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29 October 2007 in Human Nature, Marketing, Photography by Stilgherrian | 5 comments

As dusk fell on Perth last night, I noticed this billboard advertising Sexpo with the odd imperative: Ride the Sex Train Gerbil! Erm, OK.
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29 October 2007 at 8:17 pm
Teresa
That confused me too; seems a bit of a strange thing to use as a drawing point of the expo. Maybe it’s to bring in people who are curious about what the heck a sex train gerbil is?
29 October 2007 at 8:21 pm
Stilgherrian
@Teresa: I’m assuming that the sex train was some sort of ride-em device, and the gerbil was a suit job — that is, a someone in a promotional mascot animal suit. But given the event I could be very, very wrong…
Still, it got us talking about the event — even though it finished a week ago
30 October 2007 at 2:07 pm
grum
The gerbil was just an overpriced ride that you’d normally find at the show grounds. Imagine a haunted house, but instead of having ghouls and zombies jump at you, you have silhouettes of people banging instead.
Rather dull to be honest.
My bulk spam mail folder has more racy stuff in it.
30 October 2007 at 2:25 pm
Stilgherrian
@grum: Oh dear, that’s even more lame that I’d thought. And on another note, t’was truly a pleasure to meet you on the weekend.
30 October 2007 at 7:54 pm
grum
@Stilgherrian yes, it was truly a meeting to pleasure you too.
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