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Risque Tongue billboard complaint upheld in NZ

Submitted by caffeinegoddess on Wed, 01/25/2006 - 20:55.
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New Zealand's ASA has upheld the complaint of shoe retailer Tongue's risque billboard ad, finding it indecent.

This isn't the first time Tongue's ads have brought about complaints to the ASA. In the past, other ads, created by Adworks Ogivly, have also caused raised eyebrows around the island.

Read on to see the "offending" images.

Wording along side the image read: "In a recent survey, 95 per cent of women said they liked tongue ..."

In 2004 this ad went through the complaint wringer:


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Average: 1 (1 vote)
Submitted by Dabitch on Wed, 01/25/2006 - 21:46.

Cripes! crepes! I dunno! Crappers!

Submitted by philmang on Wed, 01/25/2006 - 23:34.

i like the "le coq sportif" logo placement in the first one -- just enough to get it in the frame, and add a little more of that oh so offensive content to the ad :)

Submitted by kidsleepy on Thu, 01/26/2006 - 00:17.

i'm more offended that it is a stupid visual pun.

god please dont' let puns be making a comeback again. please.

Submitted by caffeinegoddess on Thu, 01/26/2006 - 02:14.

Look in Archive. They never left. ;)

Submitted by Dabitch on Thu, 01/26/2006 - 02:17.

aye! I predict a trend for 2006 are visual puns in languages nobody understands! ;P