Jill Jones wrote:
> I don't think so. Most Fosters ads are obnoxious. Were there some especially
> hideous ones made for o/s TV?
Oh yeah, they were really the pits, and all the worse for being one of
the few Australian inputs of any kind we got then. The TV commercial I
remember best because it was the most appalling of the series depicted the
lovable, hilarious Australian male as something akin to a spouse-abuser. I
couldn't believe it, that it was actually being televised, and during a time
when Garth Brooks and other celebs were doing quite a bit to raise public
consciousness about that very--and very serious--problem.
On the other hand, I was pleasantly surprised by how far your TV shows could
push the envelope when I was there in 1999. I saw an episode of a Friday
night show to which my Melbourne friends were addicted--it had a cop/
detective, a lawyer, and another regular character in a related line of
work--2 women and a man. Do you know the show I mean? I couldn't believe my
ears when one of the women asked the other one if she thought about their
male colleague when she "got intimate with herself"--this was like at
9:00pm, still "family viewing time" in these parts! (Australia--America
without the Pilgrim Fathers, eh?)
> Now, I'll just go off to feed the roos in the top paddock and put another
> prawn (sorry, shrimp) on the barbie. See yez round like a rissole, sport.
Yeah, catchya at the black stump--Candice
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