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October 7th, 2009
10:08 am - 90,000 shills you haven't met
The MBTA started running ads from the Aruba tourism board a few months ago. Each subway ad features someone from Aruba (a nature guide, two windsurfer kids and a rich white guy who owns a spa) and what is presumably a hand-written note from each, though apparently everyone in Aruba likes punctuating their notes with drawings of shells and stars and whatnot. All that was missing were little hearts over each lower-case i.
Anyway, the letters in the ads described how much of a great time these folks were having living in Aruba and what a great time the tourists have and how happy they are to meet all the tourists and they probably arrange pen pal programs all the time now or I don't know.
I guess it wasn't working all that well or perhaps Aruba realized that maybe advertising "friendly locals" to Bostonians was a bit of a stretch. The ads have returned but in an altered state: Now, each hand-written note tells you what AMAZING OFFERS (caps and emphasis theirs) you can get by visiting the official website.
How sad! I mean, okay, it was always obvious that the ads were hand-written by someone in PR (probably drafted in committee) and that the Nature Guide really doesn't doodle plants and animals all over his written correspondence, but geez, it wasn't so damn transparent. Now, instead of telling a story about teaching a tourist all their awesome windsurfing tricks, the kids now just tell you that you can find AWESOME DEALS over on the website.
Someone thought this was a good idea. I dunno. Maybe I just like my T ads with more narrative structure, or at least a little bof fri fleu.
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ALL ADS SHOULD INCLUDE BOF FRI FLEU. ![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/12072952/2346955) | | From: |  ckd |
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| Date: | October 7th, 2009 03:32 pm (UTC) |
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I'm always tempted to add a little bit to those ads: "90,000 friends you haven't met, plus a young woman you won't meet because she disappeared a few years ago (so let us know if you find a body)." ![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/79213823/864661) | | From: | wring |
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| Date: | October 7th, 2009 04:32 pm (UTC) |
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ohohoho too soon? I often wish I could reach through the ads and knock the windsurfer kids' heads together. These ads are so much better than the creepy, porny Vacation Outlet ads. Then again, blindness would be better than those ads. ![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/58010866/124644) | | From: | juldea |
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| Date: | October 8th, 2009 01:14 am (UTC) |
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Your post was sitting right atop another post with the subject line "Those three little words," which made COMPLETE SENSE in my head because "bof fri fleu" is totally the correct three little words. When you find yourself in search of stroke signs
Grandma Mary comes to you
Speaking words of wisdom:
Bof fri fleu |
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