible from ads. Mostly fluff with pictures intermingled with barely disguised by ads.

The odors are now in the cloud.

I hated those ads because I’m allergic to all perfumes.

I can smell FB from here. (And it’s fragrant all right)

Coming soon online (to a tablet near you) – “There’s an app for that”

“Swipe and Sniff”? (or “Scratch and Smell”)

how about “Tap and Taste”

Coming soon to a computer near you… click and sniff!

Some people are not happy unless they have something to complain about.

Smelly cards. That brings back memories of a time 20 to 30 years ago! Actually, I miss the feel of holding new print magazines in my hands. Do they still make them in some African country? Everything is online now.

Haven’t thought about those in years. For that matter, does anybody still wear perfume???

I get my newspaper online these days and I do miss holding one. It’s just a different feel. Also it’s nice to be able to read it whereever. The way our paper is presented, it’s hard to read on a smaller screen like a phone, tablet, or laptop screen.

Hard to start the fire with a tablet

I would hide the fragrance cards behind the back seat of the work truck. My helpers would say something and I would just look at them and say, “I thought you had been with a french whore.” They never cleaned well enough to find them.

I’ve read they’ve messed with the recipe for Brut Classic.

You can request a magazine subscription without them. But then again, what’s a magazine? LOL

Worked as display ad rep on a major newspaper in the 1960’s. Lots of great reporting with excellent writers, readable ed page, great photos by talented photogs, and a daily subscriber base that covered the state. Local and state events, political news without rabid bias seen today.

Then, in the 1980’s and 1990’s a huge national media conglomerate bought it and a dozen others, and undertook to revise the system in favor of improved efficiencies. They soon went digital, canned a ton of high quality writers et al, and became the platform for media bias from the CEO’s offices, very much similar to the ’Yellow Journalism" of the late 19th-early 20th century. In my view, our local has became a joke as have most others and current broadcast media.

Breaking news? Broken system!

I prefer print magazines. I have access to them online if I should want to share an article, but prefer to dog ear a page to let me know where I left off. I write page numbers on the back that I want to return to if I want to keep an article.

While it may be more efficient, reading a magazine or book online is just not the same….

They always gave me a headache. I’m allergic to everything.

Once upon a time (in the 1950s to be a bit more informative), I opened a small vial of perfume that was given free with a magazine, and let the few drops fall on a cow that was chewing the cud just outside our home. She panicked and took off on a fast gallop as fast as she could.

When are they going to invent scratch and sniff computers?

Never had to put up with scratch-n-sniff in peer-reviewed journals…

I miss the Free Beer samples!

When one of those was pulled from our mailbox, it never came into the house until it went around to the trash bins and was relieved of the stinky inserts. Then it was aired out on the patio table until it was worthy of entering the house.

Annoyed?!!! I grew up in a poor household and that was the ONLY perfume I had access to!!!! :D

Did anyone ever see fragrance strips in magazines for things that aren’t in the perfume/cologne/aftershave category? I remember leafing through a magazine in a doctor’s waiting room once in the 1970’s and coming across a fragrance strip for some brand of gin.

Ulta catalogs are still going strong.

I quit reading magazines. Don’t need them, wife knows everything.