Kitchen Retro

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My Chemical Mitt Romance

Posted by Lidian on August 13, 2008

LHJ Apr 1945 Chemical Mitt

For people who are just sick of soap, bored with Bon Ami – hate the sight of seismotite. What you need is a Chemical Mitt!

It is apparently a mitt loaded with – well, chemicals. What sort of chemicals, this little ad does not say. But they are all in there. And they will clean your windows (and your windshield) like – like the Bon Ami, really. Everything will be shiny! And clean! There will be no streaks.

All will be at one with the universe.

But I think you have to be an Agent to get one. A Secret Agent, perhaps. Maybe you can use them when doing battle with the agents over at KAOS (thank you Erica for reminding me of the right spelling!). Or there is a secret camera concealed in the mitt that takes pictures while you pretend to clean windows at the enemies’ hideaway. Even the bad guys hate a dirty streaky window, you know!

Agent 99 (pictured above) knows how to wield the Chemical Mitt. Maxwell Smart, not so much.

Here’s a clip where Maxwell is having trouble with a door:

4 Responses to “My Chemical Mitt Romance”

  1. That mitt is probably loaded with all the chemicals we now know cause cancer! =8-0

  2. Amy said

    I love Maxwell Smart, there’s something about those old tv shows that still have me watching them :-)

  3. Erica said

    Not Chaos — KAOS!!! :) My husband didn’t know how to pronounce that “chay-ose” word for ten years because he watched Get Smart as a young child, and assumed that “kaos” was how it was supposed to be spelled.

  4. Bill said

    Does anyone know the phrase that KAOS represented? Something Soviet & Cold War, I imagine.

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