"Your Choice – 88 Cents Each."
What I like most about ads like these:
![](https://www.progressiveruin.com/images/88cents1.jpg)
…are the little cartoony drawings contained therein. For example:
![](https://www.progressiveruin.com/images/88cents2.jpg)
Wha–? That dog’s not working at all. He’s just hanging around outside the office building, taking yet another smoking break, the shirker.
![](https://www.progressiveruin.com/images/88cents3.jpg)
I’m not sure how happy a real policeman would be about someone passing out fake parking tickets. Unless that’s the prankster in the 88-cent “Impersonate an Officer of the Law” costume, moments before the arrest.
![](https://www.progressiveruin.com/images/88cents4.jpg)
The expression is great…he is dismayed and puzzled by the explosions on his fingertips. “The pinky’s gone nuclear…nuclear!”
![](https://www.progressiveruin.com/images/88cents5.jpg)
This is quite possibly the saddest person alive. He simply can’t believe one of his “friends” pulled this hoary old joke on him. “Did you really blacken the end of a telescope to give me a black eye? Really? …Which of the Little Rascals put you up to this?”
And…hey, wait a second:
![](https://www.progressiveruin.com/images/88centsz.jpg)
…is that the same as one of these? Looks like some of the ten functions may be a little different now.