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February 27, 2005 Humor 15 Comments

The Reuters story, Botswana beauty pageant crowns Miss HIV, features an interesting choice of ads to accompany it…

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Update: In case you can’t imagine that there would might be someone who could take offense at the Reuters page; Rightwingsparkle (who found it via Beautiful Atrocities) points out this article about a lady who took offense at seeing a police officer eat a banana.

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15 Comments

  1. Big Bang Hunter February 27, 2005

    – These guys don’t monkey around…..

  2. Paul February 27, 2005

    Oliver Willis is going to have a word with you.

  3. Big Bang Hunter February 27, 2005

    Thanks for the heads up…I’ll be sure to wear my boots…. thought you were supposed to be on hiatus……

  4. BurbankErnie February 27, 2005

    Heh.

  5. Rightwingsparkle February 27, 2005

    Let us hope this woman doesn’t find out about this:

    http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/003632.html

    story via Beautiful Atrocities

  6. Old Coot February 27, 2005

    Kevin: You are in deep doo-doo on this one.

  7. ac halle February 27, 2005

    NYT.
    Everytime.
    Everywhere.
    Print it.
    Is that Sulzbegonia, btw, adjusting his tie?
    Please confirm.

  8. basil February 27, 2005

    So, how’d they get the Columbus GA policeman in the suit?

  9. arb February 27, 2005

    Sometimes a banana is just a banana.

  10. Big Bang Hunter February 27, 2005

    – Ok….if no one else is brave enough to say it I will….. Was the Chimp emcee or third runner up….

  11. Henry February 27, 2005

    Kevin, Paul got that a while ago.

  12. -S- February 28, 2005

    What I find even more remarkable are the ads themselves. I agree about the earlier, all that, but the ads, look at them! TNYT paid for that?!?

  13. -S- February 28, 2005

    I mean, I can’t decide whether the obvious is intended or overlooked by the client. Either way, however, they *work for me*! Ha.

  14. -S- February 28, 2005

    Maybe it’s a New Age sorta thing: eat a lot of potassium and >presto

  15. -S- February 28, 2005

    (Message truncated, earlier, sorry, let me try that again without the markters):

    Maybe it’s a New Age sorta thing: eat a lot of potassium and *presto* HIV just goes away! Maybe the key solution that is being overlooked is that you must EAT A BANANA FROM A MONKEY FROM NEW YORK in order for the magic juju to work! Yeah, that must be it.