This is part of an ad campaign using intentionally provocative and eye-catching slogans:
TABIA hits the streets to support local neighbourhood businesses
Sep 10, 2009 TORONTO… The Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas is launching a unique awareness campaign throughout the 71 BIA locations across the city to encourage residents to shop in their neighborhoods and support their local businesses.
“Think Big-Buy Local” posters will soon be appearing in bus shelters throughout Toronto…. Featured on a rotation of nine designs will be photographs of actual BIA business proprietors in their shops or offices.
Catch phrases will headline each poster pertaining to a specific business. For example, the poster featuring tailor Saul Korman, of the Greektown on the Danforth BIA, taking suit measurements on a customer will read: “My Neighbour Says Size Matters.”
The poster with a photo of West Indian cook Ed Pottinger in his kitchen in the Riverside BIA will headline: “My Neighbour Jerks My Chicken.”
The idea, says Kiru [Executive Director of TABIA], “Is to encourage residents in the many different areas of the city to shop in their own neighbourhood….”
Support local businesses, not mega-corporations, you don’t know what your neighbours can do until you ask……mine duct taped me to a chair when I queried what he did at night however, so be careful out there peeps.
ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.
KARL MARX: It was a historical inevitability.
RONALD REAGAN: What chicken?
PAT BUCHANAN: To steal a job from a decent, hardworking American.
BILL CLINTON: That depends on what your definition of “did” is.
GEORGE BUSH JR: I don’t know, but I’ll tell you this: That chicken may run, but it can’t hide. God bless America.
DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes! The chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed, I’ve not been told!
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die. In the rain.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.: I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.
GRANDPA: In my day, we didn’t ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough for us.
FOX MULDER: Did you actually see it cross the road? Or did you suddenly notice that it had appeared on the other side? You think you saw it cross the road, but that’s an illusion. How many more chickens have to appear before you believe it?
FREUD: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.
BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken Millenium Edition, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your check book, and Internet Explorer is an inextricable part of eChicken.
EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road move beneath the chicken?
LOUIS FARRAKHAN: What color was the chicken? If you do your research, you will find that it was a white chicken. Roads are always black. The road, you will see, represents the black man. The chicken crossed the “black man” in order to trample him and keep him down.
THE BIBLE: And God came down from the heavens, and He said unto the chicken, “Thou shalt cross the road.” And the chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing.
JERRY FALWELL: Because the chicken was gay! Isn’t it obvious? Can’t you people see the plain truth in front of your face? The chicken was going to the “other side.” That’s what “they” call it: the “other side.” Yes, my friends, that chicken was gay. And, if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like “the other side.” That chicken should not be free to cross the road. It’s as plain and simple as that.
Oh, Thanks for this, I had seen a few of them, but I’d have to say my favorite one was from the bible. I saw a far side comic where a chicken who’s about to cross the road sees a sign that says “The other side. Why do you need a reason?” I loved it!
Shiiiiiiiiit. It was from Jeff Dunham spark of insanity.”When I get in an arguement with my wife, I think of something completely different, like if you choke a smurf, what colour does it turn?
I think this is lost on the majority of the world that are quite familiar with Jamaican cooking, especially their famous Jerk seasoning. Given that the US is so close to the Caribbean you’d think this would be pretty much void of humour.
Don’t get me wrong I see where the possible comedy is, but for anyone over 12 years old it’s pretty weak – and I consider myself pretty immature :p
I drive past this ad everyday at this exact intersection (annette & high park, in Toronto) and have commented that it should show up on here…and low and behold.
Ummm guys. Jerking chicken is a termed used in the Carbbean, especially Jamaican to season the chicken. This isn’t a fail at all. I believe most of you are culturally ignorant or culturally insensitive.
What NyteHawx said. Not to be racist but i bet it was non Caribbean ppl who said it was a fail (i woulda said white, but African-born ppl might be ignorant 2 this as well)
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Dang! I have to do it myself.
Poor you…
Pour moi?
Pour mom…
Whats wrong with her mom ?
