These newspaper clippings are pretty old, but they’re funny nonetheless.
I couldn’t find anything online to see if Hooters waitress, Jodee Berry, won her ‘toy yoda’ lawsuit.
I’d love to know how the owners of a home sold by Californian realtor, Shirley Hunsperger, are getting on with their “huge dick” which Hunsperger listed as being ideal for “entertaining.” On her website she says she has “built a reputation for client satisfaction”. I bet she has!
The “Safety Not Guaranteed” ad and the one for the cat or the guy are clearly suspect but amusing. At times I’ve been tempted to place a crazy add in the Liverpool echo or London Evening Standard, just to see what kind of nutty responses you might get. The trouble is coming up with something that is just this side of believable. Any ideas?
MOTO MASSAGE : New technique of massage from Europe involves repeatedly riding motorcycle over lower back. Especially effective for stiffness. For appointment call…
ROOM TO LET : Very small basement room with no windows or electricity. Suitable for quiet person who enjoys sleeping standing up. Close to park. £65 per week. Call…
SEX THERAPIST : Attractive and athletic women wanted for therapeutic sex. No strings attached (no hookers please) Call…
Feel free to offer any ideas you might have for a funny small ad. You never know, I might even place one just for laughs!
Wrote the following comment on May 4, 2007 at 9:40 pm
WOW, lol. Funny ads.
Wrote the following comment on May 5, 2007 at 10:55 am
This is the result of the waitress story, she won!
New Toyota to replace toy Yoda
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posted on Fri, May. 10, 2002
PANAMA CITY – A former waitress has settled a lawsuit against Hooters, which she said promised to award her a new Toyota but instead gave her a toy Yoda.
David Noll, an attorney for Jodee Berry, said Wednesday that he could not immediately disclose the settlement’s details. He did say that Berry can now go to a local car dealership and “pick out whatever type of Toyota she wants.”
Berry, 27, won a beer sales contest last May at the Panama City Beach Hooters. She believed she had won a new Toyota car.
She was blindfolded and led to the restaurant parking lot, but when the blindfold was removed, she found she was the winner of a toy Yoda Star Wars doll.
Berry quit the restaurant a week later and filed a lawsuit in August against Gulf Coast Wings Inc., the corporate owner of the local Hooters. The lawsuit alleged breach of contract and fraudulent misrepresentation.
The restaurant’s manager, Jared Blair, said the contest was an April Fools’ joke.
This settlement is unusual in that Hooters did not ask for a sweeping confidentiality agreement, Noll said.
“I think that’s a recognition of the fact that there’s been such an amazing amount of attention focused on this case,” he said. “There’s not a whole lot of reason to try to hide its existence.”
Wrote the following comment on May 5, 2007 at 11:55 am
Well good for her. Thanks Rob.
Wrote the following comment on May 5, 2007 at 7:52 pm
The Toy Yoda story reinded me of this:
I actually once had a conversation with some English folk and an American. The English peeps complained about the growing numbers of hen-dos in Birmingham (UK) and how drunk these ladies sometimes get. After some not-so-nice detailed descriptions from the english contingent the American shook his head in disbelief and told us that such a thing could never ever happen in the States. “What?”, we all asked him, “Are you telling us that women don’t get drunk on these parties in the US?”.
Funnily enough, he thought we were talking about “Hindhus”, not hen-dos.
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Wrote the following comment on May 6, 2007 at 2:35 am
Funny story Pichel :-)