It's Those Freakin' Sheep Again...
Sheep are being cynically fleeced by Lake District tourist bosses in a callous move to garner pre-Christmas headlines and promote the area we can reveal.
Posted: 29 November 2005
by Jon
Those whacky folk at the Cumbria Tourist Board are at it again.
Not content with their Crazy Frog bashing 'Baarmy Sheep' ring tone,
they've now launched their own ovine version of Jingle Bells to rival
the froggy Christmas single released later this week.
It's clearly a shameless attempt to manipulate the meeja by
churning out press releases groaning with the sheer weight of
dreadful puns and, fercrissakes, embargoed till tomorrow. Well, we're
having none of it, especially as the 'song' and accompanying movie
are already available on the GoLakes web site.
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You can't beat a pretty
sheep dressed up wth some nice tinsel and the odd bauble
or so they say in the Lakes, allegedly...
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It's bloody awful really. No, honestly it is. And to make things
worse, there's also - and we're not sure what this means - Baarmy
Sheep Christmas megamix featuring their rendition of Good King
Wenceslas, Hark The Herald Angels Sing and While Shepherds Watch
Their Flocks By Night…
Eric Robson, chairman of Cumbria Tourist Board, allegedly said:
"Christmas may be the season of goodwill to all men - but not
Crazy Frog's!
"Visitors from all over the world love the Lake District and
our sheep, so we're confident people will prefer our version."
"Who knows, a break in Cumbria - the Lake District might be
the only place to escape the Crazy Frog and the stress of Christmas
this year!"
So there you go. Masochists can point their browsers at www.golakes.co.uk
You know, it almost makes you long nostalgically for the Crazy Frog.
Not that that's going to last...
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