Australia's "Spirit Dwarf" Actually Pisses Fox News Off

 

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.