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Friday, March 05, 2004

Not Sure This is What They Had in Mind 

It's pretty common now for online newspapers to take context-sensitive advertising. Read a story about politics, and you get ads at the bottom of the story for the websites of currently-prominent presidential campaigns, and so on. Also, the ad titles are frequently truncated for space. Sometimes, the combination can be hilarious. Here, from the Wall Street Journal, are three ad headlines and their links:



Women's Pants at...

White Women's Pants:...

Trendy White Women...


And the article that summoned them up:




CASUAL SEX: We're not sure who is handling photos for the Yale Daily News this week, but next to a story on prostitution in its home town of New Haven, Conn., the Ivy paper offered belt-level close-ups of two women--one in half-unzipped hot-pants--only to explain that this was not typical of how New Haven's prostitutes dress. So what fashions do the ladies of the evening favor? According to the photo caption: "Despite popular stereotypes of prostitutes styled after vamped-up call-girls in hot-pants and over-the-knee boots, many New Haven sex workers dress casually in jeans, much like a typical college student."



And they thought Deep Blue was a threat to human predominance.



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