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Bald is bountiful

Posted at 4:06 PM on September 9, 2008 by Bob Collins (2 Comments)
Filed under: Marketing and advertising

There is hope for the bald.

Reuters reports that New Zealand's national airline is planning on advertising a service to speed-up check-ins by tattooing the ad on bald heads. Each baldy will get $666 for two weeks worth of work.

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Comments (2)

That's an interesting fee ... does it mean the "advertising medium" if you will, has sold his soul (or at least his skull) to the devil?

Posted by Frank Connor | September 9, 2008 5:10 PM

@Frank
Nope, $666 US = $1,000 NZ

Posted by Van Dyke Brown | September 10, 2008 8:49 AM

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