Two Thumbs Up!
Visit Australia has an ad out, which Tim Blair reports has debuted to mixed reviews. I think it’s fantastic.
So Where The Bloody Hell Are You?
And I am speaking as one of the dumb Americans that doesn’t know what a Verdi is. Somehow, I’ve managed to get past that. Amazing, isn’t it? The way one little thing doesn’t cause me, a dumb American, to freeze in confusion and stand, slack-jawed, incapable of knowing how to process the rest of the commercial?
February 25th, 2006 at 3:23 am
I suspect that the Verdi is referring to Guiseppe. Would therefore seem to be a bit of a mixed message, but since I haven’t seen the advert (bloody slow connection) I couldn’t say for certain. Only prob: we’re a bloody long way from anywhere.
February 25th, 2006 at 9:17 am
Seriously! Why the bloody hell doesn’t the government subsidize my airfare?!
…Guiseppe?
February 25th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Guiseppe Verdi, the great opera composer (I can take it or leave it). “Turn up the Verdi”, means turn up the radio on which some Verdi is playing. I guess.
February 25th, 2006 at 11:44 pm
You ought to leave a comment on that blog that the ad REALLY is a failure because YOU don’t even know what it’s on about and you’re AUSTRALIAN! Which means, of course, that her blog is a failure too.
February 26th, 2006 at 12:47 am
Yeh, well, no one here had ever heard the phrase “Put another shrimp on the barbie” until those wretched Paul Hogan ads started appearing. We call those things “prawns”.
February 26th, 2006 at 1:41 pm
Maybe when you’re rescuing American blondes from crocodiles, “shrimp” is easier to remember.
February 27th, 2006 at 2:25 am
Don’t worry, there’ll be any number of visitors next summer to watch England retain the Ashes. Beating the Aussies at anything always pulls a crowd.
February 27th, 2006 at 10:45 am
Shame they didn’t include that in their ad.