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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: eurotrash on March 31, 2011, 10:43:16 PM

Title: Go Daddy CEO puts his elephant-killing on video
Post by: eurotrash on March 31, 2011, 10:43:16 PM
This is one for Dogboy - It shows the video.

Competitors seem to be seeing this as a commercial too--a commercial opportunity. For example, Namecheap.com is offering domain transfers for a mere $4.99. Of this fee, $1 will go to Save The Elephants.

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20049362-71.html#ixzz1IDgik2wT

His taste in music is crap as well (IMHO).
Title: Re: Go Daddy CEO puts his elephant-killing on video
Post by: dogboy on March 31, 2011, 11:02:39 PM
I just saw that headline on FB a bit ago.... I didn't click the link:(

I'm a big fan of elephants.
Title: Re: Go Daddy CEO puts his elephant-killing on video
Post by: Rupert on April 01, 2011, 09:21:01 AM
ooops, I think this will lose him more business than it will gain him
Title: Re: Go Daddy CEO puts his elephant-killing on video
Post by: dogboy on April 01, 2011, 11:41:23 AM
Hemingway shot an elephant once, but the only photographs that were ever released to the public were (ones carefully chosen by him) where he was NOT smiling...

Parsons, is no Hemingway...
Title: Re: Go Daddy CEO puts his elephant-killing on video
Post by: Rumbas on April 01, 2011, 01:30:13 PM
That's wrong in so many ways. I went to Botswana years ago and the DO have huge elephant problem, huge. The only ones licensed to kill elephants are the government and they will come and take care of a problem.

You don't shot elephants at night - they're pretty damn easy to spot in daylight. What Parsons did was poaching.
Personally I also dislike the use of hungry Africans fighting for meat as an ad. Could have spent that money a lot wiser and gotten a lot of positive attention.

That video will (hopefully) hit him like a boomerang.
Title: Re: Go Daddy CEO puts his elephant-killing on video
Post by: ergophobe on April 01, 2011, 03:05:37 PM
Discovering that Parsons is a self-centered egomaniac who kills stuff for pleasure is like discovering that the pope is an old white guy who goes to church.
Title: Re: Go Daddy CEO puts his elephant-killing on video
Post by: Peter on April 01, 2011, 05:29:48 PM
What a shithead
Title: Re: Go Daddy CEO puts his elephant-killing on video
Post by: PaulH on April 01, 2011, 05:58:53 PM
wow! Seen his blog?  :o

http://www.bobparsons.me
what demographic is that aimed at? scary!