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In the 1950's, television ventriloquist Paul Winchell featured a chin face character named Ozwald on his Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney show. In 1961, Berwin Novelties introduced a home version of the character with a "body," pencils for drawing eyes, and a "magic mirror" that turned the image upside down.
Lightbulb jokes are often responses to contemporary events. [14] For example, the lightbulb may not need to be changed at all due to ongoing power outages. [15]The Village Voice held a $200 lightbulb joke contest around the time of the Iran hostage crisis, with the winning joke being: [16]
An example of a Countryball featuring a Polish Countryball. The flipped flag is intentional. Countryballs, also known as Polandball, [a] is a geopolitical satirical art style, genre, and Internet meme, predominantly used in online comics strips in which countries or political entities are personified as balls [b] with eyes, decorated with their national flags.
"Reddy," insisted Louise Bender in 1978, "is the friend of the consumer," adding that urging users to keep their power consumption down was just fulfilling his mission; [23] however, the character's updated image was not an easy fit. Reddy Kilowatt had acted as a cheerleader for energy consumption for more than half a century and his ...
Trollface was described by La Tercera as "the father of memes". [4] A bust of Trollface was exhibited at the Mexico City museum Museo del Meme. [13] In March 2012, a viral video showed a banner emblazoned with Trollface and the word "Problem?" being used by fans of the Turkish Second League football team Eskişehirspor to protest a rule change ...
The children's book, Round Trip, by Ann Jonas used ambiguous images in the illustrations, where the reader could read the book front to back normally at first, and then flip it upside down to continue the story and see the pictures in a new perspective. [16]
Kilroy was here is a meme [1] that became popular during World War II, typically seen in graffiti. Its origin is debated, but the phrase and the distinctive accompanying doodle became associated with GIs in the 1940s: a bald-headed man (sometimes depicted as having a few hairs) with a prominent nose peeking over a wall with his fingers ...
An intriguing catchphrase typography upside down invites the reader to rotate the magazine, in which the first names "Michael" or "Peter" are transformed into "Nathalie" or "Alice". [107] [108] In 2015 iSmart's logo on one of its travel chargers went viral because the brand's name turned out to be a natural ambigram that read "+Jews!" upside down.