If the medium is the message, then animal rights, as conveyed by PETA, are a parade of B-list celebrities who get naked a lot while throwing around buckets of red paint and evoking the Holocaust to get attention.
And now, thanks to their new campaign, you can add, "while brandishing a piquant wit on par with the creators of Garbage Pail Kids" to that description.
If you've ever wondered, "How could a good cause, like boycotting fur, become really, really annoying?" Now you have your answer: Puns, puns, tired jokes, and still more puns.
From their press release:
After ignoring pleas to stop wearing fur and using it in their fashion collection, thin-twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are about to get some publicity that will have them running away faster than if they'd spotted a calorie. That's because peta2…will launch its "Trollsen Twins" campaign by unveiling an ad featuring images of fur fiends Mary-Kate and Ashley in the most unflattering photo that peta2 could find…
Peta2 has launched a brand-new Web site devoted entirely to the Trollsens—who are known on the site as "Hairy-Kate" and "Trashley." It features a "Fatal Fashion" animated dress-up game complete with animal skins and the accompanying blood; a mash-up video called "Full House of Horrors"