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sinrakin
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Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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 Posted: 08/26/03 - 09:09 Post subject: random retarded news: Sprint phonebooks
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LMAO - they put pictures of poppies, one of the most beautiful flowers, on the covers of their phone books. Then they realized that you can make opium from poppies, duh  All hail political correctness for flowers.
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20030826_632.html
| The Associated Press wrote: | CLERMONT, Fla. Aug. 26 —
Sprint Corp. is remaking phone books distributed in central Florida after learning that the colorful cover art could be sending the wrong message.
The phone book in south Lake County features the magenta petals of the opium-bearing poppy, the flower used to make heroin.
Sprint spokeswoman Darcy Miller said the picture was chosen from stock art for its color and attractiveness but has been deleted and will not be used again.
Workers for Sprint recently distributed thousands of the books to the communities of Clermont, Groveland, Mascotte, Minneola and Montverde.
Miller said no one at the Sprint office in Kansas City, Kan., where the picture was selected, realized that the photograph depicted the poppy until she was contacted by a newspaper. She said the books will not be recalled. |
Come to think of it, humans make bombs and kill people. I hope they don't have any pictures of people in any of their literature.
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flikker
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Joined: 22 Jan 2003
Posts: 199
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Posted: 08/26/03 - 12:08 Post subject:
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Well if this isn't some stupid b******t. Although it does show the power the media holds over companies and there ability to spin something as simple as a picture of flowers into the decline of mankind because the type of flowers are used to derive opiates. What is even more ludicrous is that sprint is going to go along with the twisted erroneous logic of some newspaper.
Since they are adopting this logic, their phone book covers should be a basic black and white generic cover. I mean by this logic any country landscape scene could be misconstrued to a similar situation. After all, soil can be used to grow a whole assortment of fauna that could be used in processing some form of drug that could be abused. But, then again a basic black and white phone book if being analyzed by some one with the same ultra sesitive bleeding heart b******t logic could be construed as a symbol of racial equality being that you have tiny black letters on a sea of white.
Stupid overanalytical fucktards.
Last edited by flikker on 08/26/03 - 12:12; edited 4 times in total
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