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Aqua Teen Stunt Costs Turner and Agency $2M
evw writes "The NYTimes reports that the Turner Broadcasting System and the ad agency responsible have reached a $2M settlement with the city of Boston and state and federal agencies that treated the light boards placed around the city as an act of terrorism (as covered earlier on /.) Half of the money is to cover direct costs associated with the response. The other $1M goes to 'goodwill funds' that will be used for response training and public outreach."
What were the ad guys thinking when they made this ad? In a country/world full of fears you just don't place boxes with lights in a city. That is asking for troubles...
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Yeah, but wait until they get to the bank:
Mayor Menino: This isn't even a check, it's a bill!
Ignignokt: No it is a check, tell him Err.
Err: It's a bill.
Ignignokt: It's a...! Why the hell are we trying to cash a bill!?
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It may have cost them $2 million, but the amount of coverage (read: free advertising) they got for the upcoming ATHF movie is almost immeasurable.
Seems to me they'll need an immeasurable amount of publicity for the movie, since it doesn't seem like one single person in Boston was able to recognize an ATHF character.
I think it's great to see a media company making a $2m grant for the benefit of the mentally disabled. My apologies to anyone reading this who is genuinely mentally disabled, I can understand your annoyance at being compared with these clowns.
Snopes has an article sourced from AP about 3 Israelis who died as a result from suffocation in a duct tape and plastic sheeted room. Technically they died because their coal burning heat source consumed all of the oxygen, but that probably only changed the length of time before they ran out of air...
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/ducttape.asp
Also, the article summary states that Boston and the feds are treating the sign board debacle as an "Act of terrorism". TFA, uses the term "fears or terrorism". For fuck's sake, can we have a little honesty in the headlines? Pretty please.
And lastly, it's a little bit ironic that the agency responsible for the campaign is called Interference, Inc...
A One that isn't cold, is scarcely a One at all.
Think if the collition forces could have their weapsons replaced with duct tape..
Call the middle east conflict solved
Or be tempted to swerve & hit them with our cars.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
SO, if I fart in a crowded courthouse (or any public place) and the majority of the crowd is convinced that they smell tear gas and create panic, will I be fined and arrested? If so... that really sucks.
It's causing laughter in the US, too.
What freaking idiots. But then Boston has Ted Kennedy and John Kerry as their senators. So it's about the response you would expect...
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Actually I think there was a fairly realistic show about life in a (UK) government office, once. It was called "Yes, Minister"
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This is false,
As a long time resident of Boston, I can tell you that Menino would really say: mumble mumble mumble unicorn mumble mumble
No. That would be silly. But once rigor starts setting in, spraying the joints with WD-40 will make them movable again.
Did you really say 'retarted'? Twice?
Here's my witty comment about a signature. Ha. Ha.
It is kind of funny that someone throwing around the word "retarted" so much managed to make a mistake on almost every line of his post:
You obviousally are a young kid that knows nothing.
facts.
1 - government officials are retarted with IQ's below 100.
2 - Judges are retarted with IQ's below 100.
3 - Panic sells and the above people like to panic.
4 - The above love to punish someone for no real good reason.
5 - go to step 1.
This is in a nutshell government, police and Judicial America. Some of you younger kids try to think otherwise but us that have lived to 40 know better.
Most of your managers, leaders, judges, police are complete and utter idiots. This is a fact of today's society. it rewards the feeble minded that can talk others into giving them power.
the sooner you realize that the world is not run by the geniuses and smart people but by the idiots and morons, the sooner you understand how silly crap like this happens.
Line 1:obviousally -> obviously
Line 2: facts. -> Facts:
Line 3: retarted -> retarded; IQ's -> IQs
Line 4: retarted -> retarded; IQ's -> IQs
Line 8: This is -> This is, ; nutshell -> nutshell, ; police -> police, ; Judicial -> judicial; otherwise -> otherwise, ; us -> we
Line 9: police -> police, ; feeble minded -> feeble-minded ; talk -> convince
Line 10: the -> The , sooner you understand -> sooner you will understand.
Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Proofread your posts before insulting peoples' intelligence.
there's a lot more in Massachusetts than just Boston, right?
You are referring to Rhode Island, right?
Hey, don't tell me terrorist bikers are not an issue in Australia. I've seen both "Mad Max" and "The Road Warrior", so I know what I'm talking about.
...what were they supposed to think? Exactly, they are supposed to think"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." - Unknown
Department of Homeland Security is reporting that calls are flooding in from every major city claiming that there are numerous boxes on every intersection in the country equipped with timed blinking red, yellow, and green lights. DHS reports that this may be a signal to Al Qaeda and has ordered SWAT teams from around the country to dismantle and possibly detonate these devices to insure our public safety. DHS recommends wrapping your entire house in saran wrap and duct tape and using kerosene heaters as a heat source, and to stay indoors until this crisis is over.
Yeah, my karma sucks....but so do the mods.
Duct tape even fixes stupid people.
Well, if you cover their mouth AND nose, it does.
To the writers of ATHF:
Please make an episode where the moonenites plant light-brites on Carl's house and convince him they are bombs.
The moonenites are pretty good and pulling stuff like this. They convinved Shake and Meatwad that some old tires was marijuana, they can convince Carl that some light-brites are bombs. Would be hilarious if they spoofed on this.
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I hope you can see this, because I'm doing it as hard as I can.
I submitted this story last night, and it didn't get posted.
Hey come on. We left for a reason!