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See the World with Miss Travel…or the Velvet Jones School of Technology

Take a look this ad for Miss Travel, a service that lets beautiful people see the world for free as the travelling companions of their customers — “doctors, lawyers, bankers, athletes, executives, entrepreneurs and millionaires who are looking to travel with an attractive person like you”:

I love that they use the catchphrase “life is short”, which is also used by the marital infidelity dating site Ashley Madison.

It reminds me of an updated version of this ad for the Velvet Jones School of Technology:

Joey deVilla

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