Porn & Campbell’s Soup

This actually happened last Thursday, but I had forgotten about it until Renae reminded me at lunch today. It’s too funny not to share.

Okay, first you need to understand that one of the artists who we’ve worked with, and Renae has become friends with, is Bruce Colero. (Note: The previous link is probably not safe for work, as it’s filled with naked women!) He’s an artist known for many things, one of the main ones being his photo-realistic female nudes—often with some exotic themes.

Renae gets routine e-mails from Bruce which he sends her (and many others) with his latest pieces. They can vary, but almost always have naked women. Renae often shares these with the rest of us here in the office. I’ve certainly never objected to seeing his excellent portrayals of the female form. With our current staff, Renae often forwards these e-mails to myself, Digger, and Cam.

It’s the Cam that got Renae in trouble. Her e-mail program generally lets her get away with typing in the person’s name and it fills in the rest. The problem is that Cam is an awfully short name, and she is on a mailing list to receive recipes using cans of condensed soup…

Campbells Kitchen [campbellsservices@familytime.com]

…so when she typed in “CAM” and hit Return she didn’t realize that she was sending a very graphic picture of a naked female devil-woman drawing blood with a fingernail to the back-end of a pale Goth chick (of whom we get an OB-GYN’s eye view of certain delicate parts of her anatomy).

Common sense and decency prevent me from showing you this picture (it’s pretty graphic) but try to imagine Renae forwarding porn to Campbell’s Soup and you can imagine the levels of hysterical laughter that hit our office on Thursday.

Things are never dull here at MWP. My wife makes me smile for many reasons, but this one was definitely different! I can only hope that some poor soup-lady didn’t fall out of her office chair and break her hip.