Advanced Photoshop Pictures Contest - 26 image entries Contest Directions: Create controversial / unusual tourism advertisements for any country in the world. (Please remember to keep your entries Safe For Work, and do NOT use infamous "four-letter words", "bird sign", etc.) [ browse best gallery pictures ] Tags: tourismunusual Jackpot: 1st place: $50, 2nd place: $30 , 3rd place: $20 Started: 3/22/2006 6:00:00 AM, Ended: 3/24/2006 6:00:00 AM
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In the first instance it was bloody. Then it was hell. Now, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation -- CBC -- has announced that it is imposing new restrictions on Australia's infamous tourism advertisement. The Australian advert features a listing of some of that country's famous attractions with the tagline "Where the bloody hell are you?" The ad campaign is intended to target people in China, Japan, India, the United States, Germany and Britain. The campaign is a follow up to the smashingly successful "Put another shrimp on the barbie" tourism campaign of the 1980s. That campaign featured singlet-wearing comedian Paul Hogan and lured an estimated 250,000 American tourists to Australia. The CBC maintains that the word "hell" might offend viewers who tune into their televisions during family viewing timeslots. Britain's advertising regulator already has objected to the word "bloody". However, the agency relented when Australia's federal Tourism Minister Fran Bailey flew to Britain to lobby for the original advertisement, including the word "bloody". Nonetheless, on Wednesday CBC spokeswoman Ruth Soles suggested Bailey put in a call to the corporation before packing her bags and embarking on a another lobbying mission. Soles said the CBC advertisement standards people apparently took no exception to the word "bloody" but did object to "hell" in the family program timeslots. The objection has been made by the CBC even though hell was probably part of the common everyday Canadian language, even when speaking around children in that country.
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In the first instance it was bloody. Then it was hell. Now, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation -- CBC -- has announced that it is imposing new restrictions on Australia's infamous tourism advertisement. The Australian advert features a listing of some of that country's famous attractions with the tagline "Where the bloody hell are you?" The ad campaign is intended to target people in China, Japan, India, the United States, Germany and Britain. The campaign is a follow up to the smashingly successful "Put another shrimp on the barbie" tourism campaign of the 1980s. That campaign featured singlet-wearing comedian Paul Hogan and lured an estimated 250,000 American tourists to Australia. The CBC maintains that the word "hell" might offend viewers who tune into their televisions during family viewing timeslots. Britain's advertising regulator already has objected to the word "bloody". However, the agency relented when Australia's federal Tourism Minister Fran Bailey flew to Britain to lobby for the original advertisement, including the word "bloody". Nonetheless, on Wednesday CBC spokeswoman Ruth Soles suggested Bailey put in a call to the corporation before packing her bags and embarking on a another lobbying mission. Soles said the CBC advertisement standards people apparently took no exception to the word "bloody" but did object to "hell" in the family program timeslots. The objection has been made by the CBC even though hell was probably part of the common everyday Canadian language, even when speaking around children in that country. 
