Q for Those 35+?
Fonzie T asked:
Anyone remember 70s tv commercials speed reading courses? Lol!
Anyone remember 70s tv commercials speed reading courses? Lol!
The voice-over promised whiz th huge books jt minutes comprehend all. sd hand literally skimming page.
It insane. Looking now, obviously big, fat scam. (kinda Head-On now) kids, we’d ad ‘Wow!
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Posted on: February 2, 2009
Filed under: As Seen on TV
Reviews (21)
Grace B
February 5th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
i cant anser im not over 35
foodcritic
February 8th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Yes I remember and I have seen advertisements (written) for similar course recently. I wonder if anyone went. Does it really work?
Geaux Tigers!!!
February 11th, 2009 at 6:39 am
No, I don’t recall them from the 70s, but in recent years I have seen them.
Sweetharttt
February 11th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Oh, yeah. I remembered those ads and wished I could master it….
Stuck in HB
February 12th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
I remember the Evelyn Wood Sped Reeding courses from Cheech and Chong!!!! LOL…
jenny2tone
February 15th, 2009 at 6:46 am
yeah, funny how stuff was so much more believeable then …
chase5764
February 16th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Yep, I remember. Thank goodness that as a child, we didn’t have a lot of extra money to blow on this type of thing.
silkytexan
February 17th, 2009 at 5:31 am
Evelyn speed reader…………
Philly
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:17 am
Wasn’t it the Evelyn Wood Speedreading Course
Lt Col Killgore
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:59 pm
I remember
Finish books in just and hour….read the newspaper in just minutes
spork
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:30 pm
o.O
It never ends
the-average-american
February 27th, 2009 at 12:39 am
yeah, I always bugged my parents to get that, and they never did. They told me it was a scam.
serena
February 27th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Wow! I haven’t thought about that commercial in years!! Thanks for the memory!
Mark623112
March 2nd, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Yes.
I never understood why a person would want to read that fast anyway. Where’s the enjoyment in that?
smiley_face_boxers
March 4th, 2009 at 10:39 am
I’m 35+, but the only thing I remeber from the 70’s were the girls in their swimsuits and long, yellow wet banana slides…oh and Lite Brite with the girl next door.
Good times! I actually took the courses and have memorized the entire WWW, I can also see many things with my X-ray Glasses, which I ordered from Boy’s Life magazines, as a scout.
Head on is a scam…OMG!!!
P.S. Becky, I think they failed you…LOL!
Kita
March 5th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Yeah, I remember those commercials!!! I am a sped reder and so can you or something stupid like that.
hmark
March 9th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Evelyn Wood speed reading course, and it was not a scam. It does work, and I do know people who can read scanning a page with comphrehension and can answer questions concerning what they’ve read.
How can you criticize a method that you’ve obviously never taken?
illicit_sandman
March 10th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
They used to do a skit on SNL about that.
Dan Akroyd would quickly sayWelcome to the Evelyn Woodhead sped redding course,and he would just keep on mispronouncing words ,getting faster and faster and more and more sloppy with his pronunciation.
Becky
March 13th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
I do remember that and I high school I took a class in that. I did help. It taught how to focus on certain words. They taught some of us this so it would help us study better.
Gary U
March 16th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Hi Fonzie,
Oh my gosh…how the time flies!
Yes, I remember those commercials.
I wander how our teachers felt about them?….lol.
I also remember Bill Cosby’s Picture Pages.
Yah know, it seems those commercials only came on when we got out of school, rushing home to watch Dark Shawdows or Gilligan’s Island…(I’m Gilligan, I would always yell claiming the character first…lol.)
Yah know Fonzie, I’m gonna do a web search on retro commercials.
Gary
North Carolina
lovnrckets
March 16th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Yeah, Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics or something like that. I wanted to believe it was real. It would have made my life in high school a pleasure. Between that and card counting in BJ, I’d be having a blast.
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