You have GOT to be kidding me?

[Fatty]

Damn, I spent 10 minutes looking for some sort of secret nudie angle like the land-o-lakes girl before I read the link.

[Gadfly]

Hard to believe.  We are very close to the collapse of Civilization.

[Leslie]

Is that NYPost.com part of the New York Post newspaper?  I certainly hope not.  The web page article looked like something from the National Inquirer.  Ripsnort, please tell us you're pulling a fast one on us.

Les

Wait a minute, I'm wrong...was thinking about the New York Times.  Haven't heard of the New York Post before.

[wsnpr]

Originally posted by Elfenwolf
I work in advertising and publishing and I've seen a lot of insensitive thinly veiled references to tragedies (the m&m commercials of the mid-60s where one of the m&m's head turns red was a thinly veiled reference to the Kennedy assasination), but this poster- with the clipped grass and the dragonfly ramming the side of the tower- is one of the sickest things I've ever witnessed. It is obviously a reference to 9-11, at least to the highly trained eye.

 Whoever designed that damn poster should be arrested as a prisoner of war and held in a military brig without trial until we have managed to kill the very last bad guy and developed a world without conflict. Only then should we try our detainees and execute them.

 Now I'm not trying to be presumptuous, but I'd be willing to bet whoever designed that poster has darker skin than we do. And they probably are rooting for a country other than the USA to win the World Cup- most likely Turkey since France has been eliminated.

 Personally I'm so upset with Starbuck's for employing terrorists in their advertising department that I'm organizing a boycott of not only Starbuck's but all coffee product retailers. I know you good Americans will join me in support of a boycott of terrorist coffee depots who cater to yuppies.

LOL!!!!

[Black Sheep]

Land - O - Lakes girl??? do tell Fatty - I think I missed that one

[Leslie]

The Land-O-Lakes girl is an old trick you can make up from the package.  It's a good one too, but not too many folks remember how to do it.  

Would explain how to do it, but Fatty could probably do a better job.  I bet he knows a web site that shows how to do it.

Les

[ZeroPing]

I'd be willing to bet whoever designed that poster has darker skin than we do.

that was wrong.... saying, no WHITE person can do this?

[Tumor]

Yesterday (or was it the day before?) my NCOIC brought Starbucks poster up on the computer and asked about 4 of us if we could see anything wrong with the picture.  After about 5 minutes of us looking for "waldo's" or trying to find the hidin Jesus in the clouds.. he told us there was nothing wrong with the actual picture..  then asked us to simply evaluate the poster and tell us what we thought.  NOBODY thought anything about 9/11 until he brought up the subject.


...funny, now that I think about it, I guess it "could" have been meant that way, however I very seriously doubt anyone would consider it smart advertising.

[Leslie]

It would have been smarter to use bees hovering around the drinks:

"these drinks are sooo sweet, they attract bees."

Seriously-

Starbucks can't win...there's definitely people out to do the 'ol shakedown on Starbucks.  Their only mistake was in advertising posters.  Hate to see this kind of thing happen.  They should have known better.  Am guessing the artist who designed the poster will lose his/her job, along with a lost account for the Ad agency.  And probably the one on Starbucks' end who approved the ad...they'll be fired too.

If it wasn't a bad poster ad before, it is now...there's many ways to look at this, but I think Starbucks did the right thing withdrawing the ad.  Gutless yes, but smart in the long run.  You can't fight public opinion, which is formed by publications like the nypost.com web site.

Les

[Sikboy]

Originally posted by Leslie
The Land-O-Lakes girl is an old trick you can make up from the package.  It's a good one too, but not too many folks remember how to do it.  

Would explain how to do it, but Fatty could probably do a better job.  I bet he knows a web site that shows how to do it.

Les

http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/20bill.htm

This link shows the Land-O-Lakes trick. Pretty cool when you're 9 lol.

-Sikboy

[Elfenwolf]

Sikboy, what do you mean that Land-O-Lakes trick is only cool if you're 9?? I have a properly folded Land-O-Lakes butter container in my wallet.

[midnight Target]

Originally posted by Elfenwolf
Sikboy, what do you mean that Land-O-Lakes trick is only cool if you're 9?? I have a properly folded Land-O-Lakes butter container in my wallet.

Awww man.........get over here and clean up this coffee I spit all over my desk!

[Elfenwolf]

Originally posted by ZeroPing



that was wrong.... saying, no WHITE person can do this?

LOL If that was the only thing you saw wrong in that post then you either skimmed through it or you were high on weed. Have another joint and read it again, hippie.