| It seems that Call
Sign’s September cover – which showed our first-ever nude shot –
has created something of a stink! An advertising company in New Bridge Street had asked Dial-a-Cab to provide several taxis for a photo shoot that involved the cabs being washed by several bikini-clad young models near Centre Point. The ad was for Scholl Foot Cream – although we still haven’t been able to work out the connection – and featured in addition to those in the bikinis, a bronzed, totally nude young lady laying on her front and sunbathing while displaying a brown body and very white bum! One of the DaC drivers was Lionel Meir (A34) and Call Sign’s photographer snapped his cab while it was getting its second wax! Several drivers have now asked why we were prepared to put this colour photo on the cover while at the same time, refuse to advertise table-dancing clubs? Board member Allen Togwell from DaC’s Marketing Department was also against the photo and told Call Sign of a |
CALL SIGN, A NAKED BUM AND THE DAILY SPORT! |
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 Allen Togwell: Found it "distasteful..."
previous experience involving |
Later that day I received a call telling me that something was going on at the back of the building. When I arrived downstairs, there was Tom Whitbread being photographed in the back of one of our cabs with five naked women of all shapes and sizes! I went ballistic and threatened to sue the paper if they published it and fortunately they didn't. I don't know what it is; I'm not gay, I like pretty women, I've sketched hundreds of young nude women at art college and I consider myself to have a strong sense of humour, but there is something about using naked women in any form of advertising that I find distasteful and a complete turn-off. So far as Call Sign is concerned, this was a fun-job that Lionel told the September issue he enjoyed doing. Table dancing ads are a totally different kettle of fish and our policy on advertising them has not changed… |
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| Ex-DaC driver Bob Woodford
writes a regular column for Call Sign from his new home at
Languedoc in France… CALL SIGN EN LA BELLE FRANCE |
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| After
weeks and weeks of relentless heat down here on the Med, at last
the rains came and what a storm we had! Unfortunately the
thunder zapped our modems and most of us in the village have
been offline for over a week! Then the very night I can connect
back to the World Wide Web, I have an email from the Editor
telling me to get my article off tout de suite. Well here goes,
the other 94 emails can wait…! (I should think so! …Ed) My Marathon preparation had been going well until experiencing a few setbacks. Of course what seemed like a good idea - running in the midday sun in readiness for a cold Sunday in New York in November - has thrown up some disadvantages. For a start, I’ve never caught so many flies in the |
mouth before this summer, bat that wasn’t
bad compared to the wasp that decided I was worth a sting on the
tongue, which then became swollen for 3 days! |
could
be dangerous too! I’ve decided to run sporting a Saddam Hussein
mask - that could get a few comments. I’m looking for a T-Shirt Sponsor by the way. It would save me from FBI snipers, because unless I get that Sponsor, I’ll carry out my threat to have ‘Up yours George’ on the shirt! By the way many thanks for donations received so far for our Appeal for Testicular Cancer Research, keep them coming. Please send your cheques, for amounts, however small, to ‘Konzeptions Appeal Fund, HSBC Bank, 3 Bank House, Broadway, Sheerness, Kent. Au revoir for now… Bob Woodford (Ex-P49) Saint Genies de Fontedit, Languedoc, France |
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