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Corporate Tattoos
National Public Radio's All Things Considered program reported that companies such as Pepsi were sponsoring teenagers to tattoo themselves with corporate logos. In return, the teenagers would receive a lifetime 10% discount on that company's products. Teenagers were said to be responding enthusiastically to the deal.
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There's a wrestler with a Pepsi tatoo on his arm. (CM Punk) I think he believed the hoax.
Posted by Dudester on Sat Mar 19, 2005 at 04:10 PM
I'd do it if it was a 15% discount.
Though it might start some Pepsi vs Coke gang wars
Posted by Redstar on Sat Apr 02, 2005 at 07:30 PM
Though it might start some Pepsi vs Coke gang wars
I sure hope nobody believed this.
Pepsi can already get people to buy clothing with their brand on it and parade around with it. Why would they offer people discounts?
Posted by J. Lam in Canada on Wed Jun 01, 2005 at 11:47 PM
Pepsi can already get people to buy clothing with their brand on it and parade around with it. Why would they offer people discounts?
Just think in 94' it was a hoax, now people are selling their bald heads on e-bay as ad space.
Posted by Now True in Florida on Fri Mar 31, 2006 at 11:49 PM
Bald heads? They're selling heads, clevage and any other visible parts of the body! Generally more to casinos than Pepsi and co.
Ahhhh, the money-grabbing stupidity of some people...
Posted by IBBoard in Manchester, UK on Sat Apr 01, 2006 at 03:12 AM
Ahhhh, the money-grabbing stupidity of some people...
In 1999 a small San Francisco Mexican restaurant offered free lunch to all who would tattoo their rather neat logo of 'Jimmy the Corn Guy' on their body. They expected about 20, maybe 25 but when that number was quickly passed they set the limit at 50. I have #51 since I'd already put down a deposit on the $80 tattoo.
Then they sat down and computed the cost of everyone getting a free lunch very day for the rest of their lives: $5,800,000!
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/04/14/MN76470.DTL
Posted by Stannous Flouride on Thu Sep 06, 2007 at 12:35 AM
Then they sat down and computed the cost of everyone getting a free lunch very day for the rest of their lives: $5,800,000!
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/04/14/MN76470.DTL
Tattoo's for currency. Sounds a little like the mark of the beast. I am sure that was the point of the joke.
Posted by Meia in Redlands on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 11:42 AM
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