Word: billboarded
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...there is DateLance.com—and its corresponding billboard, perched on I-15 near Utah Lake and hawking the site’s sole service...
...Both billboard and web site introduce Lance Archibald as the proverbial perfect match—he is a 2003 Harvard Business School graduate, a former basketball player for Brigham Young University, and the director of marketing for a graphic design company. And as an unmarried 31-year-old member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints—whose adherents often marry in their early-to-mid twenties—he is something of an oddity...
...unique in the age of ubiquitous cyber-aggrandizement, however, is that Archibald—who now has more than 1,600 applicants to choose from—had no hand in the site. In fact, Archibald didn’t know it existed until he drove by his own billboard, which is in Lindon, some 40 miles to the south of Salt Lake City...
Although the billboard is in an obscure location, Bates said the applications—most of them not evidently jokes—have been streaming in from around the globe since the Associated Press reported on the unorthodox campaign last Friday...
...allegedly videotaped himself engaging in wildly inappropriate behavior with his 14-year-old goddaughter. You might think the stigma of such charges would have an effect on Kelly's 10-year reign as R&B's most beloved entendrist. You'd be wrong. His new album, TP.3 Reloaded, entered Billboard's album chart at No. 1 last week, selling a robust 491,000 copies and earning mixed, but not outraged, reviews. Other famous people--Bill Clinton, Kobe Bryant--have remained popular while dealing with sex scandals, but their entanglements were with adults and their professions did not provide a constant...