1979 Pakistan airline ad

http://www.2spare.com/item_92595.aspx ^ | 1/9/2008 | vanity

[Mr. Mojo]

Just did it. Beyond eerie. The skull/crossbones combined with the Star of David was a nice finishing touch.

[G8 Diplomat]

Write ISLAM in wingdings....LOL.

The bomb, the sad face, and the droplet (looks like blood) fit perfectly. And the two fingers making the peace sign are like the “religion of peace” rhetoric they try to pull.

[geopyg]

Now I have to see if one of my pre2001 computers still works to check it out on there!

[Mr. Mojo]

Works just as well on any email account that has the wingdings font. (I just did it on Yahoo mail).

[G8 Diplomat]

Know what else is creepy (but also rather appropriate)? 'Allah' in Arabic looks like 911:

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[Mr. Mojo]

“MOHAMMED” has three bombs and a white flag, btw.

[geopyg]

I see someone else was adding on with the wingings.

USA comes up with a Christian Cross, a tear shape and a hand with the peace symbol - reminded me of the modern-day version if you add a bit of purple Iraqi voting ink to the tip of one finger!

[Mr. Mojo]

Coincidences abound!

[Cindy]

Yes, I’ve seen it before, but can only say, “Interesting.”

Since I only saw it a couple of days ago, and depicted as a ragged edged newspaper; I have no idea if this is disinformation and/or someone’s art project.

[GOPJ]

You’re right. Creepy. Thanks for the ping.

[King of Florida]

I don’t recall seeing it, but I doubt it’s faked. I flew Pakistan Air from JFK to Paris back in 1982, not by choice, but because the cheap youth hostel type travel agency in NYC booked me on it as the cheapest flight going to Paris on the day I wanted to travel (I was booked to come back to NYC later in the year on Air Florida, believe it or no). They knocked the living crap out of my bags . . . .

[MD_Willington_1976]

Quite honestly, I read about this kind of attack in a book published in 1979...

The books title is “Technological Terrorism”...

[July 4th]

I actually sort of like the idea of doing that to the front of a fridge. Not THAT particular picture, but if you can’t have stainless steel...

[AliVeritas]

I take it you’ve never heard of Amerikabomber a la Hitler?

[AliVeritas]

Straight out of Century of Self.

[umgud]

I take it you’ve never heard of Amerikabomber a la Hitler?

No, but I just googled it. Of course the Paki ad used the Twin Towers as a backdrop.