Big Worlds On Small Screens & Fantasy/Sci-Fi Films You’ve Probably Never Heard Of: Rebecca Fisher Discusses “Safety Not Guaranteed”

~ by Rebecca Fisher

In 1997, the following advertisement appeared in the classified section of the Backwoods Home Magazine:

The true story behind the ad is simply that magazine employee John Silveira was asked by his publisher for something extra to fill up the classified pages. He duly obliged, perhaps thinking his little joke would go unnoticed, or be dismissed as a scam.

But a few years later, after the advertisement made its way onto the internet, it exploded into a fully-fledged meme. As Si...