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Red hanky..

I wasn't sure if this ad was real or not. It just had to be a spoof.
After checking it online, seeing some major newspapers & Vista Magazine wrote about it, and verifying with someone within MS itself made me assume it is real, yet, it is still hard to believe for me.
Really. How can someone *not* know, how could it pass all controls.
I am not talking about song, or the cheesiness (which was surely meant to be), but about the red hanky Bruce/lookalike is wearing..

When seeing this picture, you definitely have to think about Bruce Springsteen's cover of Born in the USA.

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But repeating this image nowadays is rather strange.
Bruce did have a lot of 'trouble' after putting his but on the cover like that.
Because red hankies in your right back-pocket do mean something, from a gayish point of view.

The Gay Hankie Code, has been around since the 1970's. The different colors are code for what activity you are looking for and if you the giver of such activity it goes into your left pocket, if you are the receiver of such activity it goes into your right pocket. The red hankie is a bit hardcore. You may want to fully understand the code before you go about dropping hankies into your back pockets.

Bruce had the excuse back then it wasn't a hanky, but a baseball hat.
Yet, today it is definitely a hanky.
Red actually means 'f*st f*ck'
Right pocket means you're the passive one, the bottom, the one being 'screwed' ;)

Getting this translated into the Vista ad (rockin our sales = red hanky)..
Well....from a marketing point of view it wasn't really the best choice made, I guess.

(Luckily they didn't choose 'Teal Blue' *rotfl* )

After re-reading all of this, I do think it is a good joke they made.
Just because of that red hanky :)