Posted on 11/05/2005 9:30:36 PM PST by JTN
LONDON - A poster ad campaign for online casino company Victor Chandler, featuring Rowland Rivron, has attracted a complaint from The Methodist Church, which labelled the ads as irresponsible for linking drinking and gambling.
One poster appeared on the London Underground and another across London Buses with the strapline "See life in a new light". The ads were created by HH&S.
In one execution the comedian Rowland Rivron is seen using a laptop while sat in a bar with a glass of drink in his hand.
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Every casino I've entered, next to gambling, the second most common activity is drinking alcohol.
I thought it was mandatory. The only way you'd ever get me to throw my money down the lottery/casino/gambling hole would be to get me dead drunk first.
Where's Captain Obvious when you need him?
Well, one could do some gambling while sober, but it takes an extra measure of discipline: in the late 80s there was a $100+ million jackpot in Pennsylvania, and the lines to newsstands were so long that one had difficulty buying a paper. So three postdocs and one grad student [me] bought one ticket. For the whole week till the drawing we were addressing one another "my fellow millionaires". One of us did not have a quarter and wanted to chip in thirty cents - so everybody ganged up on him: "your greed is despicable!"; "disgusting!" and so on. I'd say we got more fun than twenty five cents' worth, and having that fun was our only gain from the whole affair.
They forgot smoking. Whenever I go to the local underground poker club, I take a fat Arturo Fuente and order a Crown and Coke.
That's all it is, a dream generator. The last big Powerball had me surfing real estate web sites in Hawaii, because it seemed that $340 million would afford me an oceanfront lifestyle.
Cheaper amusement than a movie, and more informative. It's amazing what $10 million would buy... :)
One does not even use it as a dream machine - one could use it for joke generator.
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