Number of View: 582Nigel Page & Justine Laycock: £56 million In February, Nigel Page and Justine Laycock from Cirencester became the UK’s biggest single lottery winners following a £56 million jackpot on EuroMillions. “I’d already checked my National Lottery account and had seen I’d won £55 on Lotto when I decided to buy two Lucky [...]
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Number of View: 2846Alitalia and their $39 ticket mistake to Cyprus Alitalia Airlines is a carrier out of Italy that made a slight mistake on its website in 2006 regarding a fare from Toronto to Cyprus. The fare advertised was $39 – in business class! It was supposed to be $3,900. The rate was posted [...]
Number of View: 1131 Cat fights are a very common sight in the fashion world. But this time, the prize was much bigger of Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani. He managed to edge out big names like Bill Gates, Roman Abramovich and Madonna, to become the proud owner of Skorpios, said to be one of [...]
Number of View: 5231 Lennon’s Toilet (£1,000) John Lennon’s toilet is among the highlights of an auction of Beatles memorabilia. Bids are invited for Lennon’s toilet from Tittenhurst Park, his Berkshire home between 1969 and 1972. Lennon told a builder, John Hancock, to keep the porcelain lavatory and “use it as a plant pot” after [...]
Number of View: 1350When it comes to boots, leather is the material du jour—and the more exotic the leather, the more fashionable the boot. Add in a fashionable designer like Louis Vuitton or, say, Manolo Blahnik and you have a recipe for the most expensive boots in the world. Spanish fashion designer Manolo Blahnik bought [...]
Number of View: 1817 Estimurl.com is one of these tools that let you estimate how much a website is worth. The reasons people might look up that information can obviously differ greatly. Some might want to find that out because they are really impressed by the design and layout of a site that they chance [...]
Number of View: 1099It’s said your name is your virtue and in business it means goodwill. And on the Internet, it’s a trend of the past where a .com company wants rights to an .org domain name. One such .org domain called ‘poker.org‘ got sold with a price tag of $1 million. The domain marketplace [...]
Number of View: 7534When a marriage goes sour, the process of divorce becomes increasingly more complicated when the couple’s net worth is in the stratosphere. The absence of an official prenuptial agreement, differences in international law and the circumstances surrounding of the breakup can result in large sums being paid out in the divorce settlement. [...]
Number of View: 7090 “My skin is dark but my heart is white”, the ultimate racist phrase on this ad portraying a Native American -apparently- willing to support Canadian Patriotic Fund. (Link) Racist ad for Aunt Jemima’s Pancakes, the most famous self-rising pancake mix of old times, created in 1889 by Chris L. Rutt. He [...]
Number of View: 4881 XL and XXL condom users seem to have a lot of problems and Durex knows it. The company showed these problems in their creative ads and instantly gained a huge popularity. While those with XL just have to wear longer kilts in Scotland, the girlfriends of those with XXL have a [...]
Number of View: 61 Promoted by design and architecture expert Andrej Statskij and his partners, the Ooops Design Awards selects some of the ugliest, silliest and most useless product designs of each year. Meet some of the awarded products, plus some other hideous items we found around the web. The “Chair ONE,” designed by Charlotte [...]
Number of View: 2225 Blind Man (Levis) A banned commercial of Levis Jeans that aired in the United Kingdom, the setting is a public bathroom. A guy holding the white cane most of the time is not blind. He’s just holding the cane for the old man. But when that hot woman comes in and [...]
Number of View: 1223 Check out this brilliant World Wildlife Fund ad campaign in the form of bathroom towel dispenser! Demonstrating that Saatchi and Saatchi is the undisputed king of transforming advertising into an art form, this genius PSA integrates a crucial environmental message into the built environment. Shown above is the latest example of [...]
Number of View: 1368 The city of Istanbul is promoting reading with book benches. Benches that look like an open book have been placed around the city, each one carries poems from 18 famous Turkish poets. (Link) Becherovka is a traditional Czech liquor enjoyed by men and women. Long-term communication strategy of Becherovka is captured [...]
