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40k blowjobs: Candidate offers voters perks in Belgium
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by babblingdweeb | May 11, 2007 at 05:47 am
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The NEE party's candidate Tania Derveaux started off with mocking the unrealistic claims politicians are known to make. How so? After several parties promised new job opportunities NEE responded with a campaign where Tania posted naked and promised voters 400,000 new jobs.
It's almost election time in Belgium and NEE (Dutch for "No") is an actual party, their focus is to bring attention to the idiocracy of politicians and political parties' outlandish claims.
This national campaign resulted in international media attention and I received hundreds of e-mails asking for 400,000 blowjobs. If this would get us even more media attention, I'm willing to give 40,000 blowjobs to make the statement.
According to my planning this would take me 500 days to tour around the world, visiting all the ones who signed up for a blowjob on this page, giving 80 blowjobs per day. So the offer is limited, sign up while you still can.
The actual request form has some hilarious legal-eze content!
Some notes after having received 600 applications:
* submitting several applications will not result in more blowjobs
* Services for female applicants can only be provided in Second Life if the applicant has the necessary avatar modifications
I have to give credit where credit is due...this is a great way to make a mockery of something that has been a mockery for a long time: politics & politicians. In 2000 a similar mockery of US politics played out when incumbents for congress found out they would be running against a ficus plant. Yes, a plant. Ficus plants were set as candidates in 23 House races in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Wyoming.
Just like human candidates, the ficus plants are making campaign stops. One in Pennsylvania traveled on a "listening tour." In Georgia, the ficus candidate attended the opening of a greenhouse. A Texas ficus candidate sports a cowboy hat. The campaign slogan of a hopeful in New Jersey is, "Because a Potted Plant Can Do No Harm."
Incumbents targeted by the ficus are responding. Kingston pledged to "keep my feet firmly planted in the issues." Frelinghuysen charged that his ficus opponent is "truly green when it comes to politics."
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at 05:51 on May 11th, 2007
Hilarious! It's the legalese that _really_ makes it goofy.
at 05:57 on May 11th, 2007
babblingdweeb, this is a great find, and not only because of the surface subject matter: what NEE is doing is pure political parody in terms that everyone can understand. Good stuff.
at 05:06 on May 11th, 2007
Why can't our politicians look like that?
She'd have my vote! It may be sloppy seconds, but isn't that what we get from every politician in this country without as much as a kiss first?
at 06:11 on May 11th, 2007
Great story. It's good stuff.
at 07:32 on May 11th, 2007
babblingdweeb, notwithstanding (love using that word in this context) the fact that I am usually quite squeamish about mixing sex and politics, this is indeed an interesting story and I really like the way you have structured it.
at 16:34 on May 11th, 2007
ah, the headline that just screams OPEN ME!!