Posted on 03/02/2018 11:39:39 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
It's not the alcohol playing tricks on your eyes: The striding figure on some bottles of Johnnie Walker scotch will be Jane Walker. Liquor maker Diageo says it plans to roll out bottles next month for a limited run. Diageo says it's the first time in the brand's nearly 200-year history that the logo has been depicted as a woman.
It's the latest gender change for a famous pitch figure: Last month, KFC started airing commercials with country star Reba McEntire playing the role of Col. Sanders. And Brawny briefly sold paper towels with a woman in a plaid shirt, instead of the usual Brawny dude.
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“...and we drink alone...”
After a bottle, her middle name is Needa
so she’s Lesbian
I don't care what they do with the label design, but you're right, something's amiss with the Gold Label.
I still keep some around, but it's nothing special.
Moved on to Hibiki for the most part.
Legs spread. Good ole Jane.
Touche! On Point!
Mensa level!
They paid some Ad-Exec for big bucks and he missed the target.
I was thinking Marlene Dietrich.
Why ‘Jane’? Johnnie could be a girl’s name.................
“Johnnie Walker...Pink?”
my exact thought ... AND the liquor is REALLY pink!
Are they going to sell it for 77 cents on the dollar? /j
Next they’ll be calling manual transmissions snatch-sticks.
So it’s a women in drag (1820’s men’s garb). I don’t buy Johnny Walker, I think I’ll keep doing that.
I remember seeing that picture when I was a kid, in the first book I ever read about the Battle of the Atlantic.
Commander Frederick “Johnny” Walker — a worthy inheritor of Nelson.
Do you need to see old established brand names of scotch changed to pander to women? Does that make you buy more of it or like it any better?
Payback is a bear.....
https://cdn1.thr.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/portrait_300x450/2015/06/caitlyn_jenner_vanity_fair.jpg
remember the brawny commercial the women was a parody of a lesbian Bull dike. I use this term because when the commercial was shot it was the common use term with in our culture invented by the LGB community in san Francisco . now 35 years later its an insult.
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