Her neighbour….jerks her…
lolololololololololol hahahahahaha
*kills*
This is part of an ad campaign using intentionally provocative and eye-catching slogans:
TABIA hits the streets to support local neighbourhood businesses
Sep 10, 2009 TORONTO… The Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas is launching a unique awareness campaign throughout the 71 BIA locations across the city to encourage residents to shop in their neighborhoods and support their local businesses.
“Think Big-Buy Local” posters will soon be appearing in bus shelters throughout Toronto…. Featured on a rotation of nine designs will be photographs of actual BIA business proprietors in their shops or offices.
Catch phrases will headline each poster pertaining to a specific business. For example, the poster featuring tailor Saul Korman, of the Greektown on the Danforth BIA, taking suit measurements on a customer will read: “My Neighbour Says Size Matters.”
The poster with a photo of West Indian cook Ed Pottinger in his kitchen in the Riverside BIA will headline: “My Neighbour Jerks My Chicken.”
The idea, says Kiru [Executive Director of TABIA], “Is to encourage residents in the many different areas of the city to shop in their own neighbourhood….”
Thank you, Fuzz. We understand now.
Tha is TMI Service, not Fuzz. WTF WERE YOU SMOKING?
You mean that the jerked chicken won’t get you high?
*Throws up*
(TMI tried repeatedly to include the reference URL with the above, but Failblog blocked it. I guess actual news stories are considered too obscene!)
This is high! (clickie)
But look at my clickie and see how *not obcene* it is!
Even if done intentionally, I think it’s still a “fail.” Actually, it’s probably more of a fail since it was intentional. Ugh!
If they open a chapter in London, Ontario, they’ll have to rethink their acronym.
*snerk*
Jerk is a Jamaican way of cooking chicken, pork, etc. Which is why they have the West Indian cook guy on it.
lol he’s the owner of the local buisness The Real Jerk which is a Jamaican restaraunt.
So would the slogan be for the Lesbian Association of Business Improvement Areas ? (LABIA)
MRN, your picture WINS
That’s actually pretty fowl.
Actually, I think my chicken would rather do it by himself. Thanks anyway!
Are you sure? My neighbor can make a coq happy.
Does he drive away with them in his au vin?
I guess the stock answer would be he takes the bus.
Good, that’s much safer for the little dumplings.
Some would say it is stew safe!
Is it going to get you into a hot pot of trouble?
Ha! That’s a crock.
U could say it will get caulder on
Your word choices are getting soupicious. I think you’re brewing something up.
pleasure stew
rofl.mao.
Thats not very nice now is it?
To my everlasting shame, I can remember “Derek & Clive” duing this joke.
Does the chicken know?
This gives new meaning to fowl play.
I hate getting caught with my hands on my hen…
I bet you give poultry excuses for that!
♪ My friends got a neighbour and he hates that jerk,
He tells me everyday, ♪
Oh great – now I will have that ear worm at work for the rest of the day!
♪He says I’ve really gotta lose my hen
In the worst kind of way♪
♪Na na, why don’t you get a chook?♪
♪ Say no way, say no way, no waaaay,
why don’t you get your own♪
Really? Then I bet he’ll also love t(h)ai
It takes a hard man to romance a chicken (engrish)
Why did the chicken cross the road?……
…to watch a man lay bricks..
to get jerked?
now why would the chicken want to get jerked by the man…
with bricks!!???
Yes, it makes SOOO much sense…
Makes perfect sense. Watching a man lay bricks, got the chicken all built up.
Why are you egging them on?
You’re yolking of course! I was just trying to cement his knowledge.
I was mortarfied…shell-shocked, even…. that such an old joke required further explanation!
It matters not, I’m leaving this poultry thread now before the chicken gets another extension.
*grabs a pair of drumsticks*
ba-dum TISH!
Darn. Now how will I keep abreast of the latest on this masonry erection?
What is the ad trying to say?
Quite apart from the failworthy double-entendre, what was the intended meaning?
Anyone?
Support local businesses, not mega-corporations, you don’t know what your neighbours can do until you ask……mine duct taped me to a chair when I queried what he did at night however, so be careful out there peeps.
