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Fire the Marketing People

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60 comments on Fire the Marketing People

  1. curlytopnola
    September 23, 2010 at 9:33 am

    really bad product placement.

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  2. hamoza
    September 23, 2010 at 9:33 am

    Yup, that should get the stain right out.

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  3. RuthX
    September 23, 2010 at 9:34 am

    My bajingo just convulsed reading that. Then my uterus curled tighter & rocked from side to side. Damn.

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  4. Buzzkill Crying Glitter Eagle
    September 23, 2010 at 9:35 am

    It’s better than a picture of Joan Crawford beating a small girl with a wire hangar, right? No?

    and yeah, I want to get into the abortion debate with the people that get the semen stains out of my prom dress.

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  5. amyruthanne
    September 23, 2010 at 9:35 am

    Oh god, that creeped me out. Which is not uncommon for this site so I’m not sure what I’m bitching about. ;)

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  6. Marlo
    September 23, 2010 at 9:37 am

    Oh my god. That’s so abhorring that it’s brilliant.

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  7. Buzzkill Crying Glitter Eagle
    September 23, 2010 at 9:38 am

    I think that advertisement should be printed on rifle stocks, hand gun grips, bazookas, and nuclear warheads.

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  8. Oveta
    September 23, 2010 at 9:38 am

    I question whether the marketing people are evil or if they are actually brilliant.

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  9. Buzzkill Crying Glitter Eagle
    September 23, 2010 at 9:39 am

    I think that advertisement should be printed on rifle stocks, hand gun grips, bazookas, and nuclear warheads, the front bumpers of cars, scary amusement park rides, and halloween candy.

    You know, things that actually kill people.

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  10. butterwort
    September 23, 2010 at 9:39 am

    HAHAHA oh my god. That’s amazing.

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  11. captaincavegirl
    September 23, 2010 at 9:40 am

    I can see it now: “Well, I was GOING to use this coat hanger for a shoddy, back-alley abortion, but now that the very hanger I was planning to use has admonished me to choose life, I just feel like a douche.”

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  12. KittyPrawn
    September 23, 2010 at 9:41 am

    Someone already beat me to the Mommy Dearest reference… what a shame.

    But really, they’re just hoping to stop those On-The-Fence back-alley abortionists.

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  13. huck_u_felon
    September 23, 2010 at 9:45 am

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  14. WhyLikeThis
    September 23, 2010 at 9:45 am

    i’m getting mixed signals here…

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  15. fatchissimo
    September 23, 2010 at 9:46 am

    Do people still use hangers? That’s so old school.

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  16. rumi monger
    September 23, 2010 at 9:46 am

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  17. WhyLikeThis
    September 23, 2010 at 9:49 am

    i thought my “no smoking” themed ashtray was great found object art.

    silly me!

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  18. piperanasazi
    September 23, 2010 at 9:50 am

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  19. Marlo
    September 23, 2010 at 9:55 am

    NO
    WIRE
    HANGERS
    EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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  20. RuthX
    September 23, 2010 at 9:56 am

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  21. knittin-kitten
    September 23, 2010 at 10:04 am

    These people are the reason I never leave the West coast.

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  22. and Stretch65 as “The Count”
    September 23, 2010 at 10:04 am

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  23. whimsicalisthenics
    September 23, 2010 at 10:10 am

    Buzzkill, don’t forget all items used for capital punishment.

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  24. Buzzkill Crying Glitter Eagle
    September 23, 2010 at 10:11 am

    Excuse the poor photoshopping, but my lunch hour is over already.

    http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz74/voxwoman/stuff/REGRETSY.png

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  25. steviesegel
    September 23, 2010 at 10:11 am

    That’s like putting an anti-obesity ad on a Big Mac combo, no?

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  26. Buzzkill Crying Glitter Eagle
    September 23, 2010 at 10:13 am

    #22 whimiscalistehnics, well, I am limited to 550 characters.

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  27. JillHannah
    September 23, 2010 at 10:17 am

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  28. JillHannah
    September 23, 2010 at 10:18 am

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  29. razberries
    September 23, 2010 at 10:22 am

    Two things come to mind when I see this-
    The scene from “Dirty Dancing” where Penny has the botched abortion.
    The scene where Joan goes batshit crazy on Tina in “Mommie Dearest” (which has been mentioned)
    Think that about covers it ;-)
    Maybe the foam cover was on there to discourage such things…right. It’s like putting Wilford Brimley’s face on a box of powdered donuts- this makes no sense.

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  30. roquelaure
    September 23, 2010 at 10:26 am

    choose life on a wire hanger?! what’s next? are they going to put AA ads on the bathtub gin i get down at the speakeasy?

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  31. SinisterTwist
    September 23, 2010 at 10:27 am

    @11: And here I was going to tell this crack added 12 year old that she should get an abortion, then saw this hanger. Now I’m going to tell her that bringing a new life into her house is a swell idea.

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  32. beeteadubs
    September 23, 2010 at 10:31 am

    its funny because this is from near where i currently live, which is about 30 mins north of cincinnati, OH… now does it suprise anyone that someone from ohio would do something dumb like this?

