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To: NicknamedBob; Do not dub me shapka broham

It's okay - it's a national tourist initiative (despite the oh-so-typical shot of the Sydney Opera House that the BBC slapped on the story.) And the British prudishness has caused much amusement here in Australia... nice to see that we've pointed and laughed loud and long enough at their "advertising standards people" to get a result. :-)


3,550 posted on 03/19/2006 12:35:14 AM PST by FriendDownUnder ("So, folks, where the bl**dy hell are ya?")
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To: FriendDownUnder
LOL.

Advertising.

I don't know if you've ever read Augustan Burroughs's memoir-Dry-but it has an hilarious take on the advertising business.

The fact that someone could be perpetually intoxicated and yet still hold a reasonably well-paying job in the ad industry-until being sent to detox-didn't really surprise me.

I have to ask though, is "bloody" really such a bad word?

I mean, I've heard that it's the equivalent of one of those choice expletives that the FCC has such a problem with-and that George Carlin satirized so famously-but I've always wondered.

3,551 posted on 03/19/2006 1:02:43 AM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham ("The moment that someone wants to forbid caricatures, that is the moment we publish them.")
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To: FriendDownUnder
It's okay - it's a national tourist initiative (despite the oh-so-typical shot of the Sydney Opera House that the BBC slapped on the story.)

The world sees Australia they same way they see Ireland - tired, old cliches!

3,569 posted on 03/19/2006 10:31:56 AM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)
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