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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????????????????????????? Calm down everything will be alright there ‘petal.You’re true colors shining through!

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MeAmerican , no you started with mobile, crime rate, etc,  guess you just can not stand facts.
typical boeing wahhhh wahhhhhhhhh wahhhhhhhh. boeing need pork.

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MeAmerican, little bit of info for you.

Almost as Many Killed in Obama’s Hometown as in Iraq

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You’re all over the map. What’s the matter? Can’t you come up with a reasonable arguement and stop the personal attacks?  Don’t have much of a choice a true lib or a outright socialist.

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MeAmerican , lol the tanker is no where near atlanta but now boeing home office in chicago wooooohooooooo. want me to get the crime stats for chicago for you. wont take but a minute?

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MeAmerican , you trying your hardest to get that liberal hand out for boeing. bet you carry your o for obama sticker with you every where you go. come on you know you love libs admit it, you will feel better.

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And just how is Atlantas crime rate? Case closed! NEXT!!

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It takes a lib to talk “real liberal”!! You evidently have a not so bright future in that camp!

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working4u, isa here, really from atlanta moved to mobile proud redneck.  i really do know where i am from and i am not anywhere near pritchard all though i am sure there are a lot of fine people there. snakes come in all colors. i was making my remark to MeAmerican , for slaming mobile for annexing and the crime rate, atlanta was not that big until annexation now everybody is from atlanta.

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MeAmerican , now lets talk real liberal, boeing needs the pork money for the tanker purely for cash flow.  then lets talk about boeings home office in chicago, now we all know they are so low
in crime lol, then lets talk about the x mayor daley he was a real conservative for sure. now lets go on to say boeing at their convenience pays back the money the us government funds them to stay in bussiness at their leisure oh yeah they could care less about our military our military means cash flow to them nothing else.

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