It’s Poker, Not Poke Her!
So we’re walking the Forum Shops in Caesar’s Palace and came across a store call Corsa Collections that had a live mannequin in the window display.
When you think about it, having a live person posing as a mannequin can be more economical than buying a real mannequin. Why pay up to $5,000 for a mannequin when you can hire someone to sit in front of the window for $10 hour during the busy hours. In addition, a real fake mannequin attracts more attention and will often have their picture taken. This is an added branding bonus since Corsa has their store name right under the window.
One can say Corsa really got their money’s worth when we came walking by. Not only did we took pictures, we also did a video. I wonder what was going through her head when I poked her? 
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At the very least this post will send lots of people by the store to poke the mannequin!
Reply to this commentI wonder if there’s a blog out there somewhere that now reads: “So, there I was just doing my job, and this guy came up and poked me! I mean, he poked me! And he took pictures and video tape too. Who knows where that will end up! That’s it! I’m going back to McDonald’s!”
Reply to this commentHaha, nice comment
Reply to this commentLOL i was just thinking about that. I won’t be surprised if someone makes a parody blog just for this incident.
Reply to this commentThis was the nicest thought I read recently anywhere in online comments. LOL!
Reply to this commentLOL
Reply to this commentYeah, wish I were there to perform a “certain” type of experiment and see if she’ll stay zipping it!
BTW, I don’t think it’ll be harmful to let go of some words, laughs….etc. instead of the dead silence. But afterall, this is what makes people curious and John reaching over to “poke” her (in the right place
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Reply to this comment$5,000 for a mannequin? Has no one heard of eBay?
Reply to this commentSure, it’s cheaper for them to pay that person $10 an hour, but once she sues them after being poked by *cough* certain people…that’s when it can get tricky
Alan Johnson
Reply to this commentWell in any case, $5000 isn’t that much in proportion of paying someone $10 a hour (total of 500 working hours, 62 days and a half)
Reply to this commentClassic! We got pictures of this girl as well, although she was moving around a bit when we were there and even looked directly at me and smiled lol… Didn’t even thing to actually try and interact with her; good idea!
And how about those creepy live statues in the Venetian, very odd!~
Reply to this commentLive mannequins? Words fail me.
Reply to this commentWow this is really funny. I wish some store in my town would do such a thing
Reply to this commentIt must be exhausting to do that!
Reply to this commenthaha, great little clip. That store will thank John for the advertisement this post will generate!
Reply to this commentnot only did we took pictures?
Reply to this commentWe once saw a real life one down Oxford Street in London, she was a mannequin modelling underwear
Haha, nice clip John!
Reply to this commentI wonder what she does to pass the time. Maybe she’s planning her career…
Reply to this commentThat must be a career highlight for that young lady, sitting in a shop window being poked by a dot com mogul. What an odd sentence to say…
Reply to this commentThat was harsh hn
Reply to this commentI can just see it John you started a trend. “Security to the front of the store, someone is poking the mannequin again!” comes the voice over the loudspeaker.
Reply to this commentVery nice, John. I like the expression on your face. lol
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What a funny forum here…
Reply to this commentWhat an asshole you are, that’s the last thing she needs.
Did you plaster spam stickers for your site all over her as well?
Reply to this commentIf you listen closely you can hear her whisper her thoughts through her clenched teeth. She says “I’d better get residual income from this, 10 an hour isn’t enough.”
Reply to this commentLol thats hilarious, well done.
Reply to this commentLOL, Nice video you got going there John.
Reply to this comment…how touching
Reply to this commentI saw a store in South Beach take this one step further. The live mannequin was wearing a bikini, but the large sign she was holding hid the bikini and made it look like she was nude. Needless to say, she was stopping traffic.
Reply to this commentI have a friend who does lot’s of retail promo type work… she’s done the live mannequin thing a couple of times, and it makes her FURIOUS when people come and touch her! She says it goes with the territory, though, and she has to just swallow it or not get paid for the job. I’ve wanted to see her at one of these jobs to see if I could touch her and get her to break character. I bet she’d hit me.
Reply to this commentI would rather poke her!
Reply to this commentLMFAO! That is pretty nifty to have a beautiful model in the front
-Mike
Reply to this commentI bet she was thinking, “my face hurts from smiling so much”.
Reply to this commentDamm at first sight i thought that was a real sexy girl!
Evil John Chow… Evil…. Dont simply POKE around ya! 
Reply to this commentthat’s just evil…
Reply to this commentNice post.
Reply to this commentI disagree with getting a real person to do it. People have brains and can do so much like blog crawling and commenting on things like this. ::grin:
Reply to this commentSo what, she is just standing here all day long smiling? omg
Reply to this commentyou call that poking?
Reply to this commentyou barely touched her hair. what a wuss!!!!!