We May Not Be Able To Project Military Power, But Our Ad Copy Will Make You Surrender!
First the gun, then the tank, nuclear weapons, and now … Google ads? The AP reports:
Canada and Denmark have taken their diplomatic tussle over a lump of Arctic rocks to the Internet with competing Google ads claiming sovereignty over Hans Island.
… The diplomatic debate began Monday when Denmark said it would send a letter of protest over a visit to the 1/2-square-mile Hans Island last week by Canadian Defense Minister Bill Graham.
… Toronto resident Rick Broadhead googled the matter and found an ad that touted Hans Island as Danish. “Does Hans sound Canadian? Danish name, Danish island.”
Internet users clicking on the ad were directed to the Danish Foreign Ministry’s Web site.
You can hear the conversation at the Canadian Forces Directorate of Counter-Advertising:
“Pierre! The Danes are buