KFC Advertises To Extraterrestrials November 14, 2006
Posted by Michael in Crime, Economics, Food.trackback
NEW YORK (Reuters) - From space, extraterrestrials and astronauts can look back to earth and see The Great Wall of China — and KFC’s Colonel Sanders.
This could go horribly wrong if the extraterrestrials turn out to be giant space chickens.
The KFC Corp. on Tuesday launched a rebranding campaign with an 87,500 square-foot image of Colonel Sanders in the Nevada desert which the company says makes Kentucky Fried Chicken the world’s first brand visible from space.
“If there are extraterrestrials in outer space, KFC wants to become their restaurant of choice,” KFC President Gregg Dedrick said in a statement.
See, Gregg, I don’t think you thought this over very well. Everyone knows that aliens do not eat chicken. They eat PEOPLE you dumbass!!!
I am appalled. Corporate irresponsibility has reached a new low when a company will risk the security of our entire planet for a publicity stunt.
Could be worse. They could’ve made it a picture of Madeline Albright. One look at that and the aliens would squash this planet like an ugly spider.
Fun With Rummy
Pupster says “It’s old,” but, as usual, it’s new to me. Also funny: KFC creates first advertising image visible… from outer space. As Michael says, it’s a great idea, unless the space aliens looking down on us are giant fire-breathing…
Just FYI, the Great Wall of China isn’t visible from space, many ISS astronauts have tried to find it. It’s too thin and blends in with the surrounding rock… with a zoomed-in picture you can make it out, but not with the naked eye. This one has enough contrast that it might be visible, though.
“Everyone knows that aliens do not eat chicken. They eat PEOPLE you dumbass!!!”
Well duh. That’s why it’s a picture of a person, not a chicken.
On a related note, since that’s in my neighborhood, I plan on sneaking out tonight with five hundred beef burritos (with extra spicy hot sauce), finding that location, and creating the first public vandalism visible from outer space. If I’m not commenting tomorrow, you’ll know why.
Take Compos with you. I think he can help. A lot.
“Everyone knows that aliens do not eat chicken. They eat PEOPLE you dumbass!!!”
Yeah but we probably taste like chicken.
If you build it they will come….from space???
Its a Fact: The Fossil record is actually the remains of an ancient alien picnic.
Take Compos with you. I think he can help. A lot.
You guys act like I’m the only person who posts here who’s personally decimated a port-o-let. Sheesh.
And yes, you give me some Chicken Cordon Blue from Arby’s and an extra large Coke and I could put that Colonel Sanders in black face and a top hat, lickety shit.
Kudos to Michael who dragged out some pretty funny Lurker comments.
I had some KFC chicken.
Tastes like rattlesnake.
This is terribly frightening.
They may be expecting us to look through “Google Earth”. It’s very poppuler here.
It’s tentacle-lickin’ good!
Where else would they put Colonel SANDers than in the desert?
Only in America!
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This is why Americans have to pretend to be Canadian when traveling abroad.
Compos, you may not have been the only one, but you were definitely the best one! If you’re gonna decimate, decimate wholly!
SWEET! Reard dropped to third!
And the anon above is right about the Great Wall not being visible from space.
Anyway, question for all the lawyers on here: I heard a rumor that Brown v. Board of Education is being contested at SCOTUS in December. You guys know what that’s about?
If I feel like getting my ass kicked sometime I’ll pretend to be Canadian. Otherwise, no.
If I feel like getting my ass kicked, I’ll go to Texas and pretend I’m a Fwench member of NAMBLA and an anti-gun member of the Sierra Club.
Mrs. Peel, I don’t know the specific case, but it sounds like liberal hyperbole to me. More likely it’s a challenge to racial quotas that ACLU-types are hyperventillating will take us back to pre-Civil War days.
But I’ll see if I can find it and get the details.
Incidentally, no one (not even heartless conservatives) argues that Brown was incorrectly decided. Justice Harlan’s famous dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson said we have a color-blind constitution. That became true with Brown, which eliminated racial segregation. It’s become less true since liberals decided maybe the Constitution should actual enshrine race (to the benefit of selected racial groups). But even if all that race-based nonsense were struck from the Constitution tomorrow, Brown v. Board would still be fine, because we would be going back to race-neutrality.
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RG, down here we call that Survivor, Texas!
Poor aliens….they come to see how beautiful the Earth is from space and they see an ugly picture of colonel sanders. I guess if we all have clogged arteries the aliens should have them too!! Too bad they didn’t spend that money on something useful like I dunno…world poverty. I guess aliens eating chicken is more important.
Never mind the planet, feel the greed.
Actually, we don’t taste like chicken. As reported in Japan by one of the first robots that can measure taste & smell, we seem to taste like pork.
I’ll blogged about it here:
http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/2006/11/11/the-robots-have-spoken-humans-taste-like-pigs/
Funny post! Adam.
Would really like to know where this came from. Sounds like something out of the Onion.
Oops, forgot to post the link. I’ll add it. It came from Reuters, not the Onion.
“It came from Reuters, not the Onion.”
There’s a difference?
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This was too ridiculous to resist. Get the whole story at http://www.franworst.com
see you on the veranda!
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