The Penthouse Night Club in Vancouver says a new sign, “try our locally sourced honeypots,” was posted by marquee master Ben Jackson as a playful nod to a current Nvidia-related spy scandal.
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Vancouver’s Penthouse Night Club has put up a new marquee sign with the message, “try our locally sourced honeypots,” drawing on espionage jargon and a current Nvidia-related scandal.
In the sign’s reference to a “honeypot,” the club is using a term described as espionage jargon for using a romantic interest to gain insider secrets from a company or government.
Marquee master Ben Jackson said the idea came after his buddy Bryan Jacob asked whether he had plans to make a sign about the scandal. “I did not at the time, but he wisely pointed out that there was something funny with the word honey pot. After some back and forth, we came up with the sign that's up now,” Jackson said.
Jackson added that while he does not “often get too much help from friends or the public,” Jacob “definitely steered me in the right direction on this one.”
The club also created a new Instagram account after Meta removed an earlier one that Jackson shared with a sign reading, “Can't handle a pool, but wants our lake?” Jackson said the reference was to Donald Trump’s statements about wanting to rename Lake Ontario while not having the capacity to maintain the Washington reflecting pool.
Jackson said the new Instagram account had already been taken down and returned three times this week, and he said the new sign is not featured on the account. “So I'm not holding my breath,” he said.
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