Revising National's new billboards is proving a
popular pastime in the blogosphere. A Scoop reader kicked
off the fun yesterday with a group of eight amended versions, they
have proved popular and are the top rating item on
Scoop.co.nz today. A quick look in the referrer logs has now
uncovered three more alternate versions of the billboards.
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