Death of a (Toilet Paper) Salesman

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As Dick Wilson, the man who played Mr. Whipple, left us on Monday for clouds even softer than Charmin’s, it’s hard not to mourn the era he took with him: The era when we loved the ad icons that we later grew to hate, that we later ended up loving again, albeit somewhat ironically, as representatives of a sweeter, more gullible, less perfectionist time.

That era.

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