Super manly man, Nick Offerman, (famous for playing Ron Swanson in Parks and Recreation) is a celebrity in Madurai. No, they are not dubbing the famous sitcom in Tamil (at least not yet). Instead, the famous mustachioed face features in a public toilet in Tamil Nadu’s most famous temple town.
This is amazing. A bathroom in Madurai, India, uses @Nick_Offerman as the visual representation of “man.” pic.twitter.com/qBaypdDp65
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) January 16, 2016
The photo, uploaded on Twitter by user @KenTremendous, quickly went viral. Twitter users ensured that Offerman noticed the tweet.
Attn: @Nick_Offerman, your face is being used in an ad for a public bathroom in Chennai. pic.twitter.com/1ldSVCqBIR
— Emily Guendelsberger (@emilygee) January 27, 2016
Soon, the actual photographer surfaced.
@KenTremendous @Nick_Offerman oh wow! I took this picture yesterday and posted to facebook. I both can and can’t believe it’s gone viral.
— Michelle Blimes (@MichelleBlimes) January 16, 2016
And just like that, the man himself entered the conversation.
#Namaste https://t.co/9tCvPYtPmA
— Nick Offerman (@Nick_Offerman) January 16, 2016
You know Nick Offerman’s made it when his uber-manly on-screen persona is taken so seriously in real life, and that too in the opposite end of the world, that it’s used as a sign to signify ‘men’ in a public toilet.