Billboard Gives New Meaning to Life at Sea

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Some people look ad ads and see one thing. Others look and see quite another. That seems to be the case with a recent billboard for the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard in England. What could be seen as a perfectly representative image depicting life at sea back in the day when men were men and women had a raw deal, others see as representative of another form of life at sea. One which portrays a very different sort of relationship between a captain and his mates.

What's that saying? Oh yea. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Or something.

by Steve Hall    Aug-27-08   Click to Comment   
Topic: Outdoor, Strange   

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Someone alert Bob Garfield.

Posted by: wheatley on August 27, 2008 3:11 PM

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is delighted, if a little surprised, at all the interest our latest billboard campaign has received. The image used in this billboard was produced 2 years ago in all innocence, but with the hindsight provided by its recent online coverage I can now see that we might have chosen the camera angle a little better!

Whilst I can't see us using the same image on future billboards, it's great to see an attraction as important to Britain's heritage as Portsmouth Historic Dockyard reaching a wider audience. We hope that some of the readers of this article are encouraged to learn more about us from our website at www.historicdockyard.co.uk or even come and visit us for themselves.

Posted by: Portsmouth Historic Dockyard on August 28, 2008 7:55 AM

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is delighted, if a little surprised, at all the interest our latest billboard campaign has received. The image used in this billboard was produced 2 years ago in all innocence, but with the hindsight provided by its recent online coverage I can now see that we might have chosen the camera angle a little better!

Whilst I can't see us using the same image on future billboards, it's great to see an attraction as important to Britain's heritage as Portsmouth Historic Dockyard reaching a wider audience. We hope that some of the readers of this article are encouraged to learn more about us from our website at www.historicdockyard.co.uk or even come and visit us for themselves.

Posted by: Portsmouth Historic Dockyard on August 28, 2008 7:56 AM

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is delighted, if a little surprised, at all the interest our latest billboard campaign has received. The image used in this billboard was produced 2 years ago in all innocence, but with the hindsight provided by its recent online coverage I can now see that we might have chosen the camera angle a little better!

Whilst I can't see us using the same image on future billboards, it's great to see an attraction as important to Britain's heritage as Portsmouth Historic Dockyard reaching a wider audience. We hope that some of the readers of this article are encouraged to learn more about us from our website at www.historicdockyard.co.uk or even come and visit us for themselves.

Posted by: Portsmouth Historic Dockyard on August 28, 2008 7:57 AM

Life in the navy used to be very, very hard.

Posted by: FishNChimps on August 29, 2008 10:55 AM

once again-- sex sells

Posted by: akugel on September 5, 2008 9:54 PM