Right Under The Nose
A Danish art group managed to smuggle an advert insulting the Iranian president into a Tehran newspaper
At first glance the advertisement placed in the Tehran newspaper on Wednesday [December 21] seemed to be declaring support for the Iranian leader. Beneath an image of the hard-line president, there was a series of apparently sympathetic statements such as “Support his fight against Bush,” or “Iran has the right to produce nuclear energy.” However, on closer inspection things were not quite so benign: the first letters of each phrase when read from top to bottom spelt out the less than subtle insult “S-W-I-N-E.” The half-page advert, attributed to “Danes for World Peace,” appeared in the English-language Tehran Times. The conservative daily had failed to detect the hidden message when it agreed to run the ad. { Continue reading }
+ previously { same joke, different victim } + Image { AdNerd }
