> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/240452_bumvertising13.html
This is nothing new.
"And who is so obviously, so notoriously poor as this creature of the two signs, this perambulating packhorse of an advertisement, this hopeless, decayed creature who, if he have but life enough to walk, will do very well as an invitation to buy.
"He is such a biting commentary on life, in one sense, such a coarse, shabby jest in another, that we cannot help but think on him and the conditions which produce him." -- Theodore Dreiser, The Sandwich man
The Sandwichman