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  33. greenfuzz
    September 23, 2010 at 10:36 am

    I laughed maniacally at my desk at the office. Then I did this
    http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4792720&l=ab4769b6d2&id=655187293

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  34. purple_peacock
    September 23, 2010 at 10:39 am

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  35. MAG
    September 23, 2010 at 10:56 am

    Other inappropriate Ad Places…
    1. Eat Healthy…McDonalds
    2. Save the Dolphin…Bumble Bee Tuna
    3. Crack Kills…Drywall Compound.

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  36. knittin-kitten
    September 23, 2010 at 10:57 am

    I sincerely doubt the people who decided to share this message with their customers will ever get the irony of where they placed it.

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  37. HelenaHandbasket
    September 23, 2010 at 10:59 am

    It’s like the clarification they put on their plastic coverings “This bag is not a toy”, but more slightly subtle than “This wire hanger is not a heathen medical implement.”

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  38. BillsBayou
    September 23, 2010 at 11:01 am

    Maybe it’s a Pro-Abortion hanger and they meant it to read “Chews Life”.

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  39. trousers rolled
    September 23, 2010 at 11:03 am

    If hanger manufacturers made them so they couldn’t be unravelled into a killing tool then there would be no need for this message.

    I blame the hanger manufacturers!

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  40. butts lol
    September 23, 2010 at 11:11 am

    #32, almost but not quite worth a drive from Detroit. At least Christine O’Donnell will guarantee there aren’t any unseemly stains on my clothing when it comes back.

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  41. Buzzkill Crying Glitter Eagle
    September 23, 2010 at 11:12 am

    Does this mean if I do choose life, I can sue them for encouraging me? (like I could sue them if the life I chose suffocated on an unmarked plastic bag)

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  42. KenriH
    September 23, 2010 at 11:22 am

    this dry cleaner is not a uterus cleaner.

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  43. beeteadubs
    September 23, 2010 at 11:23 am

    also… is this being directed to women by placing it on the drycleaning, assuming a woman would be picking it up?

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  44. Mistletoe
    September 23, 2010 at 11:26 am

    I am just in awe of the stupidity here. I don’t even know where to begin.

    My brain broke.

    The Comic Sans-knockoff font I think was the final straw but I’m not sure.

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  45. JillHannah
    September 23, 2010 at 11:49 am

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  46. spiritwunion
    September 23, 2010 at 11:55 am

    Holy…I smacked my hand over my mouth so hard I think I left a mark.

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  47. LauraTheRed
    September 23, 2010 at 12:03 pm

    You know, I think my DRY CLEANER should spend less time worrying about what comes in and out of my hooha and more time concentrating on getting the wine stain out of my pants. Just a thought.

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  48. Patty got abducted by a Steampunk Alien
    September 23, 2010 at 12:14 pm

    The dry cleaner wants us to choose life because they know where we’re going to bring the comforter and linens after we’re done.

    *I know, bad. Very bad*

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  49. butts lol
    September 23, 2010 at 12:22 pm

    #48, and the bridal gear after the shotgun wedding…

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  50. Listyfox
    September 23, 2010 at 12:44 pm

    My thought process:

    Hm.

    Huh?

    Wha?

    Oh.

    Ooooh.

    Ooooooooooh.

    Whimper.

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  51. and Stretch65 as “The Count”
    September 23, 2010 at 12:53 pm

    …only worse ad placement I guess would be on the packaging of a Shop-Vac…

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  52. Content Chick
    September 23, 2010 at 2:46 pm

    Why does it always have to be Cincinnati? Sigh. I have to go on the record to say we’re not all like this.

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  53. al_frank2000
    September 23, 2010 at 2:50 pm

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  54. and Stretch65 as “The Count”
    September 23, 2010 at 2:55 pm

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  55. invaderhorizongreen
    September 23, 2010 at 3:33 pm

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  56. jecca
    September 23, 2010 at 4:03 pm

    Well, if the goal of advertising is to make a company or product memorable… It sure as hell worked.
    I will never be able to forget about Springdale Cleaners for the rest of my life.

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  57. Lola
    September 23, 2010 at 8:38 pm

    “Choose Life — choose a licensed medical professional!”

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  58. sticksandtunes
    September 23, 2010 at 11:08 pm

    I always naively presumed that if people were going to do a back alley abortion, they’d bring a wire coathanger from home instead of raiding the nearest dry cleaners. Apparently I was wrong.

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  59. sheltiepitbullfun
    September 25, 2010 at 11:29 pm

    I hope no desperate young person reads about this coat hanger thing and thinks its an awesome idea–if you look at anatomy diagrams there isn’t a straight line from outside the body through the cervix to the fetus, in fact it is a tiny passageway that’s at an odd angle so trying to stick a coat hanger or any other straight object up there is way more likely to cause yourself severe, life-threatening bleeding than accomplish an abortion.

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  60. rumi monger
    September 26, 2010 at 8:02 pm

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