Posts Tagged ‘tui billboard’
Season’s greetings from Tui: remixed
On Monday I blogged about the Christmas Tui billboard and lamented the fact that the tongue-in-cheek description of our priorities for the Christmas season is pretty accurate.
Since then, someone’s thought of a witty comeback to the billboard behind the Ellerslie Squash Club:
(It wasn’t me.)
While I’m not encouraging vandalising property to make a point (Romans 13:1-2), the whole episode’s got a bit of Monty Python-like humour (a la “Life of Brian”) to it – I can just imagine Brian painting all that anti-Roman graffiti!
Have a great day everyone!
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Sign of the times
(UPDATE: Thankfully I’m not the only one who’s feeling a bit aggrieved today.)
Driving to work today, I saw the latest Tui billboard – and I’m a bit angry about it.
I haven’t got a picture of it, but if my memory was correct it read something like this:
(Created using: Interface 7 Tui Billboard)
I’m upset not because of any moral outcry or thought of blasphemous affront. I’m upset because it’s a sorrowful sign of the times, where less and less folk actually understand the reason for Christmas in the first place. And it doesn’t take a theologian to figure out that “Christmas” refers to Jesus Christ.
A couple of other signs of the times:
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Happy holidays Season’s greetings Hello thar Merry Christmas, everyone – can you think of a slogan in response/reply?