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The 10 Weirdest Ad Stories of the Month

By Jim Edwards

Updated on: September 30, 2010 / 2:40 PM EDT / MoneyWatch

Angry sausage eaters! Too much information about shaving down there! A fabric freshener for NFL fans! It all happened in September 2010 ...

Christian Dior thinks all Chinese people look the same
These ads for their Shanghai store suggest clothes to help them stand out from the crowd.
Long slogans are absolutely, positively more effective than short ones
There's a reason you don't know who uses the tagline "We can" but you do know who uses "Melts in your mouth, not in your hands."
The Sherry Council of America wants to be trendy again
"Secret Sherry Society" campaign to update image of drink favored by pillars of society in 1950s. Prediction: It will all go swimmingly until someone actually tastes sherry.
Ladies, if your man likes football you should clean up after him
And you can use P&G's Febreze NFL to do it.
Frustrated sausage fan rants against crowd-sourced meat ads
No, he doesn't want to go to your microsite and then upload a video of himself riffing on your product. He just wants to buy a nice sausage and be left alone.
Greenpeace doesn't want you shaving down there
This video actually makes deforestation look good. That wasn't the intent, surely?
And while we're on the subject of shaving ...
Yet another Philips website with "entertaining" content about depilation. Warning: It's much, much less sexy than you think it's going to be.
Cami Secret ad gets a voiceover that says what you really think
"The Cami Secret is quite possibly the worst idea in the history of mankind." It's NSFW, too.
Don't tweet "suck on that you faggots" if you're an Olympic star with endorsement deals
Because those advertisers will drop your contracts if you do, as they did with Stephanie Rice. (Plus, it's wrong.)
How could this possibly go wrong?
Drivers in Vancouver who go too fast will be startled by a moving 3-D image of a girl chasing a ball into the street.

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