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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 2

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Hai Karate is best remembered today for its marketing plan, with a small self-defense instruction booklet sold with each bottle (to help wearers fend off women) and its television ads where a stereotypical nerd covers himself in Hai Karate and is promptly seduced by a female passer-by. All of the spots contained the catch phrase "Be careful how you use it".

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Richland123 said:
Hai Karate is best remembered today for its marketing plan, with a small self-defense instruction booklet sold with each bottle (to help wearers fend off women) and its television ads where a stereotypical nerd covers himself in Hai Karate and is promptly seduced by a female passer-by. All of the spots contained the catch phrase "Be careful how you use it".

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Those ads used to crack me up every time.

 
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Richland123 said:
Hai Karate is best remembered today for its marketing plan, with a small self-defense instruction booklet sold with each bottle (to help wearers fend off women) and its television ads where a stereotypical nerd covers himself in Hai Karate and is promptly seduced by a female passer-by. All of the spots contained the catch phrase "Be careful how you use it".

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Some Axe (or was it Tag?) body spray commercials remind me of the old Hai Karate commercials.
 
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FilterFunk said:
Some Axe (or was it Tag?) body spray commercials remind me of the old Hai Karate commercials.
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Hate to name drop, but if ya knew the guy you'd appreciate this. Was hanging around Pete Steele for a little while when he was trying to help my band The Nerve out (my guitarist was old friends with him). Was going to meet with him one afternoon and he told me if he didn't answer the door it meant he was in the shower. I said jokingly that that made me a little nervous, didn't really want him greeting me in his bathrobe... and he said, "As long as you're not wearing Hai Karate or Canoe, you'll be fine." Not hilarious in writing, but the guy's timing and delivery were perfect. He was a really funny and cool dude.
 
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Richland123 said:
Hai Karate is best remembered today for its marketing plan, with a small self-defense instruction booklet sold with each bottle (to help wearers fend off women) and its television ads where a stereotypical nerd covers himself in Hai Karate and is promptly seduced by a female passer-by. All of the spots contained the catch phrase "Be careful how you use it".

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In 1977 I was 13 the oldest of three we had to stay at our aunts house for two weeks while our parents were relocating after my dad getting transfered. long story short, my cousin who was 20 at the time wore that stuff...I also remember his bruce lee black light posters, a pair of nunchuks and a '70s playboy puzzle in his room. Pretty cool dude.
 
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Do retailers still give trading stamps these days?

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My mom had a kitchen drawer specifically for stamps, the books to paste them in, and the catalogs showing what was available for full stamp books. Being home from school 'cause you were ill meant afternoons pasting stamp into books while flipping thru the catalogs finding things to redeem them for.
 
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My name is Mudd said:
Do retailers still give trading stamps these days?

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My mom had a kitchen drawer specifically for stamps, the books to paste them in, and the catalogs showing what was available for full stamp books. Being home from school 'cause you were ill meant afternoons pasting stamp into books while flipping thru the catalogs finding things to redeem them for.
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S&H Green Stamps are now S&H Green Points and done electronically. No more licking and sticking.

http://www.greenpoints.com/account/act_default.asp

Here is a 1971 S&H Green Stamps Ideabook

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Locally, we also had Plaid Stamps and other similar stamps.
 
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My name is Mudd said:
Do retailers still give trading stamps these days?

green_stamps.jpg


My mom had a kitchen drawer specifically for stamps, the books to paste them in, and the catalogs showing what was available for full stamp books. Being home from school 'cause you were ill meant afternoons pasting stamp into books while flipping thru the catalogs finding things to redeem them for.
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Anyone remember Black and Brown stamps?

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"The Black and Brown Trading Stamp Corporation was founded by former Oakland Raider receiver Art Powell and featured images of superstar James Brown. The stamps on this page were issued by merchants in Downtown Oakland during the late-1960's and represent an attempt on the part of businesses in the black community to provide incentives to local patrons.
While it is unlikely that anyone ever actually made a down payment on a new sportscar or purchased a home with the booklets (which were redeemable for $3 each), this collection attests to one aspect of revolutionary politics that is as true today as it ever was: Black Power depends upon economic power."
 
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