On the use of the word 'people'....

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...would you prefer kool-aid drinkers? ^_~
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Somebody else thought along similar lines about that particular statement, on a billboard too. Oopsie!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110222/ap_ ... onestown_3
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lol... creepy
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tunnelcat wrote:Oopsie!

Not necessarily. It got people's attention. Even if some of that attention was negative, it was effective marketing. <shrug>

Seems to be a marketing trend lately to do something intentionally provocative. [See: recent Super Bowl commercials]
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double-meaning
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It got some attention all right, but tasteless is still tasteless. Do marketers have a soul even? They lie so much.......... :roll:
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No media is bad media.
As for expressing bad taste, it's just another freedom people need to respect, if not the bad taste itself.
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heh...

bad taste... kool aid...

I see what you did thare >_>
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