Friday, August 25, 2006

STOP THE PRESSES -- ooops, too late

Get hold of the new Ikea catalogue -- 'cause they're being recalled; not that the company will be able to get them back from those they were mailed to.

In what is among the finest bits of corporate sabatoge ever, flip open the double front cover and take a look at the hind end of the dog laying on the couch with the happy family.

A disgruntled layout designer has placed there a human penis. And it's not like you gotta squint and hold the magazine at any weird angle under black light to see it -- it's there and it's not a weird bend of the dog's skin or leg, it's a graphic designer's revenge, it's a man's penis on a dog.

WAH!

3 Comments:

Blogger B. McKechnie said...

See a scan of the page here:

http://bamcat.typepad.com/bamcat/2006/08/swedish_sausage.html

Funniest thing ever!

-Brian

1:24 PM  
Blogger Heipel said...

For the record a spokesperson for Ikea states in today's Globe and Mail that it is the dog's leg regardless of what it may look like and that any word about disgruntled employees is just not true.

For the record, if I had any doubts about whether it was a man's penis on a dog through the wonders of photoshop, or a disgruntled staffer behind the penis (ah, so to speak), following the PR denials from Ikea, I, myself a PR flak, now fully believe it is a man's penis and that it was placed there by a disgruntled employee. I know PR denial-speak when I seeze it.

4:12 PM  
Blogger maggie said...

Hummmmmmm.......... dog's leg or man's penis?
You'd have to be legally blind not to be able to tell the difference.
If it was the the dog's leg,it would be lifted up,pissing on all those PR folks. :)

6:21 PM  

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