Paris’s Carl’s Jr. ad just keeps on giving

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Flickr user BlueAlgae was surprised to open up her mail the other day and find this postcard for a local dry-cleaners. “For starters,” she writes, “the image is an obvious rip from the Carl’s Jr. commercial featuring Paris Hilton. That I got, but I still have no idea why this image is relevant to dry cleaning. Perhaps the strategy was to grab people’s attention with a semi-naked ‘celebrity,’ but I kind of doubt that the 20-something guys who salivate over Paris’ image are likely to actually use a dry cleaning service.”

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