Charles Nelson Reilly Has a Tax-Induced Headache

Nick Gillespie | April 15, 2008

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

|4.15.08 @ 12:08PM|#

I bet the anti-depressant is caffeine.

|4.15.08 @ 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|4.15.08 @ 12:13PM|#

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

Kolohe|4.15.08 @ 12:14PM|#

Damn you sugar-free!

um, maybe it's asperteme?

|4.15.08 @ 12:19PM|#

Sorry, K.

|4.15.08 @ 12:19PM|#

I wonder what the fourth was?

"Coca leaf extract"?

|4.15.08 @ 12:21PM|#

HFCS?

|4.15.08 @ 12:28PM|#

Codeine?

|4.15.08 @ 12:30PM|#

Ah, the joy of google...

Some formulations of Extra Strength Excedrin contain Salicylamide.

And they had a FTC lawsuit over these commercials.

|4.15.08 @ 12:44PM|#

Charles Nelson Reilly gives me a headache.

Guy Montag|4.15.08 @ 1:26PM|#

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

Guy Montag|4.15.08 @ 1:28PM|#

Charles Nelson Reilly gives me a headache.

Lidsville must have been torture for you!

|4.15.08 @ 1:33PM|#

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

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

|4.15.08 @ 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.

|4.15.08 @ 2:25PM|#

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

Guy Montag|4.15.08 @ 2:31PM|#

SD,

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

NoStar|4.16.08 @ 8:18PM|#

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

Or perhaps not.

|4.19.08 @ 5:11PM|#

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