Publications and ads we'd like to see

[Spankypants2]

A "what-might-have-been" ad. Our grateful thanks to Mary Beth Sanford for inventing Gerber teen-size plastic pants which provide the basis for this purported advertisement. Back then when you wore diapers and plastic pants under your "jammies" there was no disguising them!

[gunrunner]

  Spankypants, I can't enlarge it enough to read the add. I know my eyes are old, but even with my glasses on; I still can't read most of it.
I know I have no right to complain, because I have no talent at writing or posting pictures. But please just post what the add reads.
Thank you for time, and PLEASE continue to post these pieces of art.

[Spankypants2]

Gunrunner--Sorry about that. The copy was too dense and the image had to be compressed too much to fit onto the site. To save everyone's eyes, I won't post anything in the future with such small type. Anyway, per your request, here's the copy:

"Johnny's mom takes no chances with her bedwetting 13-year-old! No flimsy, leaky pullups for him! At bedtime Johnny is always pinned into double night diapers so he can sleep through the night without a change. And to make sure he wakes up dry in the morning, he always wears Gerber Teen-Size Plastic Pants over his diapers. When Johnny comes out to say good-night to Mommy's guests, they all know there won't be any wet laps or embarrassing accidents when they pat his bottom and hear the reassuring "crinkle" of the Gerber Plastic Pants he's wearing over his diapers. To properly absorb, diapers need to be thick so everyone can see that Johnny is wearing diapers and plastic pants under his sleepers. Diapers and plastic pants are worn to keep older children dry, not to make a fashion statement! Even though everyone can see that Johnny is wearing diapers and plastic pants, he'll wake up dry and happy--and no leaks!"

I could just imagine someone like Don Draper of "Mad Men" writing up this ad copy for the Gerber account.

[gunrunner]

 :)THANK YOU!

[Spankypants2]

It would be interesting (and welcome) if a few of those "real life" TV high school dramas depicted actual embarrassing events that many of us could relate to. Child psychologists agree one of the most traumatic events is having an "accident" at school and its aftermath.

[Spankypants2]

Two ways to a mother's heart:
1. Give her a box of candy on Mother's Day.
2. Enthusiastically wear whatever she dresses you in.

[Spankypants2]

A boy's best friend is his mother . . .

[gunrunner]

OMG, OMG. You never cease to amaze! Thank you again.

[Spankypants2]

I'm doing a re-post of a previous Post cover to see if the detail shows up better using the program Betty told me about. So, let's see . . .

[Betty]

Wow. I probably wouldn't have compressed it down that far, because I would lose too much quality.

I usually use a quality compression setting of around 75 if it's an almost perfect picture, to keep the same quality as the original. I'll use 70 if I don't mind losing a negligible amount of quality that most people wouldn't notice to save a little more on file sizes. I'll use 60-65 if the original was pretty poor quality to start with... even after I tried to enhance & clean it up.

For the background image here & at stories though, I set the quality at 45... no high quality intended for background images that have to load with every visit.

I don't like to compress images too much so that I lose the quality of the original.