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Reminds me of when my uncle taught me how to fly bees around on a thread.
/memories 

Wow, that company must have generated quite a buzz. 

annoying. Id kill em. 

PETA shows up at 1:46 seconds. 

And I was just thinking "if there was ONLY a way to make advertising more annoying, less effective, and if possible, disease-bearing." 

it's gone viral. malaria. 

I like the quote that says, "What an innovative way to annoy people."

hehe 

I can't believe someone was watching bugs flying around and thought 'hmm.... advertising space." 

would be a great ad campaign in africa... 

Imagine trying to explain to the security force at the trade show building that you NEEDED the dog shit you were bringing in to "keep your sales force happy".. 

Advertinvermin.

Or tell them they were referred to you by a steaming coil. 

I think that was pretty fly.

Also, I should add that the publisher that was advertised is having a fly as amascot for ages.
They actually call themselves "der Verlag mit der Fliege" ("the publisher with the fly").
So it fits perfectly... 

That would really bug me 

easy mid get said:

it's gone viral. malaria.

lulz

But yeah, I think this was pretty ingenious advertising trick. 

The only worthwhile thing a fly has ever done. One small step for humanity, one giant leap for Diptera kind. 

Pretty white for a fly guy! 

Okay. I get it. They attached banners to flies with wax.

BUT HOW?!?

/wants to try this at home 

Cream Soda said:

Okay. I get it. They attached banners to flies with wax.

BUT HOW?!?

/wants to try this at home

They attached banners to flies with wax. 

easy mid get said:

it's gone viral. malaria.

Malaria is caused by a protist, not a virus. Additionally it's transferred by a mosquito, not flies.
/SCIENCE! 

Okay. I get it. They attached banners to flies with wax.

BUT HOW?!?

/wants to try this at home

We use to do this with flys we caught at the fire station. Bernie would make up small flags from world war II and attach them with toothpicks. You just catch some big flys and stick them in the freezer for a little bit. Super glue while said fly is unconcious and voila. Hillarious watching the Nazi's and the British flying around the room :) 

insect cruelty 

That is damned cool. 

Advertising and flies go together like bullets and guns. 

decicco said:

Advertising and flies go together like bullets and guns.

Right, so they were made for each other. . .

or one uses the other to change the face of warfare/mankind/history. . .

or are protected by the Bill of Rights? 

itd be pretty cool if it was advertising soap or deodorant so they would advertise to the smelly people 

We used to do this 30 years ago with bees and super glue. We caught the bees in a bug catcher that had a mesh bottom. We then put the bug catcher over burning paper from leftover firecrackers. You light the paper on fire and then blow it out, it would then smolder and make a lot of smoke. The bees would go to sleep after awhile giving us time to glue the string and banners on. We used toilet paper that we drew flags on like Japanese suns and American flags. We would then put the bees on a wall and after awhile they would just wake up and fly away. We would often imagine that they would return to the hive and the other bees would make fun of them for getting tagged. 

russxl said:

Malaria is caused by a protist, not a virus. Additionally it's transferred by a mosquito, not flies.
/SCIENCE!

Mosquito means little fly in Spanish!
/NONSENSE 

I've never been to Spain.

/USELESSINFO 

Now that I think about it, it makes sense. Flies vomit up their gastric juices to consume their food, There's a lot of synergy to leverage there with marketing. 

StarSys said:

We used to do this 30 years ago with bees and super glue....

Todo:Add StarSys as a topic to wikipedia article under Possible Causes for Colony Collapse Disorder. 

... and to think so many fazerettes gulp this stuff down by the wadful... 

On a more serious note.... Things like this make me believe George Carlin more and more on how advertisers are the scum of the earth. 

Fly-powered plane

You wanna refrigerate the fly first. It hibernates in an immobile state and thus easy to glue onto the plane. Then, it warms up, wakes up and takes off.

David Blane did his stupid "dead fly resurrection" trick by planting a refrigerated fly on a windshield wiper, pretended to "find it" as the nearest dead fly, then blew on it to warm it up and bring it to life. 

http://www.flypower.com/[url]
A whole website on building fly-powered aircraft. 

pretty neat idea,
until the flies exhaust themselves and the trade floor is covered with your ads with dead flies attached. 

SchitBox said:

On a more serious note.... Things like this make me believe George Carlin more and more on how advertisers are the scum of the earth.

It seriously took George Carlin to tell you that? 

murderers! 

poker56 said:

insect cruelty

I'm from Buenos Aires and I say kill 'em all! 

did this as a kid with lil signs making fun of my brother. did it with flies, but they got all tired and would fly long. then did it with bees. Superglued the signs on while making sure to put a dab of the stinger making the bee harmless, and then let them fly around the house. Oh my dad got so pissed. 

Giblets said:

itd be pretty cool if it was advertising soap or deodorant so they would advertise to the smelly people

/agree 

We used to catch dragon flys and tie thread and a piece of toilet paper to their asses and watch em fly off with the TP twirling in the wind.
Oh yeah, and we also got those huge tomato worms, made a small stick platform and built a fire underneath em. Boy they squirmed like hell.
I know, that's sick, but whatever. 

This perfect if you want to sell some shit. 

mally said:

This perfect if you want to sell some shit.

Indeed... 

Ataraxus said:

I'm from Buenos Aires and I say kill 'em all!

You kill bugs good! 

My dad told me that he used to catch bees and put them in the freezer until they were really slow, then he'd tie a string around it and he'd have a pet bee. lol 

Damn, they do look really tired. Friggin' cool idea though 

gr IM l O c K said:

It seriously took George Carlin to tell you that?

I get all my best thoughts from George Carlin. Just yesterday .. well I can't tell you what he told me but woah, you wouldn't believe it. 

SchitBox said:

I get all my best thoughts from George Carlin. Just yesterday .. well I can't tell you what he told me but woah, you wouldn't believe it.

"Hey, fuck you, get off my grave ya filthy asshole!"

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