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Booble.com Gets Denied by CBS

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What do you do when your adult website gets turned down from advertising on national television – the Super Bowl to be exact? Send out a press release.

Booble.com (we will refrain from linking to the site for obvious reasons), an adult search engine had offered CBS $50 million at one point to advertise during the Super Bowl, one of the most sought-after programs on TV. CBS didn’t even call the company back after the ridiculous offer.

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Booble claims that their commercial is far "tamer" than the GoDaddy add which ran in 2005, and says their commercial is pretty funny (which Super Bowl ads are not?) and features a woman catching her husband trying to secretly check out a few adult sites (I don’t think many wives would think that’s funny, would yours?). Booble credits the tight commercial restrictions to the Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction" a few years ago. We think it has something to do with them being an adult website…

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