Chirky: Quite possibly the worst advertising campaign of 2006.

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Quite possibly the worst advertising campaign of 2006.

March 27, 2006

That string makes me want to vomit.

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the BEST thing about this post is that I am not at all shocked that:

1) you posted it
2) you had your camera with you when you noticed this advertising campaing
3) you took the time to really look at it and think about it

Posted by: Katie | March 27, 2006 01:16 PM

and what is with the astrick by the tammy? really is that a little decoration or is there some kind of conditional statement they need to make, like "not actual size"

Posted by: Katie | March 27, 2006 01:17 PM

That made me laugh out loud.

I was wondering the same thing about the atericks. And they definitely should have left off the string. Ugh.

Posted by: heather | March 27, 2006 02:27 PM

I think the asterisk means "this is a tampon and not an actual number one". In case anybody didn't realize it. But why would they be in the "feminine products" aisle if they didn't know what it meant??

I agree Jes, it's tacky. Not vomitious tacky, but tacky just the same.

Posted by: AmStaff Mom | March 27, 2006 02:31 PM

ummm... why does it make you want to vomit? What is that thing?!?!?!?!!? AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! TMI!

Posted by: eddo | March 27, 2006 03:14 PM

I thought the tampon was a microphone for a minute... my browser cut off the picture before the string ended. I was thinking "women choose tampax 2 to microphone?" I was thinking, did they have a tampax shaped microphone they used to survey these people? Who works in there marketing department and I want to know what the marketing department executive was smoking when he approved this? Maybe it was a tampon shaped doobie?

Ick.

Posted by: ben | March 27, 2006 11:01 PM

Their... not there.

Posted by: ben | March 27, 2006 11:02 PM

AHAHAHAHAHA

tampon shaped microphone . . . . . UH NO. Trust me women would RUN from a tampon shaped microphone. RUN.

Posted by: Katie | March 28, 2006 08:19 AM

Yes, Katie they will run. FAR, FAR AWAY!

Posted by: i'm not telling even though Jes will make it known somehow | March 28, 2006 08:44 AM

hi bianca aka "I'm not telling even though Jes will make it known somehow"

Posted by: Katie | March 28, 2006 08:47 AM

this is: The Point in which Katie Stops Making Sense.