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[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 78 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm more willing to read ads if they were wacky as this, but you can't all have them be this as I will just start ignoring them again.

[–] trashboat@midwest.social 11 points 2 months ago

For sure. Reminds me of what Wendy’s Twitter account used to be like before all the corpos started to copy their style

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

As much as I hate the constant stream of lazy, lying bullshit I do love a really clever campaign.

Think of the sheer balls an advertising company had to have to walk into the initial "Compare the Market" add campaign pitch and say the word "Meerkats" and then go on to explain they would say next to fuckall about what the company actually did.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)


(This is internet history)

[–] spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I still want to know how this came about. It was the first letter of the first word! And I don't see it as being "Architecture and Planning" or any such variation haha

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I think they started on the left for whatever reason and moved right meaning they severely miscalculated. There was a place near me where they screwed up similarly due to a planter.

[–] waigl@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, it's not the department of planning ahead…

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

always plan ahe
ad

[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

All it's missing is a typo.

[–] 69420@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You'll find that in the copywriting department.

[–] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

😂😂😂

[–] Klear@quokk.au -3 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] Redacted@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] AyuTsukasa@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think they're correcting it to make it a typo

[–] Redacted@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

Oh thats actually pretty funny, good job

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH!

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago
[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sing it with me now… “Oh if it’s possessive it’s just i-t-s but if it’s a contraction it’s I-t apostrophe s! Scallywag!”

[–] Klear@quokk.au 2 points 2 months ago

So of course, the nerdy scientist-type has it all figured out...

[–] grue@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Reminds me of my college. The architecture building had an awkward floor plan and the civil engineering building was poorly constructed.

[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But architects like badly designed buildings, as long as they are artsy.
My unis signature program is architecture and the library is shedding glass panels as a result. Meanwhile the computer science building is an oxidizing faraday cage that needed to be retrofitted with repeaters for firefighter radio.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Architects and structural engineers, mortal enemies since inception.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

Fun Fact about Tuskegee: Booker T Washington had the first students build the campus

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That sign is intentionally bad. The electrical tape was a nice touch.

So I’m guessing the sign was actually made by an office coordinator or project manager as a practical joke.

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

It is a well executed joke indeed. Yeah, I was guessing it was a project manager because it’s definitely the kind of thing I would have done for my team.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

So I’m guessing the sign was actually made by an office coordinator or project manager as a practical joke.

We dont know how far along they are in their comedic education, so it could have been a theoretical joke.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hey now. They never said they were good at it, just that it is their department.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago

Entire department is all nepo-baby interns on Summer break.

[–] SuperEars@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

John Mulaney: "BIG ASS H "

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I think he was more about the C