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Too pretty for homework?

Posted at 11:04 AM on August 31, 2011 by Bob Collins
Filed under: Marketing and advertising

Someone at JC Penney felt the heat today after this sweatshirt appeared on its online catalog...

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The Twitterverse and some bloggers took it and ran with it...

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And late this morning, it disappeared...

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All in a good day's work on Twitter and the blogs.

How could the ad folks have been so dumb? Easy.

(h/t: Bill Childs)

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