Bed Bug Murder vintage label

Posted by David Pescovitz, December 20, 2007 2:41 PM | permalink

Images Sinners Images 2007 12 19 Bedbug Murder

At Etsy, cOveTableCuriOsitIEs is selling this beautiful 1920s label from a product called Bed Bug Murder. As the label says, "Bed Bugs are Terrible." It's just $10 and there's only one for sale.
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#1 posted by Raian

, December 20, 2007 3:04 PM

I recently travelled across Canada staying at hotels and hostels. I had encountered bed bugs twice-- one time at a hostel and another time at a hotel. I have to say they are terrible, resilient, little bastards!

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#2 posted by zuzu

, December 20, 2007 3:40 PM

Sold! Download the high resolution scan and make your own. Propers to anyone who vectorizes it and posts the SVG.

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#3 posted by buenoben , December 20, 2007 4:48 PM

I just did a live trace, hope it works :)

bedbugmurder.svg

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#4 posted by rengeek , December 20, 2007 4:48 PM

I bet some band will name themselves "Bed Bug Murder" soon.

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#5 posted by cuvtixo , December 20, 2007 7:51 PM

RAID
KILLS BUGS
DEAD
Its claimed that it was the Beat poet Lew Welch who came up with the advertising slogan "Raid Kills Bugs Dead" while working at agency Foote Cone & Belding. Although many have noted that it is needlessly repetitive (can one kill bugs undead?) It also forms a beautiful mini-haiku.

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#6 posted by cuvtixo , December 20, 2007 8:31 PM

Ooops. Turns out that it actually follows the humorous and often cynical form of Japanese Senryū poetry, not Haiku. Damn you public radio for exposing me as a psuedointellectual!

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#7 posted by Halloween Jack , December 21, 2007 8:41 AM

I shot a bed bug in Reno, just to watch it die.