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Orbitz Makes With The Procrastinetty Marketing

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Orbitz.com, already my favored online travel search engine (although, now that their format has been copied by everyone else, it's pretty much a toss-up again), has launched the "Orbitz Games," where you play charming little online time-wasters for fun and prizes.

Specifically, if you register (not a problem for me, as Orbitz already has all my info) and play the daily Featured Game, you're entered to win a daily Vegas Vacation giveaway, and for the Grand Prize of 12 round trip vacations for two in one year. (Who would actually have the time to go away every month, I have no idea...)

Today's featured game is "Island Hop," where you have to bounce a small blue penis from island to island.

Yes, a small blue penis. I'm not sure *why* Orbitz decided that a little blue dong was the best possible character for this game, but there he is:

He climbs on a teeter totter and, depending on the angle and force you choose via mouse click, is launched into the air. At the moment of launch he looks, if anything, even MORE like a schlong than he looks here. Let me see if I can get a screen capture...

Ha ha, yes, there he is. A little blue meat-and-two-veg with hands and feet floating along behind:

If you poke around in the rest of the arcade, there are a plethora of time-wasting goodies. I predict Twin C will find himself out of a job before Wednesday of next week.

Enjoy the marketing goodness!

Posted by rjt at September 23, 2005 04:53 PM