Ahahaha!!!

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:11 pm

Virgin Money asked b3ta to come up with ideas for their new advertising campaign "Exciting things happen when you say yes", and offered XBOX 360s and PSPs as prizes.

The usual tirade of offence against Virgin as a company and Branson as an individual, plus every bad taste joke you can think of appeared on the competition page, including several slagging them off for stealing Danny Wallace's idea.

Virgin pulled the competition, claiming they had no idea that was going to happen, despite being warned in advance. See this post here for pure comedy gold.

Also this one made me smile - I've met Curis a couple of times and he's a really nice guy. Posts on IDW sometimes too.

Post by **Best First** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:18 pm

good stuff.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 3:14 pm

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 10:08 pm

I'm confused.

Are you emvee or GoldenFanjita, or both?

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:41 pm

[insert obligatory Brendocon alt-id joke here]

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:10 am

Rebis wrote:Are you emvee or GoldenFanjita, or both?

Fanj is a friend of mine, who lends me webspace. Though those roles may be reversed in a month or two.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:25 am

Anyone see yesterday's Guardian?
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1934780,00.html
It also made the Register, the Inquirer and loads of internet/IT/computing sources

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:57 pm

"We would simply ask that any pictures which could be mistaken for porn are linked with an appropriate warning."

"Warning: This isn't actually porn"

?

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:16 pm

It's the NSFW clause - an image that is nudey but with the nudey bits covered up still should be linked in case someone's boss sees it and it looks like porn on the screen.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:23 pm

I prefered my interpretation.