F'd Ad Fridays: There's no serial killing in baseball!

The Globe and Mail reports that this just-launched logo, for a minor league baseball team in London, Ontario, is not everyone's style of brand humour. London Mayor Joe Fontana says he has "serious concerns" about having his city's pro sports team named after a misogynistic serial killer, while Megan Walker, executive director of the London Abused Women's Centre, objected to the “very creepy-looking man” in the logo and the team's tagline, “Lurking in Labatt Park this spring.”

Me, I think this outrage is a bit of a stretch. The brand is tasteless, sure. But it's not like they named themselves after Robert Pickton. There's something to be said for the healing passage of time.

F'd Ad Fridays: Even ugly politicians get laid at Ashley Madison!

Copyranter posted this pic of an online extramarital dating ad. It was erected in London, and features the very Pythonesque mug of scruffy Mayor Boris Johnson.

Johnson is also known to scandal sheet readers as a womanizer, you see, through headlines like this:

Maybe he could benefit from meeting some more discreet homewreckers...

F'd Ad Fridays: DiscoWHAT?!?

This modest Indian take away menu from the UK has been making the rounds online this week as "the greatest typo ever". I found one reference to it that was over 2 years old (with tasteless ads). I'll have to assume they've fixed it by now. Unless, of course, it resulted in a huge increase in soon-to-be-disappointed customers.

Lou Reed/Metallica poster banned from London Underground

It must feel like the good old days for Lou, being banned for being too "street".

Animal's Marina Galperina reports that posters depicting the cover of the new Lou/Metallica album, Lulu, have been banished from the Tube. Not for the armless and nippless bust, mind you, but for featuring lettering that looks too much like graffiti.

This can be nothing but good publicity for the album, to be released this Halloween.

So far, I'm not sure it's sounding like a great combination of talents: