{"id":36551,"date":"2011-06-26T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/paybacks-a-bitch\/"},"modified":"2011-06-26T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T14:39:00","slug":"paybacks-a-bitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/paybacks-a-bitch.php","title":{"rendered":"Payback&#8217;s a bitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>We all remember this hit TV commercial from the late 1980s.  And some 25 years later, the Russians are getting their revenge.<\/p><p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/adage.com\/article\/adages\/sexy-wendy-russia-surprises-wendy-s\/228417\/\">Adage.com<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-hlAIHObXMSA\/TgdHfAHBFVI\/AAAAAAAATt8\/hKKFCtwX8TA\/s1600\/RedStilletos.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0323c_RedStilletos.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Turns out Wendy in Russia is a little sexier than Wendy in the states. <\/p><p>The Moscow Times reports that a Wendy's in Moscow -- the first stand-alone location in Russia -- featured two girls outside the restaurant dressed as Wendy during the location's opening. Sure, the girls had the signature pigtails and ribbons, but they wore short dresses, striped knee-high socks and stiletto heels -- which, now that we think about it, sounds kind of like a \"sexy\" Halloween costume.<\/p><p>Wendy's\/Arby's Group Chief Operating Officer Andrew Skehan told the Moscow Times that he had not been aware of the of the franchise group's decision to sex up the icon...<\/p><\/blockquote><p><em>Editor's comment - We can only imagine what the models at a new Wendy's franchise in Riyad, Saudi Arabia would look like?<\/em><\/p><p><em>Breitbart's <a href=\"http:\/\/bigpeace.com\/nmachiavelli\/2011\/06\/25\/culture-clash-russians-sex-up-wendy-of-wendys-restaurants\/\">BigPeace.com<\/a> has the photo of the women.<\/em><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0323c_7828681836623105417-7135106860642696768?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Eric Dondero:We all remember this hit TV commercial from the late 1980s. And some 25 years later, the Russians are getting their revenge.From Adage.com:Turns out Wendy in Russia is a little sexier than Wendy in the states. The Moscow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/paybacks-a-bitch.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}