# Best.Billboard.Ever
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboard-ever/662711
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 5, 2013, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboard-ever/662711 "2013-07-05T12:19:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2013, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboard-ever/662711/1 "2013-07-05T12:19:45Z")
I now get to see [this](http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k302/labtrash/bestbillboardever_zps41e48061.jpg) every day on my way to work.
I’m very surprised this got approval to be put up, especially in South Carolina!
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2013, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboard-ever/662711/2 "2013-07-05T13:24:30Z")
Any chance of making that bigger so we can see what it actually says?
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2013, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboard-ever/662711/3 "2013-07-05T13:45:52Z")
“Coastal Urge
Outfit your lifestyle”
I assume that’s Urge and not “Surge” with the bird supposed to be an “S” or something. Anyway, I’m guessing the OP is more interested in the scantily clad woman in the photo.
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### Author:  [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2013, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboard-ever/662711/4 "2013-07-05T13:46:01Z")
> [@Sunspace](#):
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> Any chance of making that bigger so we can see what it actually says?
It was taken from a moving car (no good place to pull over and amir…photograph it.
Wait…There are _words_ there?
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### Author:  [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2013, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboard-ever/662711/5 "2013-07-05T13:47:30Z")
I don’t get it. A wave, A generic bikini babe, and some obscure logos placed haphazardly. What is good about it? And what is it actually _about_?
Oh, now I get it. That particular bikini babe is The OP’s perfect woman. Funny how that works; you’d think that most generic bikini babes would appeal to the general male public, but apparently small differences in bod make big differences in individual appreciation. A lid for every kettle, indeed.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2013, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboard-ever/662711/6 "2013-07-05T13:49:22Z")
Coastal Urge?
What is she doing, raking for clams?
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### Author:  [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboard-ever/662711/7 "2013-07-05T14:33:08Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
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> Coastal Urge?
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> What is she doing, raking for clams?
Using a longish paddle to paddle a surfboard
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### Author:  [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboard-ever/662711/8 "2013-07-05T14:36:42Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
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> Coastal Urge?
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> What is she doing, raking for clams?
You can’t see the clam from this angle.
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboard-ever/662711/9 "2013-07-05T15:04:24Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#):
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> You can’t see the clam from this angle.
One rake is sufficient, sir.
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### Author:  [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboard-ever/662711/10 "2013-07-05T15:10:18Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#):
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> You can’t see the clam from this angle.
Win.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2013, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboard-ever/662711/11 "2013-07-05T17:28:57Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#):
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> You can’t see the clam from this angle.
Groan.
I still think [this is the best billboard ever.](http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4081/4860839622_7baabce0ab_z.jpg) Who knew those Saskatchewan Pork farmers had such a sense of humour? 😃
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### Author:  [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2013, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboard-ever/662711/12 "2013-07-06T01:30:32Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#):
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> Groan.
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> I still think [this is the best billboard ever.](http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4081/4860839622_7baabce0ab_z.jpg) Who knew those Saskatchewan Pork farmers had such a sense of humour? 😃
this one is _much_ better: it’s about something and it give useful advice.
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### Author:  [@jsquire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsquire)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2013, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboard-ever/662711/13 "2013-07-07T12:45:37Z")
There’s one in rural Ohio along the way to Columbus that says:
PSYCHIC NEEDED
You know where to apply.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2013, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboard-ever/662711/14 "2013-07-07T14:58:18Z")
This [one’s](http://files.sharenator.com/creative_billboard_22-s400x331-143816.jpg) clever. (mildly NSFW)
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### Author:  [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2013, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboard-ever/662711/15 "2013-07-08T07:43:26Z")
> [@aruvqan](#):
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> Using a longish paddle to paddle a surfboard
\Actually, she’s on a [standup paddleboard](http://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/paddleboarding.html) (SUP) and she’s using a paddle specifically designed for standup paddleboarding. They’re designed and used a bit differently than surfboards.\
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### Author:  [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2013, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboard-ever/662711/16 "2013-07-08T08:59:28Z")
I don’t understand the OP’s excitement. I lived in the Carolinas 30 years ago, and girls in bikinis on billboards weren’t THAT big a deal then. Have things gotten that puritanical in the last 3 decades?
