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April 24th, 2009 at 9:50 am by David FarrarJohn Drinnan in the Herald looks at the Powershop advertising on Scoop and Public Address and Kiwiblog.
People may be amused to know that originally they wanted all three of us to be photoshopped as “Che Guevara“. I said that I didn’t think me dressing up as a left wing torturing and executing revolutionary leader would go down too well here, so they made me Uncle Sam instead 
April 24th, 2009 at 10:05 am
I’m surprised no-one suggested Kitchener … I’d have thought that would be better known than the Uncle Sam knock-off in New Zealand.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Kitchener_Wants_You
Vote:April 24th, 2009 at 10:12 am
You could have been done up as that mass murder Kissinger instead. Or that great torturer of modern times, Rumsfeld.
Vote:April 24th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Always knew you’d be more comfortable dressing up as a right wing torturing and executing counter revolutionary leader.
Vote:April 24th, 2009 at 10:32 am
Interesting – I thought Ari said they weren’t going to be using mass murdering revolutionaries in their marketing anymore.
http://blog.powershop.co.nz/?p=41#comment-76
Vote:April 24th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Uncle Sam’s a good choice DTF.
It looks especially appropriate on the eve of Anzac Day, when we should spare a thought for the US Navy carrier dive-bomber pilots who saved NZ from Japanese occupation when they sank the Japanese prize carriers at Midway. Also the US marines who died in the long wade onto the island (Tarawera?) where the Imperial Japanese earlier beheaded young NZ coastwatchers, and the young GI’s who completed their basic training with live warfare in the jungle of Papua New Guinea. A lot of these young Americans never went home.
Vote:April 24th, 2009 at 10:57 am
“I said that I didn’t think me dressing up as a left wing torturing and executing revolutionary leader would go down too well here”
Well said, the left need to be reminded more often of their legacy of destruction death imprisonment and slavery and just what inhuman swines their heroes really were. You should have asked the stooges who wanted to dress you as Guevara if they had any Thomas Jefferson outfits.
I can imagine the reaction-
“Who?”
“Who the hell was Thomas Jefferson??”
“Does he look good in a beret??”
Vote:April 24th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Actually DPF I would have thought Churchill would have suited you to a tee…
Vote:April 24th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Oh dear oh dear oh dear.
Vote:April 24th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
holy paid touts..!..batman..!
http://whoar.co.nz/2009/whoarrussel-brown-and-david-farrar-become-paid-touts-for-a-power-companyand-get-thisbrown-dresses-up-as-che-guevaraewand-farrar-dresses-up-as-uncle-samdouble-ew/
phil(whoar.co.nz)
so..no meridian price-gouging stories/exposes from farrar or brown for the forseeable future..
eh..?
Vote:April 24th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
i guess farrar and brown will have to be called ‘commentators’ only in inverted commas..
and what’s next for this dynamic marketing duo..?
are mcdonalds asking you to ‘do lunch’ yet..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:April 24th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
and do you and brown do your dress-ups for parties etc..?
brown as che guevara..eh..?
i am kinda speechless..
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:April 24th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
“batman..!”
You called.
“are mcdonalds asking you to ‘do lunch’ yet..?”
Do they sell cannabis burgers and tinny fries at MacDonalds now phool?
Vote:April 24th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
I couldn’t possibly comment… oh hang on, I did in today’s Aardvark
Vote:April 26th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
basically dpf..
..you and brown both jumped the shark..
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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