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Dick's
Toolbox - It must be
the drugs..
The advertisement on the bus shelter outside
the Rialto Building of what I presumed to be an unsavoury backyard
kitchen laboratory for the manufacture of ecstasy or methamphetamines
gave me pause for thought. It reminded me almost simultaneously
of the more memorable student flats of my youth and also of several
Melbourne restaurant kitchens. I also was troubled by the fact that
somebody thought it might be effective.
Did someone in the agency believe that the youth of the land would
see this disturbing image and see the light, throw their mind-altering
pills into the gutter and go to Church the next day?
It seemed unlikely when all the advertisement needed was Elsa Lanchester
as The Bride of Frankenstein to lend authenticity, irony and a pleasing
cultural note . read
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