He thought you were his special delivery and was trying to wrap you back up so nobody would notice.
That sounds like a WIN!!!!11!
The win is how the neighbour can hold a heavy plate between his index and middle finger. You’d think he had some practice.
If you start an ad campaign with intentionally “fail-like” slogans and your ad gets free world-wide publicity on sites like Failblog, that’s a win.
And of course a very good morning to you and all the other peeps.
*squeeze*
*squeezes to the rest of the peeps*
“Jerk chicken” is a jamaican recipe.
….and ovens are hot.
I wish someone had told me that yesterday.
*hands jam a set of sponge-betty oven mitts*
It’s too late now, I’m a little overdone.
*hopes Brewski’s hands haven’t been where she thinks they have*
Oh, you’re worried about the jerked chicken? Not to worry, it’s finger-lickin’ good!
*licks fingers*
Pssst! Colonel Brewski…
Oh! That’s just… um..hair gel! Want some?
Hair gel , now in chicken flavor! From your local shopping mall!
…and BaconLube is slippery.
*slips in lube slick*
Careful! During last night’s party, a half-dozen people threw up over there.
You don’t want to slip on the six-sick slick.
Wow….. Shocking suprise slalom-
Is that what those crazy kids are calling it these days?
Would you like some squeezed sausage with that jerked chicken?
Ummm… hold the mayo!
I’ll have some collapsed horse, please.
Wouldn’t you rather have the tossed, chicken salad?
Mmmm, chunky.
:sick:
:p
If sick comes out, you’re doing it wrong!
His neighbour is already holding his mayo.
*roffles*
Saucy devil!
Yep, he’s the cream of the neighbourhood.
Good! Keep jerking that chicken.
“Jerked pork, jerked beef, jerked chicken…is there anything this man can’t jerk?!”
Think thats bad? You should see the other side of that poster..
“My neighbour jerks my chicken”
“While I fondle his… rooster”
Surely it would be easier to leave the rooster and the hen alone together. They’d have gotten laid eventually.
The other side says :I feel a c0ck.
59th!!! Sorry I was so late in commenting, I was busy jerking my chicken.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.
KARL MARX: It was a historical inevitability.
RONALD REAGAN: What chicken?
PAT BUCHANAN: To steal a job from a decent, hardworking American.
BILL CLINTON: That depends on what your definition of “did” is.
GEORGE BUSH JR: I don’t know, but I’ll tell you this: That chicken may run, but it can’t hide. God bless America.
DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes! The chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed, I’ve not been told!
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die. In the rain.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.: I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.
GRANDPA: In my day, we didn’t ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough for us.
FOX MULDER: Did you actually see it cross the road? Or did you suddenly notice that it had appeared on the other side? You think you saw it cross the road, but that’s an illusion. How many more chickens have to appear before you believe it?
FREUD: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.
BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken Millenium Edition, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your check book, and Internet Explorer is an inextricable part of eChicken.
EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road move beneath the chicken?
LOUIS FARRAKHAN: What color was the chicken? If you do your research, you will find that it was a white chicken. Roads are always black. The road, you will see, represents the black man. The chicken crossed the “black man” in order to trample him and keep him down.
THE BIBLE: And God came down from the heavens, and He said unto the chicken, “Thou shalt cross the road.” And the chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing.
JERRY FALWELL: Because the chicken was gay! Isn’t it obvious? Can’t you people see the plain truth in front of your face? The chicken was going to the “other side.” That’s what “they” call it: the “other side.” Yes, my friends, that chicken was gay. And, if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like “the other side.” That chicken should not be free to cross the road. It’s as plain and simple as that.
COLONEL SANDERS: You mean I missed one?!
I laughed. This is seriously funny.
“Seriously funny”? Isn’t that an oxymoron?
Everything is relative.( I love to say this. Sadly, it wont get me top grades…)
Oh, Thanks for this, I had seen a few of them, but I’d have to say my favorite one was from the bible. I saw a far side comic where a chicken who’s about to cross the road sees a sign that says “The other side. Why do you need a reason?” I loved it!
