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A bunch of New Zealand pizza-peddlers have nixed an animated email ad campaign showing three dead celebs dancing to Halloween evergreen Thriller. The Beeb reports that the sensitive and subtle promotion featured cartoon-corpse representations of Sir Edmund Hillary, the Queen Mother and Batman actor Heath Ledger having a little …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    "Any commentards/spuriousness muscles/Sachsgate etc."

    Fair's fair. You started it.

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  2. Simon Painter

    Under the bootnote...

    "Join El Reg, live and online - 03.12.08"

    Unintentional of course...

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  3. AndyC

    So...

    Do we get to see the ad's in question or do we jusst have to wait until someone gets bored enough to create a new one?

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  4. Smallbrainfield

    Youtube or it's not real

    It sounds a tad insensitive to me.

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  5. Edwin
    Happy

    What is it with pizza peddlers?

    One of the Dutch chains regularly gets flack for their foul language in advertising.

    Admittedly, it's foul ENGLISH language, which (oddly enough) seems perfectly acceptable over here (to my son's great chagrin, 'cause he's 7 and not allowed to say the words the other kids say)

    What about other countries?

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  6. Thomas

    Which is the odd one out?

    Heath Ledger, as he's the only one to have been interviewed by that bastion of good taste known as Jonathan Ross.

    Thank you.

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  7. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    @"Fair's fair. You started it"

    Well, what else do you expect from a "gullible news service" that would "do [their] dirty work for [them] for free"?

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  8. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    had to say it..

    ANNNNCHOVIIIIEEEESSS

    xxxx

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  9. Pascal Monett Silver badge

    extremely poor taste

    You're new to this Internet thing, aren't you ?

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  10. Daniel B.
    Coat

    So...

    are their pizzas Itchy and Tasty?

    Mine's the one with the S.T.A.R.S. badge...

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  11. Tim Brown

    What about the time...

    ...they gave out a soft porn mag with every pizza sold? True. They started getting complaints when one of the delivery guys handed over said mag, complete with nudie pics, to an eleven-year-old. I'm not saying that the kid wasn't already corrupt, but still...

    They do make damn good pizza though.

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  12. Anonymous Coward
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    Sheep Pizza?

    Surely you jest!

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