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Like so many ideas having to do with Chad Ochocinco, this one was awesome: A vanity cereal with info and a phone number for contributions to Feed The Children on it.

ochocincos was a great idea right up until the moment folks dialed the number on their low-fat, honey-nut, toasted oat Ochocincos and found themselves hooked up with a phone-sex company. It seems the FTC number is 1-888-HELP-FTC; the sex-line number has an 800 prefix.

"What! Are you kidding?" Kroger manager Eric Harmon told the Cincinnati Enquirer when a reporter informed him of the problem. "We have a huge display of that."

Although he had nothing to do with it, Ochocinco apologized for the error, then joked (via Joe Reedy of the Enquirer): "Remember, this was made in Pittsburgh. Something isn't right."

PBL Sports of, yes, Pittsburgh had no immediate comment.

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Savvy marketing. Everyone gets deniability, yet it gets sensationalized promotion.


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Is this same number listed on Pepto-Bismol bottles?

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