Read a Book, Get Oral Sex?

[Champ]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York officials were red-faced on Friday after they discovered that clothing ads on city buses that appeared to promote reading suggested a love of books could be rewarded with oral sex.



The advertisements that ran on about 200 buses across the city in recent months carried posters displaying a suggestively posed woman in hot pants kneeling among a pile of books beside the snappy slogan "Read Books, Get Brain."


What unhip, unsuspecting local transportation officials did not know was that "get brain" is street slang for oral sex.


The ads -- from hip-hop clothing maker Akademiks, which intended the double-entendre -- was stripped off New York buses on Friday after transportation officials discovered the street slang meaning.

Metropolitan Transit Authority spokesman Tom Kelly condemned the "vulgar street phrases" in the racy ads he said were "demeaning women."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&ncid=583&e=1&u=/nm/20041105/od_nm/life_sex_dc

[kick-ass-bob]

1. HAHAHAHAHA!

too fukin funny!

[aden_nak]

2. I've heard "get head" but "get brain"? That's reaching.

[warrens]

12. It used to be get skull

I guess this was the next step.

[aden_nak]

16. Yeah, I've even heard skull. But BRAIN?

Are guys just admitting where we make our decisions now?

[YDogg]

3. Reading ...

... it's fundamental!

[ComerPerro]

4. Wow.

LOL. That is hilarious.

Sign me up. What do I need to read first?

[YDogg]

18. My Pet Sheeple.

n/t

[liberal N proud]

5. We can still laugh!

Thanks

[WLKjr]

6. You ever notice

how righties always think everything has some 'sexual' tone to it. Maybe that's becuase it's on thier minds more than it is on us (well, some at least :D ) liberal's minds?


Reading, isn't it great? LOL

[Wickerman]

7. hmmm

I think someone is creating their own urban legend. Various Google searches produced no hits. Nada.

[Champ]

9. Here is the local story on it

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/249826p-213902c.html

A picture of the ad btw

[Wickerman]

11. google web search

has nary a hit on the terminology - I think some fundies have their panties in a wad to simply have their panties in a wad.

[Dukakis88]

8. This slogan obviously hasn't worked on Laura Bush.

She didn't "get brain."

[gold_bug]

10. get brain?

that's a kinda creepy item of slang. Maybe because I watched "Hannibal" last night.

[bullimiami]

13. sounds great.

i have a couple books in the queue at the library right now.

:)

[amazona]

14. like they didn't know what the ad was saying!

I saw this ad the other day, I think in Hollywood Life. The way the young lady was posed and dressed, it was clear what you were being promised even if you weren't up on the latest slang.

I thought it was pretty hilarious, frankly.

[Beer Snob-50]

15. I have never heard that expression!

I have read most of my life and I cannot even get a little slurp on the little guy!

[Squeech]

17. Offer void where prohibited by law

or Moral Values. (Not that they read there anyway.)

[jackelope72]

19. Does this offer work retro-actively?

I mean, hell, I've been reading my entire life!

[BiggJawn]

20. I read 3 books last month!

I'm ready..Oh, please, I'm ready!
:7

[name not needed]

21. I read today. Me want sucky sucky.

:P