Girls Gone Wild: Vatican telecast spurred record sales

[cobalt1999]

www.thrfeed.com/2009/04/girls-gone-wild-claims-record-sales-from-vatican-telecast.html

Softcore porn franchise Girls Gone Wild is claiming record sales after one of its ubiquitous basic cable ads accidentally aired during a live telecast of the Good Friday service at the Vatican.

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, a Girls Gone Wild commercial was broadcast throughout the Philadelphia market at 2 a.m. by Comcast. A spokesman for the cable company said the ad was aired inadvertently due to a test of the Emergency Alert System, during which the channel airs regular programming -- which in this case included an advertisement for "Girls Gone Wild’s Search for the Wildest Bar in America" DVD.

Now GGW CEO Joe Francis says he received a record spike in sales.

GGW“We may have tapped into a whole new market,” Francis said. “It seems that many of the same people interested in the Pope’s message are also interested in ours.”



Somehow this doesn't surprise me in the least.

[seabeyond]

1. except the guy is filth, lying piece of shit making a buck off girls tits

like i would believe anything the asswipe says

[MADem]

2. That fleshpeddler should go troll Saint Peter's Square in summertime

It looks like girls and boys gone wild out in front of the Vatican in summer. You see all these backpackers stripping down to their undies to change into "acceptable" clothes to enter the cathedral. It's rather ... ironic.

[Possumpoint]

6. Europeans

Have different moral standards and practices. If you don't like what you're seeing stay home in the puritanical US.

[MADem]

12. What the fuck is wrong with you? Have you lost your ever-loving mind?

Where did I say I didn't "like" what I was seeing?

Stop projecting YOUR angry little mind farts on to others, why don't you?

I pointed out a fact. You took that fact and made a few "ASS"umptions about me, that are INCORRECT.

FWIW, I lived in Europe longer than some people posting here have been alive.

Grow up and get over yourself. Or learn to read. Putz.

[MadHound]

3. Somehow I'm not buying Comcast's claims

You have to work really hard to mix up the buttons for an advertisement and the EBS test. First, the ad has to be pre-loaded, OK, I can buy the idea that they had it pre-loaded for when the ad was supposed to broadcast after the Good Friday service. However if you're going to punch up the EBS, you have to punch the button on a completely different machine. They make it difficult in order to prevent these sorts of mix ups.

That being said, I don't find it at all surprising that GGW had an uptick in sales from this "mistake".

[Stevenmarc]

4. Followed by a record spike in confessional attendance

[carlyhippy]

8. LOL!

the priests got an earful daily I am sure......

[Tarc]

5. That's hilarious. All those bible-thumpers with their pent-up sexual desires

finally found a taste of what the real world has to offer.

Excellent. :)

[carlyhippy]

7. I always wondered about the GGW girls.......

how proud the girls' parents must be :sarcasm:

I guess they are not thinking about what their parents would think if they saw the movie, or their parent's friends, etc.

The guy is filth who does these movies, making money off these young women. I know, I sound like a fundie...really I am not......

[seabeyond]

10. my hubby thinks it is a hoot, saying some old fart father watching the commercial only to get his

daughters boobs in the face....

has nothing to do with fundie

has all to do with creeps taking advantage of drunk girls. not even close to being women. there is a reason they go after the young to lift a top for the cameras

[blondeatlast]

9. "...is claiming..." In other words, is lying throughtheir teeth about record sales

because they know no one will bother to check whether they can back it up.

[Loge23]

11. This is not surprising

I know a guy who is a member of the Knights of Columbus - a self-righteous Catholic organization.
He says the biggest issue for them is abortion - which he vehemently opposes to the misguided point of always voting Republican (no surprise there either).
It is OK though for him to frequent strip clubs and use his ever-present rosary as a prop for the girls at the club.
I am not a member of any religious club, and do not visit strip clubs or go to porn sites - not for moral reasons either; but more for my own sense of humanity. It doesn't make me a better person perhaps, but it does help me sleep better at night.
Religion is so screwed up; obviously, so are it's followers.

[nonconformist]

13. Joe Francis is a well known lying piece of shit

I'd take this with a grain of salt.