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Marketers increasingly use commingling of languages for ads A billboard on U.S. Highway 77/83 reads, "Our huevos are bigger." The bigger huevos are the subject of a Stripes' convenient store advertisement for its in-store restaurant, the Laredo Taco Company. The sign's clever use of bilingual double entendre has caused quite a stir on this stretch of the Texas-Mexico border, in addition to being a source of amusement for some. The success of the sign hinges on the Spanish word huevo, which literally translates as egg and figuratively refers to a part of the male anatomy. The commingling of Spanish and...

"Don't believe in God?" a bright blue billboard with images of puffy white clouds asks. "You are not alone."The 20-by-60-foot sign alongside I-95 was designed by a group of area atheists as an invitation to join the Greater Philadelphia Coalition of Reason, or PhillyCoR, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports."If you don't ... [h]undreds of thousands of your neighbors in the Delaware Valley feel the same as you do," the organization's website declares.Steve Rade, president of Wireless Accessories, Inc., gave the $22,500 to fund the billboard May 1, and he plans to keep it there until the end of August."Our mission is...

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A pro-life group in Texas is drawing attention to the Abortion Breast Cancer link and Planned Parenthood's relationship with the Susan G. Komen Foundation with a new billboard that raises serious questions -- and is drawing fire. Pro-Life Waco has set up a billboard on the 1700 block of Franklin Avenue that poses suggestive questions: "What? An abortion increases my risk for breast cancer? Why does the Komen Race grant $45,000 to Waco's Planned Parenthood abortion provider?" The billboard also shows a concerned woman and has a pink background –- a color now associated with the breast cancer awareness campaigns...

Seattle drivers, what do you make of this? The billboard, which faces south from the corner of Western Avenue and Denny Way, states that it was funded by something called "Concerned Citizens for a Better America." You won't find the group's name on Google, except in a wayward comment thread or two. The group is not registered as a Political Action Committee or with the Washington Secretary of State's corporation division. Nor does it have to be -- based on this billboard, anyway -- because its message neither mentions a candidate by name nor appears too close to election time....

A Republican candidate for the District 22 congressional seat will be getting a lot of attention today with a very unique campaign ad. By KTRH's August Skamenca Monday, February 25, 2008 It's yet to be seen just whether it's negative or in his favor. Now in the private sector, Brian Klock remains a commander in the US Navy Reserve. He's an underdog candidate trying to gain new ground. Later Monday, his campaign will unveil a billboard on the Southwest Freeway near Fountainview. It shows crosshairs trained on downtown Houston, it explodes into a massive orange glow. Klock, a 27-year veteran...

The “I� word is denied in Dallas comment by Jerry GordonPictures are worth a ten thousand words. Contrast these America’s Truth Forum Symposium bill board in Southlake, TX in the Dallas Forth Worth Metroplex. Note the very PC language changes in the two bill board design. The missing “I� word for Islamists says it all. Note this comment from Bob Spencer at Jihad Watch: Why the changes? The sales manager of a Dallas-area billboard company explained: “My boss wouldn’t go along with this type of advertising since we have an international clientele — some of whom might be on...

Questions About Allah? Billboard May Help New Ad Near 1-84 Promotes The Site Of What Will Become The State's Largest Mosque By ANN MARIE SOMMA Courant Staff Writer December 23, 2007 Drivers traveling west on I-84 are invited to turn east — toward Mecca. A billboard promoting Islam near the Cheshire exit, and only a short distance from the construction of what will be the largest mosque in the state, encourages drivers to call a toll-free number to learn about the world's second largest religion. The Connecticut chapter of the Islamic Circle of North America, which paid for the...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- New Yorker Alison Wilson was walking down Prince Street in SoHo last week when she heard a woman's voice right in her ear asking, "Who's there? Who's there?" She looked around to find no one in her immediate surroundings. Then the voice said, "It's not your imagination." Indeed it isn't. It's an ad for "Paranormal State," a ghost-themed series premiering on A&E this week. The billboard uses technology manufactured by Holosonic that transmits an "audio spotlight" from a rooftop speaker so that the sound is contained within your cranium. The technology, ideal for museums and libraries...

"We will defend what is ours We shall never surrender" -Kosovo Is Serbia- Oficial Serbian Gov. bilboard

LEWIS COUNTY, Wash. - A longstanding controversial billboard in Lewis County is once again garnering attention. Over the years, the owner has used the board to air his opinions about everything from politicians to homosexuality. The latest message is raising deep concerns in the local Hispanic community. The grinning face of Uncle Sam is what drivers usually see first. Then the written message on the billboard near I-5 gets clearer: "No Mexican Olympic teams?? All the runners and swimmers are here!" Owner of the billboard Mike Hamilton, who did not want to go on camera, says he's trying to deliver...

