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Today’s Choice Links: Marketing the priesthood; Please Rob Me.com a dumb idea; Messing with Wonder Woman; What’s under a Scottish rugby fan’s kilt; Swingers make dating video; Russian mullet; Puma Hard Chorus is quite good; Fooling around in the funeral home is not allowed…

Today’s Choice Links:Why do women cry in comic books?; An owl mid-flight; My New Pink Button – the latest anti-ageing trend; Tweeter arrested; Did the NYT stretch the image of Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks, so they could call her big?; Matt Le Blanc is ageing; A flock of finches plays guitar…

Today’s Choice Links: Strange real estate bits; What girlfriends and boyfriends search Google for; 1000 frames of Hitchcock; A Living Photograph; It’s never a good idea to use suicide theme in an ad; A great cheese ad…

Although the term cougar is tired and degrading Grabaseat are using it in their Cougar Pride promotion. The Air New Zealand site is looking for 60 women who consider themselves “cougars” to attend the NZI Sevens in Wellington as their cougar cheerleaders. To enter, women over 35 must enter their details including a photo. Tackiness aside, what do the winners win? Apparently tickets to the sold-out Wellington event and “cougar costumes and the equipment to make enough noise to attract the attention of young males” but the women will have to fork out for there own flights and accommodation.

The video to promote the promotion uses the equally tired wildlife narration parody angle…

A ad for Breast Cancer Awareness and the ubiquitious Land Transport NZ ad make Adfreak’s 30 freakiest ad of 2009 list. That’s a good freaky rating per capita.

This New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation ad, by Colenso BBDO in Auckland is named 25th most freaky and is described as “ an expanding, grody pink blob takes over a suburban home and eventually smashes through the windows in this breast-cancer awareness spot”.