Charles Nelson Reilly Has a Tax-Induced Headache

Want to know the true barbarity of tax state? Check out this old Excedrin ad in which Charles Nelson Reilly (!?!?) is reduced to a stammering heap of jelly during a tax audit for claiming that a fur coat he bought for "a m-m-model" is a "legitimate business expense." He "owns a dress line," fer chrissakes.

Everyone feels like a criminal on tax day!

Does Leviathan know no bounds? And does Excedrin really have four (count 'em) ingredients, including an anti-depressant?

Comments

Pro Libertate | April 15, 2008, 12:08pm | #

I bet the anti-depressant is caffeine.

SugarFree | April 15, 2008, 12:12pm | #

EXCEDRIN Coated tablets

Scientific Name
Acetaminophen, aspirin and caffeine tablets

Composition
Each tablet contains:
- Acetaminophen 250mg
- Aspirin 250mg
- Caffeine 65mg.

I'm thinking the 4th ingredient is love.

Kolohe | April 15, 2008, 12:13pm | #

acetaminophen, aspirin and caffine are the three in the current formulation; I wonder what the fourth was?

Kolohe | April 15, 2008, 12:14pm | #

Damn you sugar-free!

um, maybe it's asperteme?

SugarFree | April 15, 2008, 12:19pm | #

Sorry, K.

R C Dean | April 15, 2008, 12:19pm | #

I wonder what the fourth was?

"Coca leaf extract"?

Pro Libertate | April 15, 2008, 12:21pm | #

HFCS?

Qbryzan | April 15, 2008, 12:28pm | #

Codeine?

SugarFree | April 15, 2008, 12:30pm | #

Ah, the joy of google...

Some formulations of Extra Strength Excedrin contain Salicylamide.

And they had a FTC lawsuit over these commercials.

Cab | April 15, 2008, 12:44pm | #

Charles Nelson Reilly gives me a headache.

Guy Montag | April 15, 2008, 1:26pm | #

I wonder how that ad would have played with Paul Lynde instead?

Guy Montag | April 15, 2008, 1:28pm | #

Charles Nelson Reilly gives me a headache.

Lidsville must have been torture for you!

Vanessa | April 15, 2008, 1:33pm | #

Interesting, SugarFree. I've never heard of Salicylamide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salicylamide

SugarFree | April 15, 2008, 2:09pm | #

Vanessa,

Thanks for posting the wiki link. I've got some sort of linking problem w/ H&R. I cut n' paste one thing and then a circular reason.com is substituted. It's odd. And it's not regular so I can't anticipate it.

Stevo Darkly | April 15, 2008, 2:25pm | #

Ah, for the days of yore, when Charles Nelson Reilly strode like a Titan across this land.

Guy Montag | April 15, 2008, 2:31pm | #

SD,

Yea, he really was the Top Hat for a while there.

NoStar | April 16, 2008, 8:18pm | #

I wonder how Charles Nelson Rielly would have played with Paul Lynde?

Or perhaps not.

Jim | April 19, 2008, 5:11pm | #

CNR is no longer with us. And we are much the poorer for it. I weep.