Depending on the neighbor, this could be a win.
thats the catch though, ‘depending on the neighbor’
This is taking “Love thy neighbour” a bit too far.
oh, no, not in the case of my neighbor, in fact i wouldn’t mind her jerking my chicken, and all my other animals as well
Chicken? Jerk?
*masturbates*
“Choke a Smurf, what happened to the chicken?”
Ex-cuuuuuuse me?
*taps foot*
Shiiiiiiiiit. It was from Jeff Dunham spark of insanity.”When I get in an arguement with my wife, I think of something completely different, like if you choke a smurf, what colour does it turn?
And after your neighbor jerks your chicken, he serves you a nice hot meal.
that’s not really a fail, it’s supposed to be a joke
*laughs quietly b/c she is in a library* well, your neighbor could be doing a LOT worse to that chicken….
If only it had a pulley in the middle.
*sigh*
It would solve fully the jerk riddle
Hmmmm…. Why did his neighbour jerk his chicken?
In Soviet Russia, the chicken jerks yooou!
…
am i doin it rite?
So thats what they meant by “love thy neighbor”…
I think this is lost on the majority of the world that are quite familiar with Jamaican cooking, especially their famous Jerk seasoning. Given that the US is so close to the Caribbean you’d think this would be pretty much void of humour.
Don’t get me wrong I see where the possible comedy is, but for anyone over 12 years old it’s pretty weak – and I consider myself pretty immature :p
They been doing what to my chickens??!!!
Ya but you should see what I do to their pork! YOW!! tssssss…
OMG, thx for the lolz
Makes me so proud that I work in advertising……..NOT!!!!!!!!!!!
Not really a fail. They’re being suggestive on purpose to get attention.
There’s another one that says something like, “My neighbour scooped my girl” … for an ice cream shop. Trying to encourage people to shop local.
Kind of silly, though.
Photoshop fail.
Wasn’t shopped, it is in my GF’s neighborhood. Saw it last week and lol’d didn’t think of putting it on failblog tho.
Not a fail as the joke was done on purpose.
I thought that someone would eventually put that on failblog. I still laugh at it every time I see it. XD
I drive past this ad everyday at this exact intersection (annette & high park, in Toronto) and have commented that it should show up on here…and low and behold.
It’s OK to jerk the chicken, as long as you don’t choke it.
That poor kid in the picture. It’s like that time on Friends when Joey got put on a VD ad campaign.
Everyone will think he is being molested.
I live where these ads are running… I had to wonder how long it would be before it showed up here… LOL
This is not a fail!!
You guys have to see the entire campaign before you just say this bad
I found all of em on a YouTube Clip
Could be worse. Could have read “My neighbor jerks my meat.”
this fail is a fail
They did this on purpose, read the article
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091017/controversial_ads_091017/20091017?hub=TopStoriesV2
This is in my GF’s neighborhood. Saw it last week and lol’d didn’t think of putting it on failblog tho.
Not really a fail.
The neighbour jerking chicken is a lot less than “My Neighbour Scoops my little girl.”
http://images.ctv.ca/archives/CTVNews/img2/20091017/470_controversial_ad_4_091017.jpg
Now THAT is fail.
I live in Toronto, these ads are all over the place, some are funny like:
http://images.ctv.ca/archives/CTVNews/img2/20091017/470_controversial_ad_6_091017.jpg
But the neighbour scooping … yeeeahhh..
I wanted to post this pic…. I live near one of these too….
Toronto is… ummm… and interesting city.
I’d like to see more of these, they’re funny and not faily at all. Fail on the fail! Booooo!
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Ummm guys. Jerking chicken is a termed used in the Carbbean, especially Jamaican to season the chicken. This isn’t a fail at all. I believe most of you are culturally ignorant or culturally insensitive.
Failblog FAIL!
What NyteHawx said. Not to be racist but i bet it was non Caribbean ppl who said it was a fail (i woulda said white, but African-born ppl might be ignorant 2 this as well)
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