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19xxx hoarding in Nugegoda

19XXX hoarding in Nugegoda

I’ve seen these huge billboards in Rajagiriya and Nugegoda advertising 19XXX.org. I think this is a reference to the candidate number of Madhura Vithana and the three checks a voter would make. The site itself is just an image asking to keep Colombo clean. Not great, but not disastrous. Type in 19XXX.com, however, as I did by accident and you are directed straight to porn.

19xxx com vs org

19XXX.org screenshot next to 19XXX.com

While I think it’s cool advertising an web URL and nothing else, perhaps a bit more thought should have gone into this. XXX should set off some alarm bells, and 19XXX quite obviously implies barely legal porn. Add the .org and it comes off as extra wrong when you sound it out.

The website itself is pretty bad, it’s literally a URL that directs you to a smaller hoarding and I still can’t figure out if it’s connected to Vithana or not. He’s run an interesting campaign in Kotte so far, but (if this is him) this latest hoarding is mainly interesting in a bad way.

Posted on Tuesday, September 27th, 2011 in Advertising, Colombo, Tech.

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Resident Princess

2011-09-27 14:20:20

http://www.madhurav.com/

Check out this website! Seems to be the right one.

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indi.ca » Voting In Tomorrow’s Elections

2011-10-07 15:46:09

[...] choices, and I’ve heard that you can vote for the same candidate three times (hence all the XXX advertising). I don’t quite get this. I’ve heard people say that you can thus get three votes, but [...]

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indi.ca » The Kotte Sex Tape

2012-03-30 13:17:16

[...] – 19xxx.org. Which doesn’t quite sound right. That URL went to a campaign page, but if you typed in 19xxx.com you got redirected to porn. I thought that was pretty funny. What’s even more interesting is that Vithana is now [...]

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