Kids all over New York City are no doubt having a good laugh over this one, and deservedly so. I suppose this is what happens when adults try to act hip. Whenever adults try to be hip, much hilarity generally ensues. This scenario is a perfect example of this.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York officials have been left red-faced 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.”
Gee, you’d think that somewhere along the way, someone at the MTA would have done at least a little bit of due diligence. OOOPS….
