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Unrecognized Sid Vicious reference leads to ad controversy

September 14, 2007 By admin

“It was supposed to be a harmless advertisement for a telecommunications company, but all it ended up demonstrating was an advertiser’s negligence and extremely poor taste.

“The Solo Mobile ad, which Thursday hung high above the crowds inside Downsview Station, depicts a tearful woman wearing a series of buttons, one of which reads ‘Belsen was a gas,’ a reference to Bergen-Belsen, a Nazi concentration camp used during the Second World War.”

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I wonder how young the creative was who designed this ad at the agency…

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