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Papa John's planning giant crop-circle ad As of August, the folks at Papa John's Pizza will have one more thing in common with aliens. They will be carving a giant crop circle into the wheat fields near Denver International Airport. It will look like a pizza, and is meant to promote the chain’s whole-grain crusts, made with Colorado wheat. The specialty crop circle, designed by artist John Stan Herd, will take an estimated 600 hours to prepare and will be in “full color, with mulch, cut corn and alfalfa bales for toppings.” In other words, it may taste a lot like what they’re already delivering to homes nationwide. However the finished circle looks, let’s hope it doesn’t baffle mathematicians. —Posted by David Kiefaber

July 18, 2008 in Kiefaber | Permalink

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Stan Herd, no?

Posted by: Postadvertina/sleeping in my party dress | Jul 18, 2008 10:52:18 AM

What a fun idea!

Posted by: Jen | Jul 18, 2008 11:13:45 AM

I think it's a horrible thing to do.
There's thousands of people believing in this.
Not only will you ridicule all these people you will redicule their beliefs.
Just for once suppose that their ideas are real. And that more evolved species are trying to get a message through and our answer is a pizza slice ?
Why not a massive message in corn saying that we're idiots and rather destroy this planet than be open minded and consider possibilities.
Thank you for reading my comment.

D.

Posted by: D | Jul 18, 2008 3:04:47 PM

D., you believe that using crop circles to advertise is a horrible idea? First, this has been done before. Even Stan Herd has done commercial work (for Absolut, Northwest Airlines, and others). And is it merely using crop circles as a marketing tool that irks you so, or are you again all crop, um, modification? Don't you think people who believe in crop circles can recognize one created by a "more evolved species...trying to get a message through" from a pizza advertisement?

Personally, I'm more against the potential wasting of so much wheat, particularly given the global food crisis.

Posted by: Postadvertina/sleeping in my party dress | Jul 18, 2008 5:11:18 PM

D.

I would suspect these "evolved species" also know what ads are and read ad freak and so know exactly what is going on.

Second of all, I doubt that wheat would ever reach countries truly feeling the affects of the global food shortage.

Posted by: lomax | Jul 21, 2008 4:33:29 PM

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