A Finger For Boeing

By Tiffany Craig Investigative Reporter
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A Mobile restaurant has a message for the airplane giant  "We Would Like To Offer Boeing A Finger." A Finger For Boeing
Published: Mon, June 23, 2008 - 5:40 pm
Tiffany Craig
Tiffany Craig
Mobile's future as the world's third manufacturer of large airplanes is still very much up in the air.

The Air Force has made no decision about what to do since the Government Accountability Office sided with Boeing on Wednesday.

Their recommendation is a re-bid on the 40 billion dollar military contract.

Northrop Grumman and EADS are flying under the radar these days... giving a local chicken-finger restaurant the chance to steal the spotlight.

They have a deal for Boeing that some say is finger-licking good!

The Mobile-based Foosackly's chain has a new sign up that says "We would like to offer Boeing a finger."

The brainchild of the billboard is Foosackly's owner Will Fusaiotti. He says he was clearing the marquis sign and was thinking of what to put up. "I was like we're gonna go with "71 days til football season" to start ramping up football season letting people know. As we were doing it, I said ahh let's wait on that. Let's do something about this whole Boeing thing they announced."

Usually Foosackly's creative advertising comes from the Red Square Agency. Rich Sullivan admits that his team had no hand in this one. "Sometimes the client will come to the table with some pretty great stuff and this is one of those cases. He managed to do something tongue in cheek that obviously people get a huge kick out of when you've got the guts to say what everybody else is thinking."

Depending on the feedback, the billboard will stay up through the end of the week.

If you're interested in a mini version of the message, bumper stickers will be available at the restaurant soon.


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MeAmerican, I don’t care who you are or where you live, but I’m curious as to why you care about what people on the internet think of you?

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The only reason I was wondering if you were from around here was because of your bitterness about the area and about the NG/EADS deal. I believe that the majority of people in the Gulf Coast area are pleased to have this contract, and do not understand if you ARE local, why you aren’t.

You are right it is NOT about YOU. It is about the welfare and safety of our men and women who protect ALL of us. Which is something that appears Boeing is not concerned about.

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No real substance to the debate?  Are you legally blind?

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Is personal attacks all you have? No real substance to any of debates. Mobile is a washed up pitiful little bleep on the radar and you’re so bitter about it that its causing ignorance. I don’t have to say names because you know who you are.
Why you wanna know so much about me? It’s not about me!!

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if you google MeAmerican you find out, there is a clothing store Meamericn in pa.  sounds like that would be his/her neck of the woods. could have relatives in the area or a boeing spy. http://www.meamerican.net/index.htm

also another boeing scandal. have not heard about this one thanks MeAmerican..

http://www.nbc10.com/money/16258106/detail.html

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I would say that is Southern hospitality-but of course self-centered northeners wouldn’t understand about that. MeAmerican, are you from around here? Just curious, as I thought I had read some of your posts on different local subjects.

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I don’t understand how the sign is tasteless? Best I can tell, Boeing employees get a free Foo Snack? I mean there is a difference between someone giving you THE finger and A finger. Besides they’re not even GIVING…it’s just an offer. They don’t have to eat the chicken if they don’t want to….
And this Boeing767AT character has actually pi55ed me off enough to want NG to come here. (Before I was afraid of all the darn traffic it would bring to the Midtown/Downtown area)

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I’m talking crossing that line mentally and physically!

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MEAMERICAN, you can be a true lib or an outright socialist or the other choice, just cross the MASON-DIXON LINE headed south and become a true American that can think on their own without a corporation telling them what to do and think!It’s not all that hard of a choice if you like to think for your self.

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http://www.thelastinspector.com/id18.html

MeAmerican or should i say porkMeAmerican, i found this article for you. i bet your colors are going off, alert, alert, dive, dive, lol i have another picture i am going to post in your boeing war room. lol

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