Posted by: Jim | April 4, 2008

Winner of the Stupidest Advertisement of the Year Award

Drumroll please…. The winner of the stupidest advertisement of the year is Lifeway- the publishing ‘arm’ of the Southern Baptist Convention. Their ad states

Temp Help Needed at the SBC Meeting in Indy

We need two workers at the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana to assist the LifeWay Research team. We are looking for two energetic seminary students to work (for pay) Monday and Tuesday, June 9 and 10. One would work the hours of 9-5 and one is needed the hours of 10-8. Email research@lifeway.com for directions how to proceed if interested. You must be SBC and cannot have been anywhere near anything sinful in the last 6 months.

Note- that ad hasn’t been altered at all by me and has been posted as it appeared here. I mention this because I feel certain that someone at Lifeway has at least a little bit of sense and so they will change it as soon as the ridiculousness and stupidity so obvious to the rest of us is pointed out to them. With thanks to Doug Chaplin for pointing me to Darrell Pursiful who saw it first.

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Responses

  1. so to work there, you have to be southern baptist AND use a mac???

    By: Robert R. Cargill on April 4, 2008
    at 4:16 pm

  2. Yes- and what are the chances of that?????

    By: Jim on April 4, 2008
    at 4:18 pm

  3. Does the ad count as sinful? (sin of stupidity comes to mind) If so then who could possibly apply?

    By: Frank Emanuel on April 4, 2008
    at 4:25 pm

  4. I realize some might be inclined to think that the ad is a joke- but Lifeway doesn’t joke. Believe me- they are serious.

    By: Jim on April 4, 2008
    at 4:31 pm

  5. Jim, hmmmmmm…

    “Lifeway doesn’t joke. Believe me- they are serious”

    Actually I don’t believe you. Grin. Check around the blog next time.

    Satire is common at edstetzer.com.

    We are having a good time.

    I found the ad, and your response, funny… next time I hope you can join in the fun rather than pronounce my ad “stupid.”

    By: Ed Stetzer on April 4, 2008
    at 10:05 pm

  6. Believe me Ed, y’all don’t have a corner on the sarcasm market. I know a thing or two about it as well. Maybe even three things. ;-)

    By: Jim on April 4, 2008
    at 10:37 pm

  7. fair enough… and good to meet you via blog… I am poking around your site as we speak

    By: Ed Stetzer on April 4, 2008
    at 10:46 pm

  8. I coulda been a contenda– but there was that double dutch chocolate ice cream five months ago… Sigh.

    By: Chuck Grantham on April 5, 2008
    at 12:43 am

  9. Thanks Ed. And don’t worry, a guy once told me ‘when I first met you I hated you- but then after about 3 years I actually came to like you’. So give it 3 years or so and I’ll grow on ya! :-)

    By: Jim on April 5, 2008
    at 8:13 am


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