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Talk about an unfortunate ad insertion. Volkswagen of India's recent newspaper buy, including the Times of India, featured a small vibrating device and asked readers if they could "Feel the shiver of excitement?" The reaction was pretty negative, and folks flocked to Twitter to make lewd jokes and risqué comments. How a gadget that emits vibrations as it vibrates could be mistaken for a vibrator is beyond me, but the local press reports that VW's official India Twitter feed turned the episode into a full-on social-media #fail by tweeting, "Women would be dumb to call it a vibrator.
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