Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Faint heart never won fair lady

"Gambling is now a diverse, vibrant and innovative industry", says Tessa Jowell, Britain's Culture Secretary. ("Industry"? "Culture"? Well, she can certainly take dictation.)

One vibrant and innovative ad is located above a urinal in London:



- Courtesy of Dougald Hine, who comments:

I am struggling here. I can't seem to find anything beyond the single entendre. Or even much of a connection to poker. Unless the message is: "Gamble on our site and you can win enough to pay for a prostitute."
Are we in Iraq for the oil? No, the oil is just the means to the end. The end is even more diverse and vibrant innovation, forever.

2 comments:

  1. Poke her. Appealing to the distantly, ironically ironically distant: we're not going to try to kid you, you're too smart for that. You're as smart as we are; you know our game better than we do. Who are we kidding? So can we talk? You want to be a winner, not a loser. This is your only chance. Not much of a chance, but it's all you've got.

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  2. Anonymous5:58 AM

    Thank you for at least clearing up my confusion - it's a convincing suggestion. What a hideous advert.

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