Australia destroys a legend to sell meat

Oh, dear.



Normie Rowe is the Australian old-school rocker whose 1965 cover of Johnny Kidd and the Pirates' "Shakin' All Over" (also covered by The Who, The Guess Who and other, non-who-related, bands) was a huge smash down under. But his career was cut short when he was drafted and sent to Vietnam.

Now the poor washed-up star has been conscripted to murder his biggest hit, with TV chef Curtis Stone, singing new lyrics about Aussie beef, for the Coles supermarket chain.

Poor guy. Poor song. Poor us.

"No added hormoooooones"

via mumbrella

Australian megagrocery spoof campaign says "up yours" to competition regulators

In Australia, there are rumblings that the nation's two largest supermarket chains, Coles and Woolworths, are conspiring to control food prices by pushing out independent competition.

First, some context. This is Coles' current ad campaign (which is disturbing enough when the finger probes that poor kid):



And this is the parody ad, uploaded on YouTube last month:

'Up yours' supermarket parody from whitesecretion on Vimeo.

Nice parody of a pretty annoying campaign. (And the Wiggles.)