The big daily paper in N.E. Miss pissed off one of its biggest advertisers so bad that the advertiser pumped money into the creation of a rival newspaper to compete with it. The advertiser's slogan was "GOOD STUFF CHEAP!!"... at some point it put together a big ad for swimwear and beachwear using local high school girls as models. So the ad runs with the finest local examples of taut virginal local femininity all wearing bikinis and short-shorts and suchlike, under the enormous banner "GOOD STUFF CHEAP!!" The advertiser was pissed at the paper for failing to anticipate how stupid they'd look, even though the ad was the company's idea.
― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:20 (nineteen years ago)