There's a poll on the righthand margin of this site about whether they should continue the tasteless "edgy" ads, or simply stick to the facts. This is a picture of the pro-abortion ad.

Abortion Billboard Trucks Cause Media Uproar, Provoke Pro-Abortion Advocate to Publicly Debate Issue By Elizabeth O'BrienCALGARY, August 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Less than one week after the Canada Center for Bioethical Reform (CCBR) launched its pro-life, Reproductive "Choice" Campaign (RCC), featuring massive billboards of aborted fetuses on the sides of transport trucks, the media is still going haywire over the initiative.Following top-secret routes through the city, the trucks will be weaving through the streets of Calgary for an indefinite period of time. The images are approximately 11-meters long and display the torn-up limbs of a first trimester aborted fetus. The...

Billboard depicting Hezbollah's controversial leader removed CanWest News Service Published: Monday, August 13, 2007 WINDSOR, Ont. - The billboard depicting Hezbollah's controversial leader, which caused an uproar across Windsor, was quietly replaced Monday morning with an advertisement for a car dealership. The sign was erected Friday morning and immediately drew fire from the Windsor Jewish Community Centre and the Lebanese Christian political group Kataeb. Among other Lebanese leaders, the sign prominently depicted Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the political and military group representing Shia Muslims. View Larger Image A woman, who wishes to be identified as Ghina takes a photo...

Members of the Jewish and Lebanese Christian communities in Windsor are outraged by the appearance of a billboard that appears to promote Hezbollah -- an organization the Canadian government considers terrorist. "That organization is banned in Canada," said Harvey Kessler, executive director of the Windsor Jewish Community Centre. "How can that billboard be up in Windsor when it represents a terrorist organization which is banned under the laws of Canada?" Located at the southwest corner of Marion Avenue and Wyandotte Street East, the billboard does not mention Hezbollah by name, but features a central image of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader...

CALGARY, August 9, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In contrast with the media blackout that pro-life Canadians are used to expecting at their demonstrations, media coverage of the Reproductive Choice Campaign trucks rolling on Calgary streets this week has been lively. The trucks feature three-metre high photos of aborted children and an email address for more information. Local papers and radio stations were joined by CBC and Global News who took video footage, while CTV News Calgary has run a two-minute television news spot three times in the last two days and included the sponsoring group's website address. This coverage constitutes a...

RUSH: There's a story now here from the Virginia Pilot newspaper. "For years, campaigns to stop child sexual crimes have focused on encouraging children to speak up about abuse. State health officials are trying a new tactic. The latest push, at least in Hampton Roads, is to educate adults on how to spot - and stop - sexual offenders. The 'Stop It Now' campaign - just launched locally - will urge people to call a help line if they see an adult whom they suspect of having a sexual relationship with a child. Billboards --" and I've got the picture...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) - Chesapeake police are asking the community to keep an eye out for a cow statue stolen from a billboard _ and the person who ran the polka-dot pajamas the animal was wearing up the flagpole at an area restaurant. You read that right: A cow was stolen wearing polka-dot jammies. Authorities said on April 9 they received a call that a Fiberglas Chick-fil-A statue formerly attached to a billboard was in the middle of the highway. The billboard, reading "Shav Showr Eat Chikin," is part of an advertising campaign by the Chick-fil-A franchise in which playful...

Apparently, somebody in Baltimore isn't a fan of Rush Limbaugh. A large billboard advertising local air times for the conservative radio talk-show host has been defaced.

In the culture war between good and evil, decency and debauchery and class versus crass, a billboard along the Northwest Tollway has flip-flopped. For a few weeks, commuters making the trip from Chicago to the Northwest suburbs were subjected to a crude outdoor advertisement that recycled a risque, old joke. “Liquor in Schaumburg, poker in Vegas,” read the giant can’t-miss-it ad for Hooters, the restaurant chain that has managed to turn a sophomoric slang for women’s breasts into an eatery empire.

(from the site...) Islam and America What do these two words have in common? Are they terms of conflict, or are they compatible? Islam is the fastest growing system of faith in America and the world. There is no question about this. There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, and there are already, 8-10 million Muslims in North America. As a direct result of the 9/11 tragedy, and several international conflicts, Islam and Muslims have been severely distorted and misunderstood. WHAT IS THE TRUTH? America is the world’s superpower and the most advanced country in the world. Its citizens...

