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Saturday, July 4, 2009, 4:31 PM
Mary Rose Rybak

You’ve seen those HSBC ads–you know the ones about perspectives? Like this one:

car

I ran into this sign yesterday on someone’s lawn–posted in the grass like one of those lawn campaign signs–and I couldn’t help but be puzzled. So I’ve developed my own perspectives ad of it.

PeacePrints

What’s your vote?

4 Comments

    Will Pennington
    July 4th, 2009 | 7:58 pm

    I Leave PeacePrints…Beware The Droppings.

    Ethan C.
    July 5th, 2009 | 1:57 pm

    Peaceprint — I think that’s what you do after a five hour car ride, when you finally find a bathroom.

    Miles T
    July 6th, 2009 | 1:31 pm

    Self-congratulating, yes. But smart advertising? You might as well have a lawn sign that says “this house is protected by my luminous appreciation of my own virtue and nothing more.”

    Johnny
    July 6th, 2009 | 9:19 pm

    “I’m stupid, and I want the whole world to know it.” How’s that?