We don't like the D-word either, but that's what one Australian bar has been using as a promotional mascot: a so-called "Spirit Dwarf." Fox News, of all people, has the story:
An Australian bar
promotion involving a bare-chested, top hat-wearing little person
walking the length of a bar pouring free booze down the throats of
patrons has drawn protests from alcohol education campaigners.
The
Jagermeister "Spirit Dwarf" promotion has been on one night a week at
The Saint in St. Kilda, Melbourne, the Port Phillip Leader reported.
Jagermeister distanced itself from the promotion, which follows the Federal Government's campaign to clamp down on binge-drinking.
To which we can only add these lines, straight from the script for "Living in Oblivion," pictured above:
TITO
Why does it have to be a dwarf?
NICK
What?
TITO
Why does my character have to be a
dwarf?
NICK
He doesn't have to be a dwarf.
TITO
Then why is he?! Is that the only
way you can make this a dream; put a
dwarf in it?
NICK
No, Tito; that's not --
TITO
Have you ever had a dream with a
dwarf in it?! Do you know anyone
who's had a dream with a dwarf in
it? NO! I don't even have dreams
with dwarves in them! The only place
I've seen dwarves in dreams is in
stupid movies like this! Make it
weird; put a dwarf in it. Everyone
will go "whoa whoa whoa, must be a
dream, there's a fucking dwarf in
it!" Well, I'm sick of it. You can
take this Dream Sequence and shove
it up your ass!
Via Fox News.