Up in time for Secretary Rice's visit to Crawford, Texas, is the first Condi 2008 billboard of many to come. The billboard is located on Highway 84 in McGregor, TX on the way to the "ranch" in Crawford. The Billboard, paid for by volunteers working with the 527 Political Organization, "Americans for Dr. Rice", went up Thursday about five hours before the President, and his entourage, landed in Waco for the trip to Crawford for his 10 day vacation. And, one day after CNN reported a 62% national approval rating for the Secretary of State and only a 27% disapproval...

A conservative nonprofit organization called grassfire.org has put up a billboard on Tucson's Southside that says, "Stop the Invasion. Secure our borders." This billboard went up Friday and will be up for 30 days. You can see it from Interstate 10 at the 6th Avenue exit. Steve Elliott, president of grassfire.org says, "I think those six words express the sentiment of literally millions of people and I would say the vast majority of people in Tucson." Grassfire raised roughly $150,000 to put 12 of the billboards in 7 states. Elliott says the purpose is to educate. He says, "In fact,...

A Confederate heritage group says its free-speech rights were violated when a landowner removed a billboard promoting Southern history near the famed Darlington Raceway. The Sons of Confederate Veterans plans to demonstrate at the State House next month and buy radio advertisements to complain about losing its billboard on U.S. 52, about two miles from the racetrack. “This is the most chilling thing I’ve seen against freedom of speech,” spokesman Don Gordon said. The Sons of Confederate Veterans bought the billboard this spring in response to remarks by a NASCAR executive about the rebel flag. The billboard featured a Confederate...

For two weeks, on a billboard near downtown Houston, a radiant, blond Jesus hoisted a can of Budweiser. "King of Jews," the text proclaimed. "King of Beers." Clear Channel Outdoor, which owns the billboard at La Branch and Winbern, says the professional-looking ad wasn't paid for. Essentially, a company spokesman said, the billboard — like at least two others in the past two months — was hijacked. And it's been getting lots of attention. The tag line has been one of the most searched items on Google the past few days. And Technorati, an engine that searches blogs, lists more...

7/11/06 - KTRK/HOUSTON) - Sophisticated graffiti artists have left their mark near downtown Houston. Someone covered up a billboard on La Branch at Winbern with a poster featuring a picture of Jesus Christ holding a Budweiser can. The company that leases the billboard believes vandals made the poster at home and then pasted it on top of the ad that's supposed to be there. It shows Jesus holding a Budweiser in between the phrases "Jesus, King of Jews" and "Jesus, King of Beers." "I thought that was just crazy," said commuter Jose Cazares. "It looks professional too."Neighbors say the billboard...

The mayor of a small Bergen County, New Jersey town is calling for a McDonald's boycott if the fast-food chain does not take down a Spanish-language billboard.... Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan said the advertisement is "offensive" and "divisive"......"The true things that bind us together as neighbors and community is our belief in the American flag and our common language," Lonegan said. "And when McDonald's sends a different message, that we're going to be different now, that causes resentment." Representatives for McDonald's and CBS Outdoor in New York, the company that owns the billboard on River Road in Bogota, defended the...

Hopefully it won't startle anyone driving down Chicago's Kennedy Expressway into an accident, but none less than St Jude begins his run today as the Windy City's newest traffic service. A billboard blaring the message "St Jude Knows an Alternate Route" has been posted on the wall of St Stanislaus' church along the Kennedy to further plug Jim Martin SJ's My Life With the Saints (Loyola), which is about to go into its fourth printing after only three months of release. Over the course of summer, other messages -- including "St. Joseph Says Construction Takes Patience" and "St. Joan...

Billboard I saw on the way home advertising for the UMC: If you can wish, you an believe.

DUARTE, Calif. -- A billboard seeking to encourage the public to call Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., to persuade her to support legislation intended to reduce illegal immigration was unveiled Thursday by an online group. The billboard, located adjacent to the westbound Foothill (210) Freeway in Duarte, has an outline of the U.S.-Mexico border, the phrases "Stop The Invasion" and "Secure Our Borders" and the telephone number of Boxer's Los Angeles office. The billboard was rented by funds donated by California members of the online group Grassfire.org, according to Steve Elliott, its founder and president. "This is an invasion that American...

DENVER -- The debate over illegal immigration is literally up in the air in Denver. Two billboards are bringing new attention to this explosive issue.

