By ANA SAMWAYS
Sky Digital's Christian channel Shine TV reminds Auckland heathens of the real meaning of Christmas with its new billboard campaign ... this one was spotted on Upper Queen St.
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Vote Henman: After England beat France at the semifinals of the Rugby World Cup, the Sydney Morning Herald ran a poll to see if the public thought the game was dull or scintillating.
England fans got wind of this, and 40,000 of them banded together to rig the vote.
Now, the Australian fans have a chance for sweet revenge. Jonny Wilkinson is the red-hot favourite to win this year's BBC sports Personality of the Year award. The voting is online at the BBC's website, and it seems Australian voters are pushing tennis player Tim Henman up the rankings.
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Mark Robertshaw of Mt Eden writes: "Another example of ratepayer-funded futility - road sweeper trucks patrolling residential streets early on weekday mornings when most houses still have cars parked on the road in front. The truck spends most of its time sweeping the centre of the road, with the occasional swerve to the kerb (where the leaves and litter are). Starting an hour or so later would be far more effective. What really bugged me this morning was that Winston's leaflet was just delivered to our street, so there was a lot of rubbish in the gutter."
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A new low in advertising: A poster in the Glenfield Mall men's toilets for the AJ Hackett harbour bridge bungy-jump kicks off "Fancy a big dump?"
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A reader writes: "A Lion Breweries billboard at a liquor outlet on the corner of Manukau Rd and Greenlane West carries the caption, 'Always offer a range of non-alcoholic drinks' above a picture of a water faucet with hot and cold taps. As that other liquor advertising agency might say, 'Yeah, right'.
"So the beer barons sanctimoniously endorse the idea of the 'responsible host' and then, with a nod and a wink, send exactly the opposite message to the liquor-buying public.
"Think about this next time you hear the liquor industry issuing its periodic straight-faced condemnations of drink-driving, under-age drinking and such 'abuses' of alcohol."
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