# Can someone explain the pic in this ad?

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**Created:** [February 9, 2009, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107 "2009-02-09T18:46:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107/61 "2009-02-11T09:15:57Z")

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> [@Swallowed My Cellphone](#):
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> Okay, so the image is trying to get you to want to go on a cruise, but the image is effective only for people who have already been on a cruise and recognize it. The rest of us are just frightened by the soul-sucking monkey-mummy. Effective ad campaign.

FWIW, I immediately saw a cruisegoing human (not monkey) lying down by the pool with her shades on. I thought it was a pretty cool thing to do with towels.

And anyway, the ad could very well be targeted at people who have already been on a cruise. In this economy, who the hell is going to spend the money to take a cruise for the first time?

> [@Askance](#):
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> Does anyone else do this? A knock on the hotel/cabin door about 4pm accompanied by the cry “TURNDOWN SERVICE!”. You reply “OK THEN: NO THANKS!”. They never get it.

And for what it’s worth, I LOL’d.

Hostile Dialect,  
Hostile Dialect, Narcissist

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