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This is ad sense? The scary hot dogs of BoingBoing

July 4th, 2005 · No Comments


Robot ad placement at its most disturbing: An ad for “old-fashioned hot dogs” attached to BoingBoing’s demo of vintage LSD scare-story about talking hot dogs with ketchup in their hair


p.s. Einstein’s sister had moral issues with hot dogs–she loved them, but she was a vegetarian. Her famous brother kindly encouraged her, “You know, in your case, I believe the hot dog could be considered a vegetable.”

Similarly, my non-hot-dog-eating husband defended me at a physics picnic against some knowledgeable passerby warning about all the bad stuff they put into hot dogs (I eat one about once a year.) “What’s inside your hot dog,” said Frank, “is protons, neutrons, and electrons.”


Tags: Metablogging