Woman finds old word, puts it on a billboard, asks people not to use it on the internet. While she was at it, she should have asked 4chan not to photoshop a goat head on your body. DNAinfo:
The word is . . . well, should I? Both articles avoid using the word, although they show a picture of it. Giz:
The spirit of the internet coffee pot lives on.
NO. Via Matt Novaks' invaluable historical-pic debunking site: this is not real.
For a medium supposedly awash in "vintage" - which usually means washed-out colors or throwback to the misty distant 90s - people on the internet are remarkably credulous about old ads. The typeface would be apt for the 20s, in England; the picture's style is anachronous; the slogan wouldn't be slanted; there would be more body copy; and so on.
The same site that pushed the Einstein ad also has this, from the EWW NO school of marketing:
No one thinks this is a good idea.
PROG Every progressive-rock fan will have fun ripping apart this Rolling Stone list. At least they get some PFM in there, but Can over Lamb Lies Down? No.
