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Early contender for 2005 “Idiot of the Year”…

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  1. KingCheetah

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    Man Sells Forehead Ad Space To Company For $37,375

    OMAHA, Neb. -- A Web-page designer who auctioned off the use of his forehead for advertising space is letting it go to his head.

    Andrew Fischer, 20, of Omaha, who put his forehead for sale on eBay as advertising space, received $37,375 on Friday to advertise the snoring remedy, SnoreStop.

    Fischer will display the SnoreStop logo on his forehead for one month.

    "I look forward to an enjoyable association with Andrew -- a man who clearly has a head for business in every sense of the word," SnoreStop CEO Christian de Rivel said.

    "People will always comment on something out of the ordinary," Fischer said in his sales pitch. "People like weird."

    But there were limits: He refused from the outset to be the conduit for any message or product deemed tasteless or unacceptable in traditional advertising formats.

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  2. bigtexxx

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    Well, we all know about SnoreStop now. I guess their marketing plan worked.
     
  3. Yao Wink

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    What an idiot !...
    what a moron !...


    (where do I sign up ?)
     
  4. Jeff

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    $37k for a month with an ad on your forehead??? Nice work if you can get it.
     
  5. 3814

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    i would do that in a second.
     
  6. Davidoff

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    It wouldnt even take me a second.......
     
  7. arkoe

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    We have a random idiot somewhere around here...
     
  8. robbie380

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    that should be enough money to pay for hookers to have sex with him and to buy booze to wash down the ridicule he will be submitted to.
     
  9. Faos

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    Are you still bitter that Clutch never paid you for that ClutchFans.net logo tattoo you put on your rear?

    :)
     
  10. steddinotayto

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    37 k for one months worth of work and a few years worth of humiliation....not bad.
     
  11. Joshfast

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    Why didn't I think of that? 37g's for a month? :mad:
     
  12. wizkid83

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    Damn, now i got to start a new auction on ebay................
     
  13. 3814

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    it really wouldn't be humiliating to me - as a college student. if someone was like...haha, remember the time you put a logo on your head in college for money - what a loser...i'd just say: remember the time you couldn't afford gas money in college - what a loser.

    oh how i wish i had that opportunity.

    but no point starting an EBay auction now - because they are the real "idiot's of the year"...don't they realize the first is the only that matters - just like the mary on toast thing. i saw one close today - the college kid sold his forehead for a month for the grand sum of $20...now that's an idiot.
     
  14. Christopher

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    I saw an article in a UK newspaper about some semi famous gay guy that said he wanted HIV because among gay people its a status sybol.


    I dont have the link....but I tell you what, he will be hard to beat in 2005.
     
  15. Uprising

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    dude! For 1 month! I w3ould so do that! WHOOP! I 3ould so tdo that! Hey....I' m 21 dudes! I SAID ! I AM 21! AHAHAHHAHAHA


    Happy birthday to me. Okay. time to sleep gotta get up in 7 hours. peace dudes. Love this sidte WHOOOP!
     
  16. Behad

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    The dude is 20 years old.Heck, I'm 41, so I have a LOT more forehead to advertise on. I bet I could get multiple slogans on my head.
     
  17. Oski2005

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    Dammit, why can't I ever think of something like that? 37 grand goes a loong way for a college student.
     
  18. Rocketman95

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    I'd do that in a heartbeat. Out of personal debt, down payment for a house, money for the honeymoon of my fiancee's dreams along with some season tickets to something...uh, where do I sign up?
     
  19. rrj_gamz

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    Not bad for one months work...I'd do it...
     
  20. Dr of Dunk

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    I'm with some of the others... he may look stupid doing it, but for that money, hey. :)

    Or in the words of Homer Simpson,

    "Stupid like a fox!"
     

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