Comments on: I think I just threw up a little bit… http://macksimpson.com/adverb/2006/09/17/roach-promotion/ The daily adventures of a Dallas ad monkey. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:52:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: Anonymous http://macksimpson.com/adverb/2006/09/17/roach-promotion/#comment-37398 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:02:17 +0000 http://macksimpson.com/adverb/2006/09/17/roach-promotion/#comment-37398 ha ha

]]> by: Mack Simpson http://macksimpson.com/adverb/2006/09/17/roach-promotion/#comment-718 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:39:35 +0000 http://macksimpson.com/adverb/2006/09/17/roach-promotion/#comment-718 HA! Thanks! :D HA! Thanks! :D

]]> by: Magno http://macksimpson.com/adverb/2006/09/17/roach-promotion/#comment-717 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:34:36 +0000 http://macksimpson.com/adverb/2006/09/17/roach-promotion/#comment-717 From BOSTON.COM 9-25-06//AP PETA upset at Six Flags roach contest GURNEE, Ill. --People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants Six Flags Great America to scrap its Halloween-themed cockroach-eating promotion. A spokeswoman for the animal rights organization says the contest at the amusement park's FrightFest is "gratuitously cruel." The park in Gurnee, Ill., is joining other Six Flags parks in offering unlimited line-jumping privileges to anyone who eats a live Madagascar hissing cockroach. The bugs are up to three inches long. The contest begins next month. Amusement park officials are defending their menu choice. Great America spokesman Jim Taylor says the bugs are nutritious, high in protein and fat free. © Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company From BOSTON.COM 9-25-06//AP

PETA upset at Six Flags roach contest

GURNEE, Ill. –People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants Six Flags Great America to scrap its Halloween-themed cockroach-eating promotion.

A spokeswoman for the animal rights organization says the contest at the amusement park’s FrightFest is “gratuitously cruel.”

The park in Gurnee, Ill., is joining other Six Flags parks in offering unlimited line-jumping privileges to anyone who eats a live Madagascar hissing cockroach. The bugs are up to three inches long.

The contest begins next month.

Amusement park officials are defending their menu choice. Great America spokesman Jim Taylor says the bugs are nutritious, high in protein and fat free.

© Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company

]]> by: olivier blanchard http://macksimpson.com/adverb/2006/09/17/roach-promotion/#comment-706 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 01:44:39 +0000 http://macksimpson.com/adverb/2006/09/17/roach-promotion/#comment-706 "Free colonic with every tenth Big Mac meal purchase" is the promo I've really been waiting to see. “Free colonic with every tenth Big Mac meal purchase” is the promo I’ve really been waiting to see.

]]> by: makethelogobigger http://macksimpson.com/adverb/2006/09/17/roach-promotion/#comment-679 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:50:12 +0000 http://macksimpson.com/adverb/2006/09/17/roach-promotion/#comment-679 Man, if you go on that snake coaster after eating that, sure gonna look worse on the way up than it did on the way down. ;-p Man, if you go on that snake coaster after eating that, sure gonna look worse on the way up than it did on the way down.

;-p

]]> by: David Burn http://macksimpson.com/adverb/2006/09/17/roach-promotion/#comment-675 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:01:02 +0000 http://macksimpson.com/adverb/2006/09/17/roach-promotion/#comment-675 Twisted, but it may work as a promotion. The spectacle alone... Thanks for the gross out! Twisted, but it may work as a promotion. The spectacle alone…

Thanks for the gross out!

]]> by: Magno http://macksimpson.com/adverb/2006/09/17/roach-promotion/#comment-672 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:00:42 +0000 http://macksimpson.com/adverb/2006/09/17/roach-promotion/#comment-672 Now you know this is just what we in the Northeast would expect from Six Flags over Texas. Um, gross.... Why - why other than their feeble brand will be in the news for a week, would they do this? Where are the Peta people (or do they not do bugs?) Ick. Ick. Ick. Now you know this is just what we in the Northeast would expect from Six Flags over Texas. Um, gross…. Why - why other than their feeble brand will be in the news for a week, would they do this? Where are the Peta people (or do they not do bugs?) Ick. Ick. Ick.

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