Oct 27th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
The Plumber Protects the Health of the Nation
Just a brief moment to say “thanks” to whoever sent this poster to me at the office:
It’s now up on the wall where the ThinkProgress team works:
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October 27th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
I trust you read yesterday’s Doonesbury
October 27th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
I especially like it because for reasons I can’t fathom, the is italicized two out of three times in the sentence.
October 27th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Similar to this — but note that (apart from cropping), the lettering in this version has been redone with a modern font.
October 27th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
he looks like he wants to get into a pipe wrench fight
October 27th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
for reasons I can’t fathom, the is italicized two out of three times in the sentence.
It’s italicized because two out of every three plumbers are Italian. Subtle, no?
October 27th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
I don’t know, looks a little marxist to me.
October 27th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
How did it happen that Democrats mock plumbers and Republicans use them as spokesmen?
Sk
October 27th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
That plumber could protect my health if he wanted to.
October 27th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
To quote Michael O’Hare:
October 27th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Hey — I’ve seen that poster before! I believe it’s an American Standard advertisement.
October 27th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Is he a supersized plumber because he looks a lot bigger than the awestruck crowd? And what’s the contraption at his feet?
he looks like he wants to get into a pipe wrench fight
Maybe, but he is smiling.
October 27th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
OK Stefan, I grant you plumbers have saved more lives than doctors but lets not forget the conspiracy they and the soap makers engaged in. I do give them points for being anti-Bolshevik.
Cultural acceptance of daily bathing was sparked in great measure by an annual “Bath a Day” campaign mounted by the plumbing industry to promote sales of bathtubs and related products. The campaign was originated in 1914 by the old Domestic Engineering magazine. A few years later it was adopted and expanded by the Trade Extension Bureau, forerunner of today’s Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Information Bureau, which came into existence in 1919. The soap industry soon joined in with an allied effort of extensive consumer promotion…
The New York World writer was quite restrained in his enthusiasm compared with an unnamed contractor who penned an article published in Illinois Master Plumber magazine claiming that regular bathing was a useful antidote for Bolshevism! He reasoned that being clean would make the downtrodden feel better about themselves and less liable to rise up against authority.
“If we can spread the gospel of more baths and greater cleanliness,” he wrote, “We will be getting nearer to Godliness and away from the unclean aetheism [sic] of the Bolshevik.” He added, “Let our slogan be ‘Banish Bolshevism By Bathtubs.’”
October 27th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
oops, here’s the Plumbing and Mechanical magazine link for the above.
http://www.pmmag.com/CDA/Articles/History_of_Plumbing/efbf8163a3fc7010VgnVCM100000f932a8c0
October 27th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Yeah, I was actually going to reference that image in the previous threads, but it seemed like a distraction. Glad someone just went ahead and sent you one.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Believe it or not, this actually was up in my former polling place in Los Angeles (a plumbing shop). I thought I recalled it had an NRA badge on it, too (National Recovery Administration, that is, not the National Rifle Association).
October 28th, 2008 at 12:18 am
The state of Texas — which is rather strict in regards to licensing and monitoring plumbers — likes that poster, too.
Libertarian plumbers, on the other hand, are willing to let your toilet tank backflow into your kitchen tap, if that’s what the market demands. As far as John Galt is concerned, there is no such thing as a market for lemons.
October 30th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
I sent it to you. I’m a rep for American Standard and thought you’d get a kick out of it. I never thought the plumbing industry would get such coverage on your site but I found your licensing argument interesting, wrong but interesting and please don’t assume we are all as dumb as “Joe the plumber”. If you want another one I’d be happy to get it for you. -Ed
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