PubesAid Gets Outed, Hair Keeps Helping the Hungry

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The culprits behind that Pubes Aid campaign (where celebs sell pubies for the young and hungry) have outed themselves in a series of self-aggrandizing press releases. Thank Action Aid for catering to the odd sense of philanthropic perviness you didn’t even know you had.

Body hair is a hot topic among charitable souls with marketing savvy, from Truth’s back hair effort to Telecom Arnet’s offer to help the hairplug-hungry in exchange for fresh broadband meat.

We’re not really sure how to feel about the trend except to say, and this might be too much information, that in the shower this morning we stared at the collected hairball beside the drain for a long while, ruminating on the merits of trying to shape it into an Adrants martini and selling it on Ebay for Darfur dollars. It’s worth a shot, yeah?

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