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* Wal-Mart punts industrial strength feminine deodorant

John Wards

Anit=poof hair... 

IT Angle

Ah Canada..the home also of Anti-poof hair.

http://www.antipoofhair.com

Sadly that is now a promo site for something else...however anti-poof is still listed here

http://www.gethairapy.ca/en/products.html

Hollerith

Arrr...when I was a girl... 

...growing up on the Canadian prairies, we caught gophers and bit their heads off with our bare teeth. Deodorant? Leave that to those sissies below the 49th parallel.

Ex-IT

Thanks... 

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That takes care of Christmas for the other half...

Anonymous Coward

(untitled) 

IT Angle

I don't usually care that an IT angle is lacking as long as it's funny..

blackworx

As opposed to Dundee 

Joke

Where the women are men and the men are sheep.

Baaa.

Ken Hagan

The IT angle 

IT Angle

Do you really think this juxtaposition of images would have been missed if a human being had been involved?

P Saunders

We canadians are a tough lot 

IT Angle

The girls I knew used bald people as roll-on deodorants and sheep as tampons.

IT angle? What IT angle?

Wize

@blackworx 

Or just up the road in Aberdeen, where men are men and sheep are scared.

Tim

Hahahaha! 

Paris Hilton

And where exactly does it say "Deodorant"?

As for the IT angle...the applicator looks technological.. don't it?

Paris, because she is a feminine spray.

Anonymous Coward

Too Bloody Right 

Dead Vulture

> "This has also been said of NZ and Oz but not, we hasten to add, by us."

So, just who's callin' who a sheila, mate?

Anonymous Coward

Not actually a site listing problem 

Flame

It's more a problem with the fact that they have separate ID and ImageID parameters in the URL. You can just fabricate any type of odd listing by changing the imageid parameter.

http://walmart.ca/wps-portal/storelocator/Canada-HealthAndBeauty.jsp?selection=listingDetails&page=hb&lang=null&assetId=29628&imageId=42448&suggestedItem=&priceType=1&page=null&departmentId=14&categoryId=1155

Anonymous John

Mine's 

Coat

the one you can smell from 50 yards away.

Anonymous Coward

Shome mishtake, shurely... 

Coat

They're really selling the (actual) product as "Ultra - Extra strength"?

<boggle>

Who the hell's gonna walk into a shop and ask for that? Bit of an embarassing admission, don't you think?

This has to be about as bad a marketing move as would be selling "Micro-Mini size" condoms!

Anonymous Coward

Looks like a versions for teenagers 

Coat

Who need to use at least half a can a day, just to sulk in their bedrooms. Mines the one with a reassuringly unpleasant smelling nose peg in the pocket.

grumpy

Oooh 

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Just checked the alternate shot. That thing compresses very nicely thankyouverymuch. What with conservation of energy/mass and whatnot it's probably the densest object on the planet, or close. Might be one or two Leaders of the Free World who can give it a run for its money...

Steve

Not forgetting the lip gloss 

IT Angle

http://tinyurl.com/3oj4or

Sally Hansen Lip Exfoliator & Moisturizer

Anonymous Coward

Now she is my kind of Bicycle 

Paris Hilton

http://tinyurl.com/3sqxrh

This is a fun game isn't it!

Anonymous Coward

To easy 

Happy

For the gentlemen

http://tinyurl.com/4nd9xk

and the ladies

http://tinyurl.com/4ffj6a

Anonymous Coward

@Shome mishtake, shurely... 

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shouldn't that be Microsoft condoms.

Solomon Grundy

Silly Virgins 

About half of the people who already commented have obviously not read the article nor seen a real vagina.

Most of the others obviously have never hooked up with a Canadian woman. Their nether regions smell like lavender and taste like 1963 St. Julian.

Anonymous Coward

@Solomon Grundy 

No your thinking about this one, looks the same but its a very different product.

http://tinyurl.com/3p3gsq

Anonymous Coward

is that 

Joke

A 1963 St. Julian tuna?

J

Re:Not actually a site listing problem 

Happy

That was good.

J

Re: Shome mishtake, shurely... 

Coat

"Who the hell's gonna walk into a shop and ask for that? Bit of an embarassing admission, don't you think?"

Well, yeah... That's why they were shopping online to begin with,,,

J

Last but not least... 

Pirate

It looks like El Reg should launch a new competition (with prizes to match, of course): come up with the best "faked" Canadian Walrus-Mart listing. You're welcome.

Anonymous Coward

What about the... 

Coat

Person looking for a power washer and encountering a douche bag? (I mean besides the salesperson)

Mine's the one that smells like vinegar...

rasputinsDog

Some new tires? 

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http://tiny.cc/6Y9jK

Dr Patrick J R Harkin

In the words of Boothby Graffoe... 

"I'm a bad man but I'm a much worse woman,

Cos I don't understand sanitary things.

I say 'Forget all that; just use a vampire bat'

It's eco-friendly and it's got wings"

http://tinyurl.com/3ner2x

Dai Kiwi

Re: Not actually a site listing problem 

I like this. Randomly changing the IDs gives some ... interesting ... combinations. Entertaining. Shame its not friday.

Hollerith

@ solomon grundy 

I'd choose different examples, but agree that Canadian women are indeed fragrant and delicious.

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