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  • Beer offer adds to bloody ad ban (Stupid Canadians ALERT!!!)

    03/21/2006 9:36:53 PM PST · by Aussie Dasher · 82 replies · 2,137+ views
    Herald Sun ^ | 22 March 2006
    FIRST it was "bloody", then it was "hell" and now it's "beer" itself that's tripping up an Australian tourism advertising campaign. The recently launched and now controversial advertisement which concludes with the tagline "where the bloody hell are you?" has now run foul of the Canadian regulator. But it's not the tagline that's the trouble this time as much as the opener: "I've bought you a beer". Tourism Minister Fran Bailey said she had been told by Canadian authorities they could not accept that line. "We now have the Canadian authorities not wanting us to use the opening segment of...