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(claymore found this, too funny to keep to ourselves.)
KXMA News March 18, 2004
Toll-free number on lottery ticket machines leads to sex talk line
It turns out a toll free number posted on lottery ticket terminals at nearly 400 sites statewide is incorrect.
The 800 number is meant for retailers who have questions about the lottery. But it refers callers to another number. The second number is a sex talk line.
State lottery spokeswoman Eileen Walsh says it was a misprint. The wrong prefix was used. Instead of an 800 prefix -- the number should have carried an 877 prefix.
Walsh says it's been corrected, and new stickers are going out today. A retailer told the attorney general's office about the problem.
Attorney general spokeswoman Liz Brocker says officials are sending out stickers with the correct number.
The lottery starts a week from today.
With thousands of links to the advert sent by email, as well as being picked up by a number of websites, the campaign has shown swearing is fast losing its taboo status among the television audience.
A survey of viewers conducted by the now defunct Broadcasting Standards Authority found that "cunt" was considered far more offensive than any other swear word.
Yes I thionk they are... When it walks like a hoax and talks like a hoax, It might just be a hoax!
That Headvertising link is debated at Metafilter, where most seem to settle on it being a hoax. Thats where I found this link The SunHerald:
Katie Yankura gets some weird stares from her classmates these days. Everything about this freshman at Johnson & Wales University seems normal - except, well, her forehead.
In one of the more unique advertising tricks to date, Yankura works for Headvertise, a new marketing company that pays college students to wear temporary, tattooed advertising messages on their foreheads.
Newspapers have fallen for hoaxes before though..... I wonder what the Guardian thinks of this. :)
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