[news] WIZKIDS OF OZ

[Gordon Flett]

SchNEWS 396, Friday 14th March, 2003

WIZKIDS OF OZ

The Australian Department of Defence has decided to withdraw advertising
from all student media in Australia because of an "adbust" by a student
newspaper. The Defence Department had been repeatedly requesting
advertising space in the magazine, who kept on saying no and got a bit
tired of repeating themselves and decided to run the following ad
instead:

"Why settle for an ordinary office job when you could have an
extraordinary and challenging career as a pawn in the power games of
politicians? Not only will you get to take orders from arrogant pricks
with buzz-cuts and ego-complexes, but on special occasions you'll get
the chance to repress your moral integrity and accept orders to bomb the
shit out of dark-skinned, tea-towel-wearing foreigners. Officer
positions are open in many specialised fields from engineering and
logistics through to carpet-bombing and cannon fodder. You will receive
over $44,700 per annum upon completion of initial training, which
should just about cover treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and
Gulf War Syndrome..."

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