Hindsight

Via Popular Science June 1919

“We in America are sternly warned against washing our dirty linen in public, but the people of Bombay do it shamelessly.”

Or you know…white trash billboards.

via Popular Science July 1918

Via Popular Science June 1919

“British submarines are just as large and formidable as German ones, but they are not nearly so well known, for they live respectable submarine lives, while U-boats have made themselves notorious by their wicked deeds.”

“Are you dragging yourself about from day to day, your biliousness showing in your face, your good-for-nothing physical condition in the hang-dog air with which you meet your fellowmen?  Has your wife given up all hope that you will ever get ahead and amount to anything in the world?  Brace up!  You can change that watery fluid in your veins to sparkling red blood.”

Lionel Strongfort was a pioneer in making puny pathetic men feel bad about themselves so they’d pay people to make them feel less like a useless drain on the lives of all their loved ones. Without his foundational work exercise equipment might not be a multi-billion dollar industry, we might never have gotten to see Patrick Swayze’s painfully embarrassing moment on Hanz and Franz, and wonderful characters like Rainer Wolfcastle might never have been fully realized.