I’m sure these seemed like a good idea at the time.
Nowadays, however, it’d be a different story.
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Lindsay Lohan is suing online financial trading company ETrade for $100 million for “pain and suffering” after the company ran a Super Bowl advertisement that Lohan says was based on her.
Lohan wants ETrade give her $1 for every viewer of the commercial she says has had an impact on her image, which she claims is [...]

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The Tiger Woods camp is going to love this one.
The golf star’s image appears on a new PETA billboard bearing the tagline “Too Much Sex Can Be a Bad Thing”. Underneath, it reads “…for little tigers too. Help keep your cats (and dogs) out of trouble: Always spay or neuter!”
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A video has popped up on YouTube featuring UFC champ Chuck Liddell and his girlfriend Heidi Northcott working out naked as part of a viral ad campaign for Reebok.
Liddell currently has an existing sponsorship deal with the athletic company.
The short workout clip shows Liddell and Northcott doing working out in nothing but a pair of [...]

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It’s nice to see that Insane Clown Posse has launched its own news network, the aptly-named Insane Clown News Network, or ICNN.
The Juggalo News desk is manned by Krazy Thug Nutz, as well as correspondents Murderbitch and Phats Cockstrangla.
Favorite quote: “Obama promised mad reform up in this bitch.”
NSFW video below:

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How do you rent your extra room?  You place just about the best freakin’ Craigslist ad we’ve ever seen.
This guy has a future writing web copy for sure, although he is probably a terrible roommate.
See ad below (language is NSFW):

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A new advertising campaign from the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership that encourages drivers to wear their seat belts is going viral.
An internet phenomenon, ‘Embrace Life’ smashed through one million views online in less than two weeks and is being shown in front of James Cameron and Bill Gates at the TED.Com Conference in Long Beach, [...]

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While it didn’t make our list of top 10 Super Bowl commercials, the Audi “Green Police” commercial is raising a few eyebrows.
In the ad, every-day citizens are arrested for using plastic instead of paper, tossing out batteries, not recycling orange rinds, using incandescent light bulbs, and setting their hot tub thermostats too high. All [...]

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The big game is over.  The Saints have upset the Colts in Super Bowl XLIV.
Now the real analysis begins, the analysis of best Super Bowl commercials of 2010.  Was it the Betty White commercial?  The E-Trade commercial?
We’ve narrowed down our picks.  You can view the top 10 Super Bowl commercials below.  You can also view [...]

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An Irish radio station has Lady GaGa fans in a furor after running an ad showing the popular singer dead with a sheet over her, apparently having been “speared” by Britney Spears.
104FM is one of the hottest radio stations in Dublin but its new ad has Lady Gaga fans seething. GaGa gets gruesomely killed [...]

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