Hat tip to Karen L. Myers.

The good part is the surprise sequel.

Hat tip to Jose Guardia.

from Copyranter.

Nando’s, a restaurant chain of South African origin (specializing in Mozambique-Portuguese-style chilli-flavored chicken) recently released a commercial mocking Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe as “The Last Dictator Standing.”

Hat tip to Rafal Heydel-Mankoo.

Too sexy for Puritanical Australia & USA predicts the Sydney Morning Herald. Nonsense.

Because it was thought to offend Christians. Daily Mail.

Aussie realtors Ian Adams and Adrian Jenkins made this advertisement and did sell the property at 15 Queen Anne Court last May.

Hat tip to Theo.

Microsoft’s O365 group takes a nice whack at Google.

Petite Lap Giraffe

I missed the best April Fool’s Day prank of 2011. It was the appearance of the Sokoblovsky Petite Lap Giraffe web-site, complete with Giraffe Cam.

The alleged Petite Lap Giraffe breeder operation, tracing its history back to Czarist times, was praised by Ad Week as:

a great example of taking an awesome random detail from a TV campaign and running with it online. The site, concepted and built by Grey (with The Mill in New York handling special effects), offers lots of great tips on owning a tiny giraffe. “PLG’s love being indoors in filtered air conditioning. If they can listen to music of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov it is dream,” notes the copy, which is all humorously written in broken English. And look, they’re tidy: “PLG’s are very clean. With training they will go in box like cats. Allergies never a problem.” Well, I’m sold. Too bad I’m No. 14,870 on the waiting list, with an expected delivery date 21,000 years in the future.

The ads behind all this were the “Gregor the Russian billionaire” commercials (see below).
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An inspirational advertisement from Bundaberg Rum.

Hat tip to Theo Spark.

With Velvet Underground background. I can’t really watch it myself right now using dial up, but Walter Olson recommended it and I know the song, so I believe it must be amusing.