Dave Penny isn’t shy. Everybody knows he thinks evolution is a bunch of hooey. So when a group of Johnson County businessmen asked him to help put up a billboard that poked fun at evolution, he said OK. “I’m just a point man,” said Penny, who lives in Lawrence and served on the City Commission from 1989 to 1991. The group’s members, he said, don’t want their names in the newspaper. “They’re not scientific types,” he said. “They’re businessmen. They don’t want to get beat up like the State Board of Education did.” The billboard, near the 151st Street exit...

HAVANA - Bulldozers dug up a street in front of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana on Wednesday apparently preparing to block the view of an electronic billboard carrying human rights messages that has angered President Fidel Castro . Brigades of workers began the task on Tuesday night, hours after Castro and hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched past the mission to protest against the five-foot-high (1.5- meter) ticker that streams messages across the facade of the U.S. Interests Section. U.S. diplomats said Cuba‘s communist authorities were building a concrete wall or screen to obstruct view of the ticker, which...

When Cpl. Michael Montemayor dashed into enemy fire to pull a fellow Marine from a stinking canal in the southern Iraq city of Nasiriya in March 2003, he wasn't exactly thinking of becoming the Marine Corps poster boy. "I was just doing my job," the 30-year-old San Jose native, who was later promoted to sergeant and has since left the Corps, said Friday. "My mission was to get my Marines home." Nevertheless, posters bearing Montemayor's image -- billboards, actually -- will be going up in about 20 locations around the Bay Area, beginning this week. They will bear his name...

VIENNA, Austria - Her Majesty would not have been amused. Neither would President Bush or his French counterpart, Jacques Chirac, over a Vienna-wide art project depicting them naked and engaged in a sexual act with British Queen Elizabeth II. The work of “euroPART,” an independent artists’ group, the scenes being displayed on electronic billboards across the Austrian capital were also embarrassing for the government just days before the country assumes the European Union’s rotating presidency Sunday. Austrian media reported that the offending images were yanked Wednesday — just a day after they started flashing at motorists — on personal orders...

December 19, 2005, 3:30 PM ET Hard-line president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has banned Western music from Iran's radio and TV stations, reviving one of the harshest cultural decrees from the early days of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Songs such as George Michael's "Careless Whisper," Eric Clapton's "Rush" and the Eagles' "Hotel California" have regularly accompanied Iranian broadcasts, as do tunes by saxophonist Kenny G. But the official IRAN Persian daily reported today (Dec. 19) that Ahmadinejad, as head of Iran's Supreme Cultural Revolutionary Council, ordered the enactment of an October ruling by the council to ban Western music. "Blocking indecent and...

You can't get liberals to take up arms against the enemy, but you can sure get them riled when you point that out to America. Recently this billboard went up in the Atlanta area...More

Planned Billboard Angers Arab Americans By NATALIE GOTT, Associated Press Writer 8 minutes ago A group that is trying to tighten the standards for obtaining driver's licenses has come under fire for plans to post a billboard with a picture of an Arab clutching a grenade and a North Carolina license. "The message of the ad says that Arabs are dangerous and violent people and that therefore they should not get driver's licenses, and I think that is bigoted. It's racist," said Christine Saah Nazer, spokeswoman for the Washington-based Arab American Institute. Amanda Bowman, president of the New York-based Coalition...

Billboard campaign honors Hometown Heroes Submitted by: 12th Marine Corps District Story Identification #: 2005126153019 Story by Sgt. T.L. Carter-Valrie HELENA, Mont. (Nov. 29, 2005) -- Marines, young and old, gathered in the capital city to unveil the first Hometown Heroes billboard at a ribbon cutting ceremony Nov. 29. Despite bone-chilling weather, the event drew out national, state, and city officials, as well as many local business owners, community leaders and other great supporters of the armed services. Sergeant Jonathan Ayersman, who grew up in Montana, was the first Marine to be honored with a Hometown Heroes billboard for heroic...

WASHINGTON — An advertising company that gives most of its political donations to Republicans has refused to put up billboards criticizing Rep. Jean Schmidt, an Ohio Republican. The Democratic National Committee had sought to rent two billboards in Portsmouth, Ohio, and another in Cincinnati with a picture of Schmidt and the message: “Shame on you, Jean Schmidt: Stop attacking veterans. Keep your eye on the ball — we need a real plan for Iraq.” Lamar Advertising Co. of Baton Rouge, La., owns the billboards. Schmidt attacked Rep. John Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat who is a Marine veteran, for his call...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An advertising company that gives most of its political donations to Republicans blocked the Democratic National Committee from putting up billboards criticizing GOP Rep. Jean Schmidt of Ohio. Lamar Advertising Co. of Baton Rouge, La., refused to put up two billboards in Portsmouth, Ohio, and another in Cincinnati with a picture of Schmidt and the following message: "Shame on you, Jean Schmidt: Stop attacking veterans. Keep your eye on the ball - we need a real plan for Iraq."The billboards are the result of 7,000 donations, DNC executive director Tom McMahon said, after Schmidt attacked Pennsylvania Rep....

