"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
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I remember that rakish fellow from the Hathaway shirt ads. I wonder if his eye was injured as a result of an overly powerful ejection apparatus on that shotgun.
I remember that ads for Whitmont shirts featured another man with an eyepatch. Seems ours was inspired by yours.
"Sydney, Australia, 1970: Amongst the Mullins, Clarke & Ralph, Macquarie Street clients was E.E.Whitmont & Sons from Blacktown, once the largest shirt maker in the southern hemisphere. Founded in 1911 by German haberdashery peddler Edward Elias Weissberger, his son Cecil ‘borrowed’ the eye patch two years after the Hathaway launch and used it in its advertising and logo up until its closure in 1979."
I'm surprised that Whitmont & Sons didn't get sued for copywrite infringement or something. Oh, wait, I bet I know: their guy wore a patch over his right eye?
maybe he's the grownup kid from the Red Ryder BB gun commercial who was going to get his eye shot out... (wink, wink)
ReplyDeleteHaw! This time, he got a shotgun for Christmas.
DeleteI remember that ads for Whitmont shirts featured another man with an eyepatch. Seems ours was inspired by yours.
ReplyDelete"Sydney, Australia, 1970: Amongst the Mullins, Clarke & Ralph, Macquarie Street clients was E.E.Whitmont & Sons from Blacktown, once the largest shirt maker in the southern hemisphere. Founded in 1911 by German haberdashery peddler Edward Elias Weissberger, his son Cecil ‘borrowed’ the eye patch two years after the Hathaway launch and used it in its advertising and logo up until its closure in 1979."
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I'm surprised that Whitmont & Sons didn't get sued for copywrite infringement or something. Oh, wait, I bet I know: their guy wore a patch over his right eye?
DeleteI wonder if his eye was injured as a result of an overly powerful ejection apparatus on that shotgun.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he's a hunting partner of Dick Cheney?