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Tue Jun 05 2007 22:55 ☞ Dumb FISH.: I'm not sure why some of these are supposed to be funny, but they're all great: "Quaint and Curious Advertisements" of "Ye Olden Time" (Olden even at time of publication).

To be SOLD by
JOHN CROSBY,

LEMMON-TRADER, at the Sign of the Baſket of LEMMONS, at the South-End, Choice good and freſh LISBON LEMMONS, equal to any in Town for goodneſs, and as large in general as Lemmons commonly are, at Four Pounds O.T. per Hundred, and Ten Shillings per ſingle Dozen.

Dec. 19, 1768.

Also great is Steam Trek.

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