Most gratuitous use of sex in advertising?

Is this any way to sell sunglasses?

http://www.bondagerotica.com/adv_nudecuffed.jpg

Is this any way to sell a Gameboy?

http://www.bondagerotica.com/adv_womantiedtobed.jpg
Gratuitous, sure, but fun nonetheless!

(Automatic parsing of links disabled in recognition of the political power that prudes now hold over the SDMB.)

OK, whatever she’s selling I’m buying.

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the excrement of the defecation of an extemely smelly animal.

Gary: Knock Knock
Church: Whos there?
Gary: You are.
Church: You are who?
Gary: You are a dirty dirty shizno Ha Ha Ha

Gary: Andy and I are not on speaking terms right now. He is kind of jerk.
Andy: Im not the jerk, your the jerk, jerk.
Gary: That was kind of rude.
Andy: Ah shut up you shizno!
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2. shizno
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The essence of being dirty and idiotic. Shizno’s usually are able to go beyond the normal limits of human stupidity.

Oh my goodness, Raffi is such a shizno.
tags popozao dirty idiot stupid raffi
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3. shizno
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One who stupid, or is performing stupid acts.

Dude you’re such a shizno.
“dumbass”

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4. Shizno **

Something/someone who is concidered “cool” or “great”. Can also be used as an exclimation. Not to be confused with Shizni.

“Free pancakes?! Shizno!”
“Yeah that Dick Cheney, is he shizno or what?”

So she told me to come over and I took that trip
And then she took out my mushroom tip
And when it came out it went drip drip drip
I didn’t even kow she had the G.I. Joe kung fu grip
And it went uuh and the girl caress me down
Uhh that’s the lovin’ sound

Knock knock jokes are the best way to explain what unknown words mean :slight_smile:

Is it even worth mentioning anything Virgin does? A few years ago there were these ads for their new cellphone service, featuring comely young men in a sort of 1970s visual idiom, in a variety of situations with some sort of homoerotic double entendre: for example, a wrestler with the slogan “With Virgin’s plan [blah blah blah] I’m free to switch teams.”

I believe urbandict used a knock knock joke to illustrate the context in which the term is traditionally used, namely low-brow quasi-logical humor. You’ll find immediately prior to the example of usage was a definition.

That commercial made me think of this commercial, though I don’t know if you can call it gratuitous since the commercial was selling lingere…

It’s a chocolate bar sold in the UK. The chocolate is poured out in a thin stream so it forms air pockets in the bar (like this). So when you bite into it, the chocolate crumbles in your mouth. There’s also an ice cream cone sold which has a flake candy bar inside of it.

seems like the right thread to post a link to the

Phallic Logo Awards

I’d say the phone-sex-line ads in the back pages of porn mags.

Does that count?

Aha! Just goes to show how ineffective the campaign was, hmm?

Thank you, Little Nemo. How good is the chocolate?

Sorry I don’t have a link but my nomination is a furniture ad you’ve probably already seen in a local newspaper. It is a picture of a couple in a furnished apartment. The pose of the female model touching the telescope is not very subliminal.

No idea; I’ve never eaten one. I’m an American so I’ve only occasionally seen a Flake in a specialty store dealing in British imports.

The chocolate in those is OK, if a little sweet. What is neat about them is that the chocolate crumbles and thus your whole mouth gets coatted quickly.

-Tcat

I have to pipe in with the most recent idiotic Carl’s Jr. commercial (easily the worst long-term advertising campaign of any organization ever). Some Hooters-type girl (boob top/short skirt) is wiping down a table while I guy ogles her while eating Buffalo wings…and this has what exactly to do with your new sandwich? She is hot, I suppose, but the commercial is gratuitous, not even remotely clever (they try to insert a joke in there somewhere) and dumbdumbdumb.

So, what the problem? :smiley:

Exactly. And you remembered the brand name, then complained about it on the internet, and somewhere in Arizona, some gullible excuse of a sheeple is sitting at his computer thinking Mmm… Carl’s Jr. DOES sound good for lunch about now! :wink:

Sorry to bump this, but I’m way behind in CS. Anyway, the message in that commercial is, if you go to the wings joint with the hot waitresses, your girlfriend will get mad at you for ogling the hot waitresses. So go to Carl’s and get their buffalo burger. There is, of course, no option to go to the wings joint without the girlfriend. Or, for that matter, to realize that the reason the hot waitress is wiggling her ass at you is because she wants a bigger tip, and therefore turn your attention to the girlfriend, who you know is going to put out, if you quit ogling the hot waitress, that is. At any rate, Carl’s is in some way superior to the place with the hot waitresses.