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remember the Hot dog bathtub ad???

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Anyone know where I can get a copy of this advertisement fast? I threw away all the old issues of my mags. Now I need an advertisement that "could offend some people, not others" for class. I need this by wednesday!!

I'd go to the DZ and try to dig it out of a pile somewhere but I thought this might be easier. Besides, I don't even remember which issue it was.

I was so absolutely, horribly offended by this advertisement that I showed it to my girlfriend immediately. She was so absolutely horribly offended by this advertisement that she laughed hysterically.



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It was an ad for Skydiving Classifieds. Skydiving mag can probably send you a tear sheet. I felt so bad for all those hotdogs being objectified like that!

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Ew, scary. And someone thought this was a good idea/pertinent why? :S


Well, it got people talking, but it fell into the same trap that snags lots of funny/controversial ads: Everybody remembers the one about the fart in the car or the cat herding or the karate bear or the hotdogs, but I can't for the life of me remember what any of those ads were trying to sell me. Oops, waste of money.

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I scanned the forum messages here for previous talk of that advertisement. That gave me a fairly exact time frame which I used to search my collection of back issues. I then found it on the 2nd try.

Attached is the size-limited version of the ad, required by forum software for posting of photos. I've e-mailed you the full-size version.

The page size of the ad is a little larger than my scanner can handle, so a small amount is missing around the edges. If what I've provided is inadequate, maybe someone with a larger scanner can do it up properly for you.

The "Skydiving" issue is April, 2001, on the inside-back cover.

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Are u sure your talkin about the same ad? Because i think the one in the mag. was of a guy almost completely covered up in uncooked hot dogs. Ive never seen this one before.



If I am correct, the ad with the woman was first. Many months (years?) later was the "take off" ad with the guy. I think there is even a thread about the two ads here on dropzone.com

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Are u sure your talkin about the same ad? Because i think the one in the mag. was of a guy almost completely covered up in uncooked hot dogs. Ive never seen this one before.

and yeah i do think it was for the swoop2 vid.



I think it was done by the same people that did Swoop 2. If you see the end of Swoop 1 they make jokes about it. The Swoop 2 cover was just part of the running joke about the hotdogs. I think there was one more woman/hotdog ad and then an add with a guy and hotdogs (maybe it was Sonic, I can't remember).

It was debated on rec.skydiving a lot back then. Go search those archives.

Honestly, I never understood the ad but realized what they were trying to do with a memoriable image. And I never understood the uproar about it either. The whole thing was blown out of proportion.
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Honestly, I never understood the ad but realized what they were trying to do with a memoriable image. And I never understood the uproar about it either. The whole thing was blown out of proportion.



This is the first time that I've seen that picture. I don't understand the ad, nor the fact that there was an uproar about it either. :S

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OMG that's to funny... I nearly sprayed beer i'm laughing so hard... such self righteous indignation! rotflmao... thanks i needed that...

that is the kind of free publicity Metal bands used to LOVE to get from small town preachers... everytime one started burning records and throwing a hissy 50 more albums sold....to bad it wasnt more mainstream...
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I guess I need to clarify just in case people are thinking from my previous post that I was "actually" offended by the ad. I truly thought it was funny in a "my eyes are burning" kinda way. In other words it was an offense to my sense of vision, not my sense of taste. :S Wait, that didn't come out right did it? :S:S Now I'm making it sound like I have bad taste. I think I'll just quit while I'm behind :D
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I guess I need to clarify just in case people are thinking from my previous post that I was "actually" offended by the ad. I truly thought it was funny in a "my eyes are burning" kinda way. In other words it was an offense to my sense of vision, not my sense of taste. :S Wait, that didn't come out right did it? :S:S Now I'm making it sound like I have bad taste. I think I'll just quit while I'm behind :D



hehehe:$Keith said behind:$

Did anyone notice a slightly mysoginistic attitude of Kallend in that Recdot thread:o


In relation to the add, I also have trouble, with a company who rests their credability on T&A advertising
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HA! That ad's great! Why would that offend people? It's funny as hell.

You people need to relax...maybe go home and take a hot dog bath.



bwahahaha, good idea!

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HA! That ad's great! Why would that offend people? It's funny as hell.

You people need to relax...maybe go home and take a hot dog bath.



bwahahaha, good idea!

Join me!?!? :ph34r:



I'll bring the ketchup.



Ewwwww. That is wrong on soooo many levels.

Yet, for some reason, I'm oddly aroused... ;)
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