One from The BBC that would have been damned amusing to get a photograph of :
An advertising firm has apologised for placing a billboard for a TV show called The Walking Dead on the side of a funeral parlour.
The unintended, “unfortunate juxtaposition” caused raised eyebrows in Consett, County Durham.
The roadside advert for the Channel 5 post-apocalyptic drama has since been removed from the exterior wall of the Co-operative Funeralcare premises.
You can just imagine the bereaved setting off for a viewing, seeing that on the side of the building and wondering if they need wodden stakes.
Shame they used a poster devoid of zombies as that would have been perfect :
The cringing apology from the poster company wasn’t so funny. When did people get so utterly terrified of giving ‘offence’?
Oh. Right.
Julia – apologies seem to come thick and fast for no apprent reason these days almost to the point of being an expected space filler with no actual meaning.
At least with situations like the advert on the undertakers you get to laugh twice – once for the original act and secondly at all the offended who spring from nowhere to rend their garments in public whilst chanting “something must be done.”
Henry – I like those kind of business names. I think it was called nominative determinism by New Scientist some years ago when they were looking for a term to decribe people doing jobs appropriate to their surnames.
When I lived in Wynberg, Cape Town there was a firm of undertakers called Human & Pitt.
Always made me laugh…