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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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Circumcision is child abuse.
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...
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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.