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Saint Fujur, Martyr ([info]luckdragonfujur) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2008-01-14 12:17:00
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Entry tags:they sell a product that causes cancer

Would you please look at what they sell?!
In vintage_ads, the LJ community where people post --wait for it!-- vintage ads, [info]amadoj0nes posts a Camel advertising in an entry titled "Behold, a blatantly vaginophallic product mascot!" complete with the following sentence(s).

They sell a product that causes cancer.
They sell a product that causes cancer.
They sell a product that causes cancer.
They sell..a product... that causes.. cancer.
They sell a motherf*#@ing product that causes CANCER.


Mostly, folks' replies tend to be from the CRY MOAR variety, to which dear [info]amadoj0nes answers by repeating what seems to be his signature:

They sell a product that causes cancer.

They sell.. A product... That causes...Cancer.

Help me out here. Any generation younger than mine takes about 5-6 repetitions in order for obvious things to sink in.

And people keep saying CRY MOAR.


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[info]snacky
2008-01-14 08:07 pm UTC (link)
Thats what made me shake my head in disbelief back in the late 80's when these ads appeared.

In the late 80s, when you were, what? Three years old?

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[info]esclaramonde
2008-01-14 09:20 pm UTC (link)
Oh man, best image ever.

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[info]dez_chan
2008-01-14 09:27 pm UTC (link)
Why would that be shocking? Didn't they only discontinue that character in the early-mid-90's because he was supposed to be marketing to children (and not vaginas, as apparently this fellow thinks)?

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[info]snacky
2008-01-14 09:35 pm UTC (link)
Perhaps because I think three year olds aren't discerning advertising skeptics who would shake their heads in disbelief when seeing print ads of Joe Camel in magazines targeted to adults. Most three years olds are busy with Sesame Street.

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[info]dez_chan
2008-01-14 09:42 pm UTC (link)
Not really what I meant. I meant it hadn't been that long ago since they discontinued that mascot/ad campaign. According to Wikipedia, they only stopped running those ads in '97. It makes little sense for the OP in the wank to freak because the ad in question ran in the 80's when he was around for years after that.

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[info]snacky
2008-01-14 09:46 pm UTC (link)
Huh. I was simply mocking his comment about how he, as a child of 3 or 4 years old, shook his head in disbelief at the ads. I was not questioning the ad's timelines, although I see now that I should have.

Once again, my attempt to make a joke on otf_wank fails miserably.

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[info]llama_treats
2008-01-14 09:57 pm UTC (link)
Joe Camel: Sucking the funny out of life since the late 80s.

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[info]puipui
2008-01-14 10:22 pm UTC (link)
Joe Camel OTF Wank: Sucking the funny out of life since the late 80s 2003-08-11 00:28:48.

Fixed!

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[info]llama_treats
2008-01-14 10:25 pm UTC (link)
Joe Camel/OTF_Wank Sucking OTP!

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[info]dez_chan
2008-01-14 09:59 pm UTC (link)
*pat pat* Is okay. In that case, I also doubt a 3 year old would recognize a vagina, especially a subliminal one.

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[info]wtf
2008-01-15 05:26 am UTC (link)
I still have trouble seeing it. I mean, I see it, but I don't exactly look at him and go "Oh hey, what's up, vagina-nose?"

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[info]sparkysrevenge
2008-01-15 08:20 am UTC (link)
I see the penis/balls suggestion that someone else said instead of vagina-nose. ;)

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[info]shakeandbake
2008-01-14 10:41 pm UTC (link)
attempt to make a joke on otf_wank

This is what happens when you put two things together that just don't belong, like bleach and ammonium, or a rusty nail and your foot.

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[info]ahiru
2008-01-15 04:51 am UTC (link)
Once again, my attempt to make a joke on otf_wank fails miserably.

That's your problem, clearly. Why are you making jokes when you could be making tl;dr posts about Your Thoughts on Smoking, Cancer and/or Joe Camel?

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[info]puipui
2008-01-14 10:29 pm UTC (link)
I can totally picture him looking up from his coloring book, hiking up his training pants, shaking his head and saying "Kids these days." And then sighing deeply and going back to eating all the red crayons.

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[info]smashingstars
2008-01-15 02:04 am UTC (link)
No no, see, the ad campaign went until the mid-1990s, so he was probably almost 10 years old when he was mortally offended by the immoral practices of the tobacco industry's advertising juggernaut. And then he went back to eating all the red Legos.

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[info]shinga
2008-01-15 02:37 am UTC (link)
Three is a tricky age.

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[info]rimrunner
2008-01-15 02:55 am UTC (link)
And a prude, to boot. I thought those ads were fucking funny.

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[info]mad_hatter
2008-01-15 12:50 pm UTC (link)
I have this image of him looking and speaking like Stewie from Family Guy and wearing a monocle and a tweed jacket.

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