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Not for the faint of art.
#627635 added January 3, 2009 at 5:54pm
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Marketing
We got this flier in the mail a while back from a lawn care company - it was full of awful puns and clever jokes about the economy, relating it to lawn care. Things like, "We can dump the leaves onto your neighbor's foreclosed-upon driveway - who'd know?" I'd quote from it some more, but I'm too lazy to go to the fridge and get it. Yes, we tacked it onto the fridge - anyone that funny gets my business. If, that is, we actually have a freaking LAWN in the spring.

So someone found this ad in an Illinois newspaper:

http://i43.tinypic.com/27xezpi.jpg

Hey, if I lived in Illinois I'd buy from them.

Too bad I didn't notice anything like this around the time of the Clinton / Lewinsky thing.

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