While the whole WikiLeaks thing has become and incredibly divisive topic in recent weeks, at least one company has found a way to use the hot-button issue to its advantage.
A Pakistani ad agency hired to create a campaign for the Butterfly brand of sanitary napkins (is there a less outdated-sounding term?) came up with the idea of tying the absorbent product to the name of the controversial online whistle-blowers with the slogan, “WikiLeaks… Butterfly doesn’t.”
Butterfly may have been the first to latch onto WikiLeaks for ad purposes, but this same slogan could be used by other companies — faucet manufacturers, Ziploc bags, the makers of Ditropan.
Random Photo: Using WikiLeaks to Sell Pads [TheGloss.com]
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Well that butterfly won’t have to worry about snitching or embarassment. Win:win!
That looks like a pad…
I’m not sure I get what you mean by pointing this out. Yes, it’s a pad. What am I missing?
Well, I’ve never seen or heard them referred to as such. I guess that was before my time!
Sanitary napkin is a common term for a maxi pad, actually. In Japan, if you ask for a “napkin,” you’re asking for a maxi pad.
Don’t make that mistake at a restaurant. You get weird looks. Trust me.
Thanks!
And it the UK, they’re called sanitary towels. The word “towel” always made me feel like there was some kind serious torrent of fluid to be taken care of.
You’re a towel!
Well, yes.
It has wings!
Perhaps Red Bull gave them to it?
Red Wings?
sorry couldn’t resist
ewwww… Hockey will never be the same for me.
There is a tire store in Lexington Ky that has “Hey FBI, CIA… we fix leaks”
And just as further proof that Benjamin Franklin was the most prolific and influencial inventor of all time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitary_napkin
“Disposable menstrual pads grew from Benjamin Franklin’s invention designed to save soldiers with buckshot wounds”
Good ole Ben.
Well those people who got shot were probably bleeding p…….well let’s just say that they could be well associated with those sanitary napkins there.
A panty saved is a panty earned.
Amusingly, tampons also evolved from military medicine. “If we put this in a bullet hole to absorb blood…. hmm….”
The plugs you see in the ends of the gun barrels of battleships are called tampions.
It’s obvious where that name came from.
Or the other way around.
I wonder if someone, somewhere has read Wikileaks on their iPad, and if they have a joke about it.
Is the WikiLeaks story that widespread in mainstream news? It seems like this will go over the heads of lots of people
Items about it made my local evening news at least twice this week, so I’d wager that it’s not exactly obscure.
I cut Comcast and watch my entertainment via Netflix, I live in a valley and at least 40 miles from a TV tower so my news comes from the internet, occasionally form the radio, so I don’t know what is “well known”
That actually makes it even worse. You get news from the internet and you STILL didn’t know WikiLeaks was a huge story? I mean, it was all over the place! It’s not like you only had access to smoke signals or something.
I don’t watch the news on TV. I’ve only heard of Wikileaks online and in the newspaper. You’re on crack.
Are you serious? It’s a major story.
uh, TMI gals, TMI.
What’s TMI? The fact that women menstruate?
Don’t say menstruate! You’ll make that little boy blush!!
Shathar, get out of the room when grown folks are talking.
I wonder if WikiLeaks was trademarked.
Clever!
All I can think of is “Sega Does what Nintendon’t.”