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Gravestones Advertising Video Games?
An anonymous reader writes "In an insane bid to drum up publicity The Guardian tells of Acclaim Entertainment who are seeking to enlist the help of the recently bereaved, well the poorer ones anyway, to help promote their latest game." My favorite comment is a spokesman for the
Church of England who said they wouldn't allow it saying "There was enough fuss with plastic flowers in churchyards."
Anyway, I just found this really surreal.
"You too can have a body like mine."
I have trouble with passwords among other things.
I think that they should also put ads on the gravestones of first posters...
First I wasn't fast enough to get an advertisement driven PC, then I couldn't get a dot-com to give me a VW Beetle painted with their colours... now I'm too alive to cash in on this...
back to exchanging goods and/or services for money for me
John Smith
born 11/12/1980
fragged 5/15/2002
"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to mourn the loss of Frank Jones, who in his life-time, talketh and layeth the smack down like in WWF Smackdown. While troubles seemed to come his way like chairs at the Undertaker, he handled it gracefully, like those fine manager chicks...."
Fun stuff. Liven up any Eulogy...
JoeLinux
Jesus Christmas!
:: The Few, The Proud, The Linux Hackers.
Why not just embed a fscking LCD screen into the cement tombstone along with a small camera to identify the age/sex of cemetary visitors? I mean, if you'll go low enough to engrave on the damn things, you might as well go one step further and dynamically change your ads to target specific individuals (i.e. 8-year old girl -- show an ad for the latest Mario game; 15-year old boy -- show an ad for the latest shoot-em-up game; etc...).
m o n o l i n u x
You think Slashdotters actually READ these articles? You're new around here, aren't you?
Thats one of those marketing tricks, where the purpose of the whole excercise is to get denied and get in the papers.
Dear ACCLAIM:
Due to your recent marketing on the site of the dead you have lost market share with the living. I will not purchase another product from your company again.
BTW, I really sent this, it will be interesting if the reply
"Get them before they get....
Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust
Our game is a hit
But our ads are a bust
Someone you trust is one of us.
I quite Like the idea of having just a nice simple:
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;)
on my headstone
I didn't think it was possible but I guess you can get lower than spammers!! I think we may have a late entry for the 101 Dumbest Moments In Business!
I stole this Sig
Quoth the Raven, "Everquest".
Don't know why that just popped up...
Karma: Excellent Birds (mostly as a result of listening to Laurie Anderson)
God, please SOMEBODY get this.
A winner is you!
Could politicans use that same loophole to do graveyard advertising? Could I legally replace my great-grandmother's tombstone with one that said, "If I were alive, I'd vote for Nader!"
In Chicago, the tombstone could leave off the first part of that...
SO YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: The Comic for Dealing with Death
I would say that their advertisement goal has been more than met now because of this article. I had never heard of this game and since never frequent cemeteries I would have never seen it. Kinda funny the way the media works sometimes in that we give the people who are wanting to be heard through weirdness even more attention. My mom always said, that if you don't pay attention to these type of people, they'll get discouraged and just go away.