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### Author:  [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2013, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboard-ever/662711/17 "2013-07-08T11:12:05Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#):
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> \Actually, she’s on a [standup paddleboard](http://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/paddleboarding.html) (SUP) and she’s using a paddle specifically designed for standup paddleboarding. They’re designed and used a bit differently than surfboards.\
😛
Whatever, I don’t do the reasonably current watersports - crutches and wheelchairs aren’t really accomodating to that sort of activity [especially combined with some form of arthritis or joint damage on more or less every joint south of my waist. Except my damned ankles.] I swim, and am qualified open water 1 and 2, advanced open water and wreck diving. Well and also repair and maintenance of equipment but you don’t even need to get into the water to do maintenance and repair. And I can handle boats, I can sail most anything from a [sunfish](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunfish_%28sailboat%29) [got one sitting in my barn, actually] to my [Grandfather’s Sea Gypsy](http://www.classicyachtforsale.com/sySeaGibsy.html) [grew up sailing on her. I can do pretty much every job onboard though would now be limited to captain, navigator, communications or chop.] On the plus side, I can actually use celestial navigation and still have my Grandfathers nav tools, though obviously the charts would need updating since the most current is 1969. I can handle power boats from a half horse outboard dingy to the [Lyman 19’ inboard](http://www.lymanboat.com/images/brokerage/kerr2.jpg) that was our jolly boat for the Sea Gypsy and my brother and I kept after we sold the sailboat when my Grandfather died. I have handled much larger powered boats, but would not feel comfortable with them without working under someone for a few trips.
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### Author:  [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2013, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboard-ever/662711/18 "2013-07-08T16:30:13Z")
> [@Maastricht](#):
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> I don’t get it. A wave, A generic bikini babe, and some obscure logos placed haphazardly. What is good about it? And what is it actually _about_?
It’s a _lady_! And she has a _butt!_ And she’s. . . she’s almost _whispers_ _nakie!!!_
:rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboard-ever/662711/19 "2013-07-08T16:34:19Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#):
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> It’s a _lady_! And she has a _butt!_ And she’s. . . she’s almost _whispers_ _nakie!!!_
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> :rolleyes:
But how is that really better than the TOTO Washlet ad with a LOT of actually bare butts that got pulled from Times Square?
> **[Butt No: Billboard Banned From Times Square](https://gothamist.com/news/butt-no-billboard-banned-from-times-square)**
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> A judge has banned Toto's "Washlet" cleaning system billboard from a
Edited to add: More Billboards of Bare Butts. Some not worth looking at.
> **[14 Billboards with Butts](http://billboardom.blogspot.com/2008/04/14-billboards-with-butts.html)**
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> There must be something culturally significant about all those billboard butts you stare at during your morning commute. Sly admen playing ...
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### Author:  [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2013, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboard-ever/662711/20 "2013-07-08T17:16:52Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> But how is that really better than the TOTO Washlet ad with a LOT of actually bare butts that got pulled from Times Square?
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> [Butt No: Billboard Banned From Times Square - Gothamist](http://gothamist.com/2007/07/10/butt_no_billboa.php)
> Edited to add: More Billboards of Bare Butts. Some not worth looking at.
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> [14 Billboards with Butts | Awesome Billboards and Outdoor Advertising | Billboardom](http://billboardom.blogspot.com/2008/04/14-billboards-with-butts.html)
_Ermergerd!_ Lady butts! Stop that before I lose it and blow one in my jorts! BRB taking a screen shot and posting this to my favorite message board to show them that I like nakie ladies. Because butts!!!
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