[LINK] weird Optus ad

[Jan Whitaker]

At 09:35 PM 22/07/2007, grove at zeta.org.au wrote:
>The racoons are supposed to be spying on the phone users. What's up 
>with that then?!     Racoons in Australia are thought to be
>sneaky suspicious animals, which is why I guess they are used in the 
>context...

That's not their 'meaning' in the US where they are native. They 
aren't suspicious, they're scanvengers. They are similar to possums 
here, getting into garbage bins, breaking into cabins for food. I 
don't know if Optus would like that 'image' for themselves if they 
had considered that meaning, either!


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