Tuesday, July 05, 2005

You gotta love people. For the last couple of years there seems to have been a never-ending flow of hard-up students and attention-seekers who've been selling their forehead to the highest bidder on eBay or though one of a few sites that have appeared to make a buck or two out of this very niche market. In exchange for a couple of hundred dollars the forehead's owner gets to sport the highest bidder's logo for a month or so. Online gambling seems to lead the rankings when it comes to signing up 'mobile billboards' in this odd-ball craze.

Then, of course, someone has to go that little bit too far; someone decides to make the advert permanently. Kari Smith from Utah in the US has auctioned the right for a company to have their logo permanently tattooed across her forehead. In exchange Goldenpalace.com have handed her the princely sum of $10,000 (which works out at about 34p a day if she lives til she's the ripe old age of 70).

Something tells me she might not be the smartest cookie in the box: To everyone else, it seems like a stupid thing to do. To me, $10,000 is like $1 million."

By the sound of it she may have a empty space up for rent inside her head as well as outside.

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