http://www.smoothplanet.com/vole-en-2005/412/ It is a smooth world Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:17:56 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.smoothplanet.com/vole-en-2005/412/comment-page-1/#comment-986 Adriana Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:42:43 +0000 http://www.smoothplanet.com/vole-en-2005/412/#comment-986 ha ha--I saw something similar at the Widder Hotel in Zurich. The bottom of the ashtray said something like "Stolen from the Widder Hotel" around the hotel logo. I think it's just a tongue-in-cheek observation that things will inevitably 'walk away' from the hotel. This playfulness also increases the desirability of the 'souvenir' and the 'coolness factor' of the hotel, so in a way it encourages people to just take the ashtray (free advertising, perhaps?). Unfortunately I didn't have a camera with me to snap a picture. (and no, I didn't steal one-don't smoke, so I have no use for it...) ha ha–I saw something similar at the Widder Hotel in Zurich. The bottom of the ashtray said something like “Stolen from the Widder Hotel” around the hotel logo. I think it’s just a tongue-in-cheek observation that things will inevitably ‘walk away’ from the hotel. This playfulness also increases the desirability of the ’souvenir’ and the ‘coolness factor’ of the hotel, so in a way it encourages people to just take the ashtray (free advertising, perhaps?). Unfortunately I didn’t have a camera with me to snap a picture. (and no, I didn’t steal one-don’t smoke, so I have no use for it…)

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