IBM, what were you thinking?

[giza]

So, I happen to read the ACM Queue. It's an industry magazine for computer professionals. It has informative articles, and overall I consider it to be a pretty respectable publication.

So, imagine my surprise when I opened up a recent issue and saw this ad inside the front cover:



It's uh... kinda uh... a picture of an office full of white sticky stuff... yeah....

I think this is best classified as an advertising idea gone horribly wrong!

Comments

[bikerwalla.livejournal.com]

A man goes to a Psychologist and says, "Doc I got a real problem, I can't stop thinking about sex."
The Psychologist says, "Well let's see what we can find out", and pulls out his ink blots. "What is this a picture of?" he asks.
The man turns the picture upside down then turns it around and states, "That's a man and a woman on a bed making love."

The Psychologist says, "very interesting," and shows the next picture. "And what is this a picture of?"
The man looks and turns it in different directions and says, "That's a man and a woman on a bed making love."

The Psychologists tries again with the third ink blot, and asks the same question, "What is this a picture of?"
The patient again turns it in all directions and replies, "That's a man and a woman on a bed making love."

The Psychologist states, "Well, yes, you do seem to be obsessed with sex."
"Me!?" demands the patient. "You're the one who keeps showing me the dirty pictures!"

[colinlamb.livejournal.com]

I guess my mind is not so much in the gutter today. Until you mentioned it that was not my first impression of what was going on. Now I am looking at it, trying to decide where clowns might be hiding....

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

Naughty naughty. You're supposed to wipe off the keyboard after every use. :)

[ex-purpleca.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of... this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdLa-UQ72rI

[antimon.livejournal.com]

so where is the scan? :)

[antimon.livejournal.com]

oh, never mind, for some reason that image isn't being loaded, probably due to my proxy

[kuddlepup.livejournal.com]

Why does this look like Whitefox to me?

[giza.livejournal.com]

Let's ask him where he was last month. :-)

[doco.livejournal.com]

That your workplace? :)

[giza.livejournal.com]

No.

[ionotter.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

You have successfully transmitted "Staring Daggers of Deathly Doom" through a keyboard and onto a text medium.

You should be proud of that.

[greenreaper.livejournal.com]

IBM's been doing those ads for ages. I liked the tubes one. It was like a habtrail in your cubicle!

Note the guy on the right seems to be enjoying it.

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

MMm.. sploogy

[baccala-30.livejournal.com]

Ooooooooookkkkkkkkkkkk....

[bushrat.livejournal.com]

Somehow, FCHAN is to blame...

[tlttlotd.livejournal.com]

That reminds me uncomfortably of a compromised box I was working on earlier this year.

[miami-pony.livejournal.com]

Man, and I thought -=MY=- keyboard had a lot of jizm on it. Buddy in the front has almost double what I've got.

[wildw0lf.livejournal.com]

This idea is not...rational!