if I had any sug­ges­tion for what he could do to feel more com­fort­able while taking a daily stroll around the mall. I didn’t have the heart to tell him that even in full Scots regalia, wear­ing a stan­dard issue kilt, that nobody was at much risk of see­ing his lit­tle Scotsman.

Instead, I told him what I’ve told thou­sands of our fine cus­tomers — that, if he was con­cerned about his lit­tle Brave­heart scar­ing the vil­lagers that he should take some of our un-patented, penis reduc­tion pills. They’re the per­fect anti­dote to the prob­lem that he doesn’t have.

Here’s another ad that I pulled out of the micro­fiche.  This one would have run in the woman’s mag­a­zines of the day, like Women’s Day,in the late 1950s.

Grand­dad made most of these ads him­self, since he’d spent years in the adver­tis­ing indus­try in Min­neapo­lis before found­ing PRP.   Cer­tainly they show the social thoughts and mores of the time.  For exam­ple, these days “snoop­ing” would make the pro­tag­o­nist in this ad seem, well, not the best girl­friend mate­r­ial.  But, back in the 1950s nobody would have thought it reflected badly on a poten­tial girlfriend.

There was some cor­re­spon­dence in the folder with this ad, show­ing the dif­fer­ent places grand­dad sought to run it.  In addi­tion to the woman’s mag­a­zines, he occa­sion­ally ran this ad in the news mag­a­zines of the time like Newsweek.

And, back in the day it would have cost grand­dad $380 ( almost $3000 in 2008 dol­lars ) to run this in the back third of Woman’s Day, so it was a num­ber of years before the com­pany had grown large enough to have a rev­enue base to sup­port that.

Word of this prod­uct is get­ting out, and not just here in Amer­ica. For exam­ple, here’s some­thing about us on a span­ish web­site of some kind…

Now, I don’t know what they’re say­ing, but it’s great that we’ve got things like the world wide wed these days. Back in granddad’s day, he pretty much only sold in the U.S., and the notion of folks in Spain or Ger­many even know­ing about the prod­uct would have blown his mind. Why, last month when I was look­ing through the referrer’s logs I saw a huge num­ber of hits from Rus­sia, which would have astounded papa — he died dur­ing the end of the cold war, and never would have thought of them as not being the enemy.

I’m always sad­dened to read about the mis­for­tune of oth­ers.  Today, it was

Steve War­shak and his com­pany, Berke­ley Pre­mium Nutraceu­ti­cals, who may a prod­uct that isn’t a com­peti­tor of ours, but is cer­tainly in the same busi­ness – Enzyte.  You likely know about him from those “Smil­ing Bob” ads on tele­vi­sion.  Steve was just con­victed of mas­sive fraud, and will be going to jail and pay­ing a half bil­lion dol­lar fine.  A half bil­lion dollars!