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Ghost of Enrico Palazzo 🎃

@chriswho

There was a smaller billboard for a real estate agent that I would walk past on the way to work.

Big cheesy smiling face of the agent took up a big chunk of the space.

Then one day someone put large googly eyes on it. It was stupid, and juvenile and I absolutely loved it.
It stayed that was for several days before the billboard company removed them. That lasted a few days and the googly eyes came back.

It went on like this until the agent relented and had the sign replaced with one without a headshot. Which was kind of a bummer.

Certainly nowhere near Banksy's talent, but I was cheering for Googly Eye all the same.

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SamuelJohnson

@Sir_Osis_of_Liver @chriswho I used to pass a travel agent's office on my way to work. The window had some posters for sunny destinations, one of which featured a couple supposedly catching a fish on a fine sandy Mediterranean beach. One day I realized that the line hanging from the rod was hanging straight down and flatfish on the end was certainly 100% dead. Ergo the whole thing was staged and completely fake. Amused me every time I passed.

King Kaufman

@Sir_Osis_of_Liver @chriswho

If I was the real estate agent I'd have replaced the sign with one where I had googly eyes. Plus some relatable, funny, I can laugh at myself text.

King Kaufman

@Sir_Osis_of_Liver @chriswho

This is not why I don't work in advertising — I hate advertising about as much as Banksy does — but if I wanted to work in advertising, this would be why that wouldn't work out.

Snowshadow

@Sir_Osis_of_Liver Yaaay for googly eyes. I approve! (is it obvious I dislike real estate agents? lol)@chriswho

Richard Webb

@Sir_Osis_of_Liver @chriswho

Only a fool underestimates the awesome power of googley eyes.

(The barstewards even attacked this post - changing the eyes to the property of a once non-evil IT company. Sneaky autocorrect)

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