Police without wheels
It’s a Rover. I don’t think having wheels would make any difference.
This 1986 billboard for Uniroyal tyres in the UK used the caption “Where would the police be without our tyres?”
Back at the station fitting Goodyears I presume.
Photo by 2EOMCA
Lotterywest Scratch and Match Monopoly
No thanks. I prefer the original board game.
Those crazy people at Western Australia’s LotteryWest are at it again. They’ll do anything anything to get people to play scratch and match games.
Is nothing sacred? Defiling the great classic game of Monopoly in the name of consumerism. What an outrage. Parker brothers would be turning in their graves if they knew this was happening (well probably not, they’d be jumping for joy more likely).
Chameleon loves Nestea
Those pesky Chameleons are at it again. Drinking Nestea from a straw.
A recent bus stop advertisement for Nestle Nestea.
Hahn Super Dry For Gentlemen Who Wish to Stay Premium
Keeping up the spirit of entertaining and funny beer adverts, brewer Lion-Nathan has been busy promoting their Hahn Super Dry beer with a series of funny videos backed up with billboard advertising, one of which reads:
“Bluetooth headsets belong in the car – whether it’s your man brand or your beer, stay premium, gentleman”
The promotion encourages Hahn beer drinkers to set higher standards in social gatherings and think carefully before acting, rather than on impulse and doing something you may regret. Of course which typical lager louts or yobbos of otherbeers brands do, don’t they. Yep… that’ll work. It’s taking responsible drinking to a whole new level.
Maybe soon we’ll see the Hahn Super Dry Guide to Life.
Check out the 3 videos on the Hahn website: Don’t spit the oyster, Steve’s sister, and pool party with jeans.
Weblink:
Hot Babes in Las Vegas…on the back of truck
It’s one of those “only in America” images you get sometimes (uhhh all the time). Mobile billboards in Las Vegas advertising girls.
A truck in Las Vegas driving around with a billboard on the back advertising: “Hot Babes..Direct to you!” Oh my god, are the babes in the back of the truck as well. LOL! I guess it’s not a discrete service then.
Photo by rexworld
Viva Las Vegetarian!
Pro vegetarian group Vegas Veg*, put up these billboards in Las Vegas.
Photo by R. Schmidt who also adds a great quote:
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls,
everyone would be vegetarian.”
Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney
This is a great billboard. A simple but powerful message asking: “Why love one but eat the other?”. The billboard was put up by pro vegetarian group, Vegas Veg* who are based in of all places…Las Vegas, Nevada.
Yes that’s right. Who would have thought Vegas was a hot bed of pro vegetarianism amidst all that gambling and other entertainment. It certainly is refreshingly different to see a sign like this in Las Vegas rather than the usual obvious community service billboards one might expect.
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Top Gear shifts to NINE
Top Gear has a new home on Channel NINE
Australian television viewers may have noticed the new series of Top Gear has shifted from SBS to Channel NINE. To celebrate this, Channel NINE has erected billboards to remind dedicated viewers to tune in to the right channel.
In the former SBS 7:30 time slot now is Mythbusters.
What next to move to a commercial station then? Perhaps the very brave Bear Grylls, Man versus Wild will be heading to the deserts of Channel 7? God help us!
The Trading Post Goat and Frog Go Online
Nice logo, nice goat, nice frog…but no website address?
If you haven’t noticed recently, people are buying and selling stuff online… yes, it’s true I tell you. The Trading Post has wound up its old fashioned printed edition in October 2009 and now only exists as an online format. Keen to promote itself in the real world, The Trading Post has plastered many billboards and bus shelters all over Australia with the funny goat and frog campaign, “bargain” and “reckon” along with a series of corresponding television adverts. One unusual thing about the billboards, is they don’t mention any website address to goto…a bit strange for an online business. Did they forget about this perhaps? Or are they expecting people to “google it”? Well lets hope they are not redirected to EBay Australia when they do (ahh forget I said that). With a large advertising budget at stake, let’s hope the owner of The Trading Post, Telstra subsidiary Sensis, makes good into the online world of buy and sell.
Below: One of The Trading Post television adverts. Perhaps inspired by the classic 1955 Warner Bros Merrie Melodies episode, One Froggy Evening:
Streets Golden Gaytime Keeps Up Camp Tradition
Streets ice cream stalwart, Golden Gaytime is receiving plenty of summer promotion with many of these mini bus shelter billboards being… umm erected around the place. The catch phrase of “It’s hard to have a Gaytime on your own!” continues to be used, even though it’s quite old. This ice cream and promotion remains nearly unchanged for many years and has stood the test of time yet still manages to get a few laughs with its camp humour. Mr Humphries of Are You Being Served fame would be delighted to get his tongue around one of these…oops.
Golden Gaytime website: http://goldengaytime.com.au
Miss me yet? George W. Bush
Miss me yet? Hell yes, we want ya back George.
This incredible billboard was spotted near the Twin Cities MN featuring ex US president George W. Bush with the caption of “Miss me yet?”. The question of who would put up a such a crazy sign apparently seems to be a group of disgruntled small businessmen who are not happy with current Washington economic policies.
Who knows? Maybe it was ex president, George W. “told ya so” Bush himself paid for it.
Photo by wstera2
The flipside: Tony Blair and John Howard are also greatly missed.
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