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Alternative colouring kit

Posted on 27. Oct, 2006 by Jonathan Cherry.

At last – a solution for a problem, which has been bothering the sleep out of us for some time now.

Betty Beauty is the name of a hair coloring made especially for pubic hair. 

Apparently
many hair salons have made the practice of providing women with a little home sample of hair coloring to match the coloring they just got put on their
heads. So, some woman decided why not sell a product like
this over-the-counter.

Voila, Betty Beauty was born.

Nothing gives your new head hair colour more credibility than a corresponding colour match in the pubic region. Why this was only thought of now, is beyond us.

We’ll wait for it to be available in leopard print before we order a stash.

Website: Betty Beauty
[Via]

Yo…fugly!

Posted on 27. Oct, 2006 by Jonathan Cherry.

In Cape Town’s ongoing quest to be just like our big boetie Joburg – the fashion flying squad have now been called in to help.

And from tomorrow, if you’re a style slacker – a dolly in a stealthy catsuit is going to issue your sorry self with this pink fine.

If you do manage to get busted for not matching your lip gloss with your veld skoen – please don’t go off the rails and hijack busses or insist a kind officers dust your mug with police brand tear gas.
Its apparently all part of a campaign to get you to go to Cavendish Square sometime in the near future.

Not too sure how kingly us placid Capetonians are going to take to being called nasty.
Some of these offenses look like standard dress code for a Saturday morning.

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Designer limited edition flash drives

Posted on 26. Oct, 2006 by Jonathan Cherry.

Safer than a home pole-dancing kit, this is the new Chewbacca flash drive, which is the second in the series of Star Wars USB units from Mimoco.

The cool thing is that this geek toy ships with exclusive content from the Star Wars films.

Not too sure if this is already being done, but there seems to be a serious entertainment content business idea here.

What’s to stop these designed drives being sold with movies, music, podcasts etc – or as promotional characters with sponsored content. Can hand them out like sweets at an expo or sell them at airports for that long flight home.

More here – found here.

Peekaboo…I sue you

Posted on 26. Oct, 2006 by Jonathan Cherry.

While Cape Town’s streets burn this morning, the Brits are facing even bigger problems problems of their own.

Seems that the British Shoprite-equivalent , Tesco, are in big dodo over the selling of the Peekaboo pole-dancing kit (pictured here) on their website.

The Tesco Direct site advertises the kit with the words, "Unleash the
sex kitten inside…simply extend the Peekaboo pole inside the tube,
slip on the sexy tunes and away you go!

The £49.97 (R670) kit comprises a chrome pole extendible to 8ft 6ins, a ’sexy
dance garter’ and a DVD demonstrating suggestive dance moves.

The kit, condemned as ‘extremely dangerous’ by family
campaigners yesterday, was discovered by mother of two Karen Gallimore
who was searching for Christmas gifts for her two daughters, Laura 10,
and Sarah, 11.

Apart from the obvious fun we could have pulling this story apart, the Peekaboo kits seems like a fine product idea.
And don’t worry too much about the kids folks – that Britney Spears DVD you got the brats last Christmas more than educated then enough to give you lot lessons.

Get a pole, sit down and worry about your kids seeing the crap on CNN. That’s dangerous.

Tesco condemned for selling pole dancing toy – Daily Mail

Website: Peekaboo

CD Wherehouse brand gets binned

Posted on 26. Oct, 2006 by Jonathan Cherry.

As far as real world music retail goes – we really used to like CD Wherehouse.
The Waterfront store was always full of of geezers that called each other ‘Dad’ and ‘Cat’…and some of the customers were fairly laid back too.

But now, CD Wherehouse have been swallowed up by the Musica monster, who plan to ignite their own special brand of music appreciation in the existing locations by launching Musica Megastores.

But here’s the real prize inside. If you carefully read the statements posted on the CD Wherehouse website – clearly the two parties have been talking past each other with regard to the strategy going forward.

The CD Wherehouse statement indicates great new developments online, while the Musica corporate banter says nothing about any e-commerce venture and seems to have been written sometime in the early 90’s.

A Musica Megastore? Doesn’t Musica employ the services of a trend tracker – or someone who at least reads a local blog or too now and again?
Tower records in the US is dead, Look and Listen have halved the size of stores, people are sharing music like playing cards and they think physical megastores are the way forward?

We don’t understand?

See:

CD Wherehouse online statement
Goodbye, CD Wherehouse; hello, Musica Megastore – Mail & Guardian

Previously:

Its only a matter of time – Cherryflava
Undersound: Music sharing goes underground – Cherryflava

Designer band-aids

Posted on 25. Oct, 2006 by Jonathan Cherry.

Wiping off your high-speed stroller just got a whole herd more fun.

Why heal wounds with those old sanitary looking band-aids if you can work a juicy strip of bacon into your gash.

Or maybe a nice sushi bandage would explain why the tip of your index finger is missing.

Whatever your choice – there’s a designed strip for your needs.

Hopefully the medical high jinks don’t stop there. There are still boring IV bags, ECG monitors and OR rooms that need a good design makeover.

Kissing lips, skulls and cowboys
Fashion bandages

[via the cool hunter]

More bagvertising

Posted on 25. Oct, 2006 by Jonathan Cherry.

More ‘free marketing’ packaging ideas for retailers. [Many thanks to Wesleigh and Achan]

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Coke thieves try help Pepsi be better

Posted on 25. Oct, 2006 by Jonathan Cherry.

Two idiots have pleaded guilty to trying to steal the world’s most protected trade secret – the recipe for Coke.

Together with a secretary at the Coca Cola Co. the two tried to pinch the formula and sell it to Pepsi.

Ibrahim Dimson and Edmund Duhaney both could face up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine when they’re sentenced January 29.

But – this has to be a very clever marketing strategy from Coke’s side. Read the report carefully and the plan becomes glaringly obvious.

Why would a secretary have access to a secret which only God is privilaged to know?
Why were these two – and the secretary – not immediately ‘taken care of’ by Coke secret agents?
Sell the formula to Pepsi? – Pepsi should sue for that kind of defamation.

$250 000 is pocket money for this kind of exposure for Coke. Very crafty.

Read: 2 admit plot to steal Coke’s secrets – CNN

Have you lost your mind?

Posted on 25. Oct, 2006 by Jonathan Cherry.

We’re not sure which is more shocking. The fact that we live in a country where we fight a deadly disease like AIDS with Italian food, accompanied by a Gordon Ramsey-style beetroot, rocket and olive oil infused salad – or these German AIDS awareness ads that sport the copy: "It’s easy to lose your head when you’re horny."

More after the jump…

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Tankball: Paintball’s 2.0

Posted on 24. Oct, 2006 by Jonathan Cherry.

The British are spending way too much time invading and playing war games in small desert countries.

Seems that in the UK, the stinging game of ‘paintball’ has evolved into ‘tankball’.

For just $139, you get two hours of tank battle time to decorate your loser opponent tank and you can have
up to three buddies inside your vehicle.

We once knew a guy who was a tank commander in the SADF.
He had so much fun doing the real thing he wouldn’t even let sleep come between him and memories of blasting the gearbox out of another foe.

After charging around with half a ton of loaded paint onboard – its going to be hard to ever go back to running around with those little air pipe things.

More: Weapons of mass decoration – Daily Mail
[Via Gizmodo]