Because every woman deserves the look and feel of a Madam

blini

Mon, Mar 04 2013, 8:38 pm

There is nothing wrong with addressing someone as Madam. It's the use of Madam as a noun with an article ( as in a madam) that makes it seem funny to someone with a dirty mind (me!) Sorry to offend, I am sure they are lovely sheitels.

penguin

Mon, Mar 04 2013, 8:49 pm

There is a House in New Orleans
They call The Rising Sun
It's been the ruin of many a young man,
And L-rd, I know I'm one.

So mothers tell your children,
Don't do as I have done,
....

zaq

Mon, Mar 04 2013, 9:15 pm

This is just too funny. I thought you were going to show a pic of a very long, lush, secksy wig that might channel the spirit of the proprietress of a "house of pleasure" in Dodge City in 1859 or so.

Cookies and Cream--calling someone "Madam" and calling her "A madam" are two very different things.

studying_torah

Mon, Mar 04 2013, 9:16 pm

reminds me of the ad for a jewish baby clothes store called 'bimbo'- she probably doesn't know what that means either, but it makes me laugh every time I see the ad.....

zaq

Mon, Mar 04 2013, 9:18 pm

penguin wrote:

There is a House in New Orleans
They call The Rising Sun
It's been the ruin of many a young man,
And L-rd, I know I'm one.

So mothers tell your children,
Don't do as I have done,
....

Hunh! I thought the House of the Rising Sun was either a gambling establishment or a drug den. Well, at first I thought it was a house of ill repute, but the song talks about "the only thing a gambler needs" so I revised my initial assumption.

ElTam

Mon, Mar 04 2013, 9:30 pm

A little off topic, but the one that kills me is Pishposh baby. I've cleaned up enough pish in my years of parenting. I don't need to pay for it, thanks.

spinkles

Mon, Mar 04 2013, 9:30 pm

Yes, I could not believe this ad when I saw it! LOL

zaq

Mon, Mar 04 2013, 10:11 pm

Shades of the ad about Valentine's Day that referred to it as VD.

mama says

Mon, Mar 04 2013, 11:27 pm

What reallly amazes me is that they might have come up with the slogan first and then decided to name the wig 'Madam'. Whoever advised them on the slogan REALLY missed American vernacular in school! ha-ha!

feigeleh

Mon, Mar 04 2013, 11:48 pm

haha. I saw that ad and was wondering when someone on imamother would mention it!

smilethere

Tue, Mar 05 2013, 5:29 am

Actually in Europe Madam is the title you would give an elegant/older woman.
In Yiddish it has also seeped through to mean somebody very fancy (or thinks they are)

I can understand where they got it from, but yes it is still amusing...

AlwaysThinking

Tue, Mar 05 2013, 5:45 am

Yeah, calling someone madam may be fine... as a title.. but 'a madam' has bad connotations.

Why a woman would deserve the look and feel of a madam I'm not sure.

I'm not feeling any madams thank you very much.

smilethere

Tue, Mar 05 2013, 8:39 am

Riff wrote:

I'm not feeling any madams thank you very much.

OMG you had me on the floor there...

Jewishmom8

Tue, Mar 05 2013, 8:44 am

Riff wrote:

so funny~
someone should def call them and tell them.

mamaleh

Tue, Mar 05 2013, 8:55 am

I was rolling when I saw this ad!!! Rolling Laughter

About 'Bimbo' while I thought it was a weird name choice, I never saw them use it as a noun reffering to their customers LOL

Barbara

Tue, Mar 05 2013, 9:12 am

Well, there's lots worse out there. My personal favorite is a German company that makes MP3 players under the iBeat name. They decided to put out a cool-looking all black product and called it (ready for this one) iBeat Blaxx. Ads were pulled on the first day, but its still legendary.

Have pity. Email the poor person who placed the ad, and clue her in.

r_ch

Tue, Mar 05 2013, 9:18 am

ElTam wrote:

A little off topic, but the one that kills me is Pishposh baby. I've cleaned up enough pish in my years of parenting. I don't need to pay for it, thanks.

I was frantically looking through the posts if somebody already mentioned pishposh! Yippie, thanks LOL

Ruchel

Tue, Mar 05 2013, 9:45 am

Gosh.
Either write it MADAME, or change the name LOL

penguin

Tue, Mar 05 2013, 11:33 am

Actually my friend calls her cute little granddaughter Miss Madam sometimes (accent on the second syllable) but, yes, quite different from A Madam (accent on the first syllable).

PinkFridge

Tue, Mar 05 2013, 11:36 am

zaq wrote:

Shades of the ad about Valentine's Day that referred to it as VD.

YES! I wrote to Spirit about it. No reply (and points to anyone who knows which popular group sang that one Very Happy

) The thing is, I suspect that the ad was NOT written by a clueless millenial who only knew the term STD.