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Permanently selling ad space on you

by ed burgoyne
Friday, January 28, 2005. 01:10PM
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As the article starts, "Joe Tamargo wears his support for Martha Stewart on his sleeve. Actually, it's UNDER his sleeve.

Tamargo, 31, has started a new enterprise, selling advertisers the opportunity to permanently tattoo their messages on his body."

Ok, I get the gimmick of selling off your forehead with a temporary logo, heck the guy even received over thirty thousand for the stunt. But when you start tatoo-ing "savemartha.com" permanently on yourself for a mere $500 bucks...

He also has a website, click here.
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Friday, January 28, 2005. 08:21PM by x x
When in doubt, stick with baseball caps. It's still the best human billboard. http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/ne...
Friday, January 28, 2005. 05:26PM by ed burgoyne
www.adrants.com has a story saying that the forehead dude thing was a pr stunt with the advertiser...
Friday, January 28, 2005. 04:54PM by Rubin "Cheeky" Cheek
Except...of course, if the advertiser is a bail bondsman...or attorney...
Friday, January 28, 2005. 01:51PM by Darren Herman
This has been around for quite a while, HumandAdSpace.com exists...take a peak! I remember the first article on this back in 1997...What happens when the person with the ad tattoo commits a crime, and the brand wants to disassociate themselves from the person...
Friday, January 28, 2005. 01:15PM by Kim S
What a loser. If he ever lands in jail, you think he'll be the boyfriend or the wife?

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