My country of origin, New Zealand has managed to p*ss Paris Hilton off because she doesn’t get the Kiwi’s sense of humor.
Earth Times reports that Media 5, a Wellington-based advertising company, could be sued as “Paris Hilton’s Los Angeles-based manager has threatened legal action against a New Zealand publicity company that is wooing advertisers to its empty billboards with a photo of the hotel heiress and the word “Vacant” below her face, a newspaper reported Sunday.”
New Zealand doesn’t really have a sue-happy legal culture like America, so this story will be tickling the New Zealand people’s funny bone, no end today adding fuel to joke.
In New Zealand, people just laugh when parodied, grab tickets to the rugby, havve a cold one, take the hit and move forward. This is called entertainment and being a good sport.
So, Hilton’s management team are going about it all wrong. They are missing the Kiwi sense of humor that is alive and well in New Zealand.
For example, New Zealand Prime Minister, John Key described the moment when his wife Bronagh Key and him had the privilege of meeting the statuesque Obama’s as being a moment that made New Zealand’s first couple feel like “a couple of hobbits.” The joke is usually always on Kiwis, no harm intended to Hilton. When a Kiwi disses a person of another culture and country outside of New Zealand, it is one of the best compliments an international star can receive in New Zealand.
This billboard is really a gem, in Paris Hilton’s heiress crown, all the way down under in paradise (New Zealand) if Hilton could take a minute and see the humor.
In New Zealand, Paris Hilton is often perceived as “Airhead America” not an ‘American Heiress Ambassador’ in New Zealand, like she would want all her fans and ’subjects’ to believe and think.
George W. Bush was too from the minute he won a second term in office, so Paris should not feel that she is special on this billboard and be getting her knickers all up in an uptight knot.
Paris is a big star in New Zealand. Hilton still ranks in the Top 20 celebrities searched for in New Zealand on google each year, so she should see this as a backhanded compliment to her fame, which is just “famous for being famous.”
If Hilton’s lawyer is upset about this use of Paris image, wait until the billboard goes up that gives Hilton the Green-Thinking Treatment, that New Zealand is famous for all throughout the world.
The new billboard response to Paris’ uptight lawyers claims will be updated into a double-billboard advertising campaign that says… “Paris Hilton: A Waste of Good Oxygen On The Planet? …. cut to Billboard 2…. or just a Vacant Space?“
Hilton as ‘just a waste of good oxygen’ to explain her sense of entitlement in the world, is a term I have heard at a local New Zealand bar to describe America’s famous blonde heiress.
It was the same term Kiwi’s used to describe George W Bush for 4 years too, to make sense of a crazy American decision to re-elect him into office a second term. All Kiwi’s knew America was in major trouble from that second onwards.
Kiwi’s are very politicly savvy, accepting, forgiving and funny with it, while they wait for a nation to ‘pull their sh*t together’ like America showed recently by a change of government in the last US election.
This is the Kiwi spirit. They just patiently amuse themselves with billboards like this, in the interim. The billboard company was actually kind here in their humor. And again, a huge compliment in New Zealand, who promotes their own celebrities on all billboards, and an American celebrity on rare occasion.
Paris Hilton is just who she is. Love her or hate here, she’s here to stay. So is New Zealand’s sense of humor in Wellington City, New Zealand’s capitol. What a great billboard. Sorry, Paris, like you… it just is!
~posted by Horiwood Hollywood California USA, 11.08.09~
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