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Never Forget

Remember 9/11 With Pure Liberian Silver

Have you been searching for just the right way to commemorate the 9/11 disaster? Are kitschy figurines and patriotic truck decals and screaming eagle t-shirts just not doing it for you? The solution has arrived: genuine non-circulated Liberian currency in the shape of a $20 bill—but made out of .999 pure silver, and picturing the once-mighty Twin Towers, and bearing a "9" and and "11" on one side which cleverly add up to $20, which is also the price of this unique and patriotic (USA) item. Here is an ad for this treasure that will simply make you say "wtf." Click to watch right now.

2:06 PM on Fri Jul 25 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
3,574 views, 69 comments

Latest by deliriummmm: Liberian Silver....nice. Check out the article on terror and Liberia in "A Protected Friend of Terrorism" [www.washingtonpost.com] more »

advertising

Brazilian Paper Hates Money, America

A Brazilian newspaper is running a series of ads with the slogan "Understand the real value of money." So what's the real value of a dollar? Apparently it's terrorism, pollution, the Challenger disaster, war, and tornadoes. Oh, and weed. They didn't forget the weed. I won't pretend to be able to identify the underlying philosophy here, but I will point out that even dumb people have figured out that using 9/11 in ads is a bad idea. The takeaway: Give all your dollars to me. Below, the full ad from the Brasilmofascist menace: More »

3:09 PM on Thu May 15 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
2,090 views, 52 comments

Latest by TheRtHonPM: @Multiphasic: Not to dork up your pop culture reference, but Feynman famously spent a few years in Brazil. more »

prodigy

Incarcerated Rapper Reveals Satanic Molester Conspiracy

Prodigy, the Mobb Deep rapper currently taking advantage of his incarceration to hone his blogging skills, is concerned about quite a few things: ritualistic murders, the 9/11 conspiracy, secret societies, missing children, and "NATURAL ENERGY LINES THAT CRISS-CROSS THE ENTIRE PLANET." How do these things all tie together? Allow Prodigy explain at length [Vibe], like a man with plenty of time to type and type and type and go crazier and crazier and crazier: More »

12:33 PM on Fri May 2 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
6,786 views, 65 comments

Latest by RenRen: The folks over at www.ae911truth.org had a physics professor, an architect, and CYNTHIA MCKINNEY as speakers at an event. I more »

badvertising

9/11 Ads Are Just A Bad Idea

You'd think at some point, in a creative review meeting, some advertising exec would stand up and say, "Maybe the 9-11 picture's not such a good idea." Such a simple sentence. But no! The latest example of incorporating a nationally traumatic terrorist mass murder into an ad: this spot for SABC Radio [via AdScam], with the tagline "There's More To See On Radio." Such as the Twin Towers burning. So hey, listen to the radio! Click through for a larger image, and pictures of the five worst 9-11 ads we've covered in the past: More »

12:41 PM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
12,114 views, 40 comments

Latest by bridgeburner: The two guys I know who narrowly survived the WTC attack totally started smoking afterwards. You choose to smoke, but more »

advertising

Smoking And Terrorism Come Together In Bad Ad

One lesson that you, not being an advertising professional, might think would have sunk in by now: Don't use 9/11 as an advertising tool. Not even for a good cause, like this anti-tobacco ad. It's just skeevy. But the imagery is so powerful! Still no. [Daily Dish]

2:58 PM on Mon Mar 3 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
1,821 views, 29 comments

Latest by famousauthor: The cigarettes are obviously round. Who could possibly confuse them with the World Trade Center? And I don't more »