Users of a city mosque are angry after an advert for a "gentlemen's club" went up opposite their prayer room. The picture of a scantily-clad woman has been plastered across a billboard in Conduit Street, Leicester, opposite the Central Mosque. Muslims who worship there said they found it offensive. Owners of the Aviary club said they had not received an official complaint but did not want to cause offence. Gul Mohammed, who works at the mosque, said: "It's not the kind of thing you want to see when you are doing your prayers. "Also, when people - men, women and...

Holstein heisted from Chick-fil-A billboard By JOANNE KIMBERLIN, The Virginian-Pilot © October 8, 2005 CHESAPEAKE There's been a high-altitude rustlin'. One of only two full-size Chick-fil-A cows in these parts has been swiped off a 50-foot-high billboard overlooking Interstate 464 in northern Chesapeake. Workers for Adams Outdoor Advertising noticed the 500-pound fiberglass cow missing Tuesday. It's the first time Chick-fil-A has lost a local cow, but about a dozen have been heisted elsewhere. Ransom demands and mysterious "moo " phone calls have sometimes followed. So far, there's been no word of such activity here. "It's kind of funny," said Chick-fil-A's...

As President Bush addressed the United Nations Wednesday, a new advertising campaign blasting the world organization was going on just outside the UN's New York City headquarters. While the UN began celebrating its 60th anniversary, signs reading "Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60" were plastered on locations surrounding the Turtle Bay building. The advertisements for a new, in-depth documentary on UN failures were purchased by the Citizens United Foundation (view the trailer here). The ad campaign was timed to begin Wednesday as 170 heads of state gathered in NYC for the United Nations World Summit. The ads are located...

Pennsylvania Republicans are threatening the Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania (YCOP) for sponsoring a public information campaign exposing a hefty pay raise passed for lawmakers, judges and top executive-branch officials. On July 7 at 2 a.m., state legislators voted to give themselves a pay increase of more than 30% without debate. YCOP is demanding repeal.

A conservative group's test-marketing of the power of the anti-pay-raise message against entrenched legislative leaders is starting at the top: radio ads attacking Senate President Pro Tem Robert Jubelirer, R-Blair, as "Bob Jubelirer, raising our taxes and his salary since 1975," will start airing Aug. 15 in the lawmaker's district. And a billboard will go up on I-70 near Altoona in the next 10 days showing Jubelirer's face and the words "Sen. Jubelirer voted to raise his own pay to $145,463. A 34% increase. Bigger pay for bigger government. InformedPA.com ." ... The anti-Jubelirer billboard and the radio ads are...

Nielsen BDS-monitored airplay data for both XM and Sirius Satellite Radio will contribute to the Billboard Radio Monitor mainstream top 40 chart, beginning with the issue dated Aug. 19. Sirius Radio’s top 40 flagship, “Sirius Hits-1,”and XM’s top 40 “Top 20 on 20” will now be factored into Billboard Radio Monitor's print and online mainstream top 40 chart. The mainstream top 40 panel previously consisted of 116 terrestrial radio stations in 99 markets. “This is an important development in the expansion of the Billboard charts. Satellite radio, like other emerging technology acknowledges yet another new way music fans are listening...

This is what the homosexual movement (and the sign company, ClearChannel) thinks of the American Flag. This advertises a pornographic homosexual website for "hooking up." But it's more than that. We warned you: Legally sanctioned gay "marriage" is the green light to push this in your face -- in the schools, government, businesses, and the public square. This is also about desensitizing you and your family to homosexuality. When will you and your children drive by this in your neighborhood? This is just the beginning. The sign company (making money thru social decay): Clear Channel Communications Stoneham, Massachusetts (Regional Office)...

 Man Ambushed by Own Personal AdSunday, July 24, 2005Lance Archibald got the shock of his life the other day while heading down the freeway.There alongside Interstate 15 in Lindon, Utah, was a billboard bearing his own smiling face — and the words "I'm Lance! Let's go out!""His eyes got bigger, and he leaned forward and said, 'What in the world?'" Archibald's co-worker Noelle Bates told the Deseret Morning News.Turns out his colleagues at Lindon-based LogoWorks, a graphic-design firm, thought Lance, at 31, was getting a bit long in the tooth to stay single — and created the very visible personal...