While driving in the San Fernando Valley I saw a billboard
ad that surprised me. It was an image of the sea in the style of an old
Japanese woodcut print, and the headline read: “Syphilis Tsunami”. It’s kind of
a yucky message anyway, but to make the comparison to the earthquake
and tsunami that hit Japan in 2011 I thought was perhaps in questionable taste. (The Japanese woodcut style image makes the connection pretty clear.)
But this led me to wondering: Were the following headlines
already taken: “Herpes Hurricane” (with an image of hurricane devastation),
“Chlamydia Cyclone” (with an image of cyclone devastation), “Gonorrhea Gale”
(with an image of sailboats being tossed about), “V. D. Volcano” (with an image
of an erupting volcano), and: “STD Super Storm” (with an image of an enormous
hurricane radar image)? Those might work too.
This is what the billboard looks like:
