I hadn’t heard of this until I saw the post last night, then today I saw a TV ad and heard a radio ad:
“My buddy gets it at work”
“My girlfriend gets it on South Congress”
“My dad gets it in the middle of the night – and my mom doesn’t know”
“My grandparents have been getting it for 40 years”
“Me, I’m conservative, I only get it 3 times a week”
I don’t get it.
Maybe the Austin American-Statesman (the big daily paper)? That would fit all the requirements. The Statesman has a reputation as being a liberal paper, so the last one is funny.
That works perfectly. In that case, I do get it.
I still say “crabs” fits.
I think they do have a 3 paper-a-week weekend plan (Friday, Saturday, Sunday). That fits. I get it.
Of course, the Statesman only has a “liberal” reputation amongst conservatives with blinders on. It has a “conservative” reputation amongst blinders-wearing liberals. If they’re pissing everyone off, they might be on to something (only when it comes to editorial policy- otherwise, the paper kinda sucks).
It’s really not a particularly liberal paper. It used to be more liberal but then Rich Oppel took over as editor from the Atlanta Journal Constitution about, oh, 9 or 10 years ago. The paper has taken a deliberate turn to the right under his helm.
Y’all may be right about the ad. The Statesman does tend to do an awful lot of goofy self-promoting.
When I used “liberal” and “conservative” above, those terms encompass “communist,” “socialist,” “radical,” “hippy,” and “anti-American” for the former, and “fascist,” “reactionary,” “Nazi” and “radical religious right” for the latter. I’ve also heard “racist,” meant to be thrown in, aimed at either “liberal” or “conservative” bias, depending on what the issue was.
We had something like this going on last year in the Twin Cities, but for us it was a smallish blimp hovering over the skyline and flying around various parts of the metro. I forget the phrase they were using, but it was similar to that in the OP. Generated enough interested that all the local news stations ran a story on it.
Turned out to be some new format on the local Fox news show. Funny, after it was unveiled not one of the other local news stations commented on it, ever again.
It might have worked, but damn was it annoying.
If anyone still cares, it was the newspaper:
I just saw that a little while ago. I’m so proud I actually figured it out first. 