News Item:
Controversial billboards coming down
A morning radio show has caused a flap in Idaho, and we’re not talking about Howard Stern or Don Imus. Boise radio station 96.9, The Eagle, wanted to attract a larger portion of male listeners, and decided cleavage was the way to go. So they coughed up the required change to have a billboard sized graphic made, and billboards aren’t cheap. The image was of a bodacious woman’s t-shirt, with two faces planted strategically on the front. The faces belonged to the radio show’s hosts, a couple of guys named Bob and Tom. The ad campaign was meant to promote the duo as Two Boobs in the Morning.
If this was Los Angeles, or if the sign was in Times Square, it probably wouldn’t have caused such a fuss, but this was The Heartland, home to good ‘ol down home folks, and big boobs and radio just didn’t seem to fit. Maybe the correlation between the two just didn’t take hold. Men look at boobs, but they don’t look at the radio. People listen to the radio. Boobs don’t make a lot of noise. Just no direct relationship there.
If the advertising company that designed the campaign had tried to localize it a bit more, it might have been able to fly. When you think of Idaho, you think of potatoes, so maybe a different tag line would have worked. Rather than going with Two Boobs in the Morning, they could have tried Two Spuds, or Two Taters, instead. The Tater tag would have been reminiscient of an old George Carlin routine, the one about the Seven Dirty Words. If you don’t remember his references to Tater T..’s as a snack, then you’re not old enough for us to tell you.
Full Story: KTVB.com
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6 users commented in " Boobs Banned in Boise "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackOh no! Breasts! Breasts are bad an obscene! EVIL! EVIL! We must BAN BREASTS!
And we wonder why so many women have self-esteem issues in this culture. Hey, here’s an idea… maybe if so many uptight rightwing loons didn’t go out of their way to make sure that women thought their own bodies were obscene, women wouldn’t be so prone to feeling that there was something wrong with their bodies.
BOOBS ON A BILLBOARD! AVERT YOUR EYES! Because nobody’s ever seen breasts beore, especially not children!
The O.W.N. Cult is a dangerous new cult-gang from Portland and now they are in Boise. MY brother Brian got mixed up with them in Portland but thank god he’s been saved by the lord after a rough year of mental illness. They have been down gang graffiti all over town. Their leader calls him self Jesus Bin Laden. I felt like it was my duty as a concerned citizen to alert the media to this situation immediately.-Curt plum GOD BLESS I love your programiin
Just like Boise to focus on the tits, when the obvious attraction is the two boobs on the tits! … then, they hate the tits so much (because anyone who likes to look at tits must be a sinner), that they have big cows and make big stinkum about the large, lucious tits… hmmm? Oh well… what can you expect from dumb-as-stump, republican Idaho?… dog fighting is still a misdemeanor there!
@John Canterra
Yeah, I hate those Idahoans! They’re all a bunch of hicks and potato farmers! Shall we look down upon their filthiness and right-wing ways from our pedestal and laugh? Yes! Inbreeds! Scoundrals! Illiterates! We mock you from up here!
Think before you try to be witty dude, not only did your comment not make much sense, but your comments were at the most just ignorant and slightly offensive.
Also, not that I really blame ya, but the spuds thing wouldn’t really work in Idaho. We’re actually kind of sick of all the potato puns.
@John Canterra
From a city in Idaho:
Please try to edit your post of any unnecessary information, the evidence that you are retarded will still be visible by readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly.
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