Suddenly it hit me that a lot of you aren’t old enough to remember the Certs Twins. Well, here’s a famous TV commercial featuring that duo–circa 1970 or a little earlier.
“Certs is a candy mint!” “Certs is a breath mint!” They argued about it for years, even though the voice-over guy kept telling them, “Stop! You’re both right.”
Notice the price: 10 cents. Certs are still floating around on the Internet today, but I couldn’t find a firm price. It ain’t a dime anymore, though.
A long-lived ad campaign debuted back in the 1960s. Most of us remember it as “Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.” Even if we never had occasion to try the cereal, it’s easy to remember the commercials with the “cuckoo bird” going positively wild for Cocoa Puffs: like, totally out of control.
I find it difficult to believe that this same spirit has not possessed a great swathe of our fallen world’s movers and shakers, trend-setters and decision-makers. All right, they don’t go caroming off the walls in the Senate Office Building, or swing from the chandeliers in judges’ chambers: but they might as well. It doesn’t get wackier than insisting that men and boys can have periods. You should at least get a bowl of Cocoa Puffs for that.
Were these ads trying to warn us about the people who were ruling us?
I guess we should’ve listened.