"6+6+06: You have been warned" and "6+6+06: The signs are all around you" billboards in LA

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Who are the ad wizards who came up with these?

― van igloo (van smack), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

they're in NYC too.
they're for some dumb movie.
not all that original advertising.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

It's a pretty ineffective gimmick too -- usually people stop wondering what the date means after a day or two and forget entirely by the time the event actually occurs. Besides, what do you think generates more excitement, "Ooh, the teasers for that movie look awesome!" or "Gee, I wonder what movie is going to come out on June 6?"

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

It's an ad for the new album by AFI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decemberunderground

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

aw, i was hoping it was for the national day of slayer.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

xpost That's even worse. "Holy shit! Rock band to release new album!"

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

What a way to advertise, by not really advertising.

― van igloo (van smack), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 01:47 (nineteen years ago)

i'm sure the schizophrenics are digging them.

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

Or maybe it's the remake of The Omen. Hmm. Sorry.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

you sure this aint for coulter's new book?

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

GABBO! GABBO!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

It's definitely for the omen.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

6-6-06 is my birthday. BEWARE.

― not sure about pickles (Jacqui Pickles), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

My husband's birthday is 6/6 and he was born at 6 a.m. He's inordinately proud of that.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

awesome.

i for one will most assuredly be celebrating national Slayer day!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

\m/

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

pfff. my birthday is December 6 i.e. 6+6/6 I'm fucking Satan every year.

― DOQQUN (donut), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 04:36 (nineteen years ago)

No, you're on St Lucia's day which means in Sweden you are a little girl in a nightie holding a candle, jumping over other candles.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 06:44 (nineteen years ago)

Now THAT I'd like to see photos of ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 06:45 (nineteen years ago)

pfff. my birthday is December 6 i.e. 6+6/6 I'm fucking Satan every year.

what do you do the rest of the year?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, you don't want to know.

― DOQQUN (donut), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

Remaking The Omen ? a good idea?

― caek (caek), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

The trailer with him sitting on the swing is much freakier than the other one.

Although Mr. Kobayashi looks good as a priest.

― Big Loud Ape Mountain (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

The second trailer makes it look too BANG CRASH WALLOP. The first trailer is ridiculously good. I'll watch it regardless, but I'm not expecting much.

― caek (caek), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

(from THE OMEN trivia on imdb)

As part of its pre-release publicity campaign, and to point out the significance of "the three sixes" as The Sign of Satan, the movie was sneak-previewed nationwide in the USA on 6 June 1976. While audiences inside the theatres were being scared witless by the film, theatre employees were out front, busily putting up specially made posters declaring: "Today is the SIXTH day of the SIXTH month of Nineteen-Seventy-SIX!" Hokey though it was, the gimmick worked quite well, as many a theatre patron literally "freaked-out" upon seeing those posters as they left the previews.

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― pisces (piscesx), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

How does a patron literally "freak-out"? Did her nose fall off and her ears grow six inches?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

They started putting hyphens between words that weren't supposed to have them?

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

And thus somehow executed an adjective or noun rather than a verb?

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, that would be pretty wild, if a movie patron suddenly sensitive or overwhelming. "Did you see what that woman just did? She elliptical!"

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

6/6/06 is so fucking tenuous. "Ooooh it's really satanic if you ignore the zero". And the real number of the beast is 616, innit?

― Doktor Faustus (noodle vague), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

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