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Beer In Ads #2497: If Seven Men With Seven Wives

December 21, 2017 By Jay Brooks


Thursday’s ad is for Guinness, from 1952. While the best known Guinness ads were undoubtedly the ones created by John Gilroy, Guinness had other creative ads throughout the same period and afterward, too, which are often overlooked. This ad, one of many that used Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, and is a parody of the poem “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” which was originally in Through the Looking-Glass. In this parody, the Guinness-themed poem begins “If seven men … with seven wives,” and is about some couples at the zoo and how seeing the animals is reminding them of Guinness.

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