Oddest part time job in Times Square

[SoCalDem]

WARNING: Cutesy Charmin Publicity Stunt Wants to Lure You Into a Complex, Unpalatable, Freudian Web
http://sparklepony.blogspot.com/2008/11/warning-cutesy-charmin-publicity-stunt.html

OK, so I troll through a lot of wire service photos, and sometimes something dumb will catch my eye. In this case, an obvious publicity stunt that the Associated Press went ahead and photographed because, you know, why not? This is pathos:


Lisa Grant, center, attracts costumers wearing a toilet seat costume outside the 20 stall Charmin public restroom in New York's Times Square Monday, Nov. 24, 2008. They'll be open daily through the end of the year except Christmas Day. For the first time, they'll be open on New Year's Day until 2 a.m. for the crowd watching the 2009 ball drop. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

BEST JOB EVER. So cute! I also love the shape of the arrow. Restrooms and a Duracell Power Lodge™? Vibratastic!

And, oh, how lovable, here are their stalls with their enchanting Animals who Adorably Have to Piss or Shit motifs. OMG, I always love that:


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Inside the stalls, things take a stranger, far more sinister turn:



What, exactly, is going on in those graphics? You are the bear who does not shit in the woods. We are all the bear who does not shit in the woods. And is that picture on the stall an enthusiastic, cheering crowd? Watching you go to the bathroom? How do you feel about this? Are they filming you? Are you sure?

So anyway, if you're in New York City, and you're in Times Square, just... hold it in, because this place is going to totally fuck your head up good.

[rosesaylavee]

1. Haha!

My son is in NYC - will have to tell him about this place. Looks like a hoot.

[bluedeminredstate]

2. OMG - UTI waiting to happen right there!

I'd get a kidney infection before I peed in front of a "crowd" like that. As for the other thing - they don't make enough Exlax in NYC to make me use it for the other thing...


:popcorn:

[TomInTib]

3. I must say, you have topped the list of strangest posts.

I think I need a drink.

Funny thing is, I am going to NYC for Xmas. I try to stay away from Times Square, but not this time. I have to see this.

[SoCalDem]

4. I adore Princess Sparkle Pony's site..

I always find the funniest stuff there:)

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. There's gotta be a pic of Larry Craig on one of those doors.

[tigereye]

6. since public bathrooms are at a premium in some big cities -

it kind of makes sense, however bizarrely captioned! ;)

[mitchum]

7. Ithink that I would rather have been the mop man in one of the old peep shows

at least there was no stupid costume

[AnnieBW]

8. If a bear shits in Times Square

and nobody smells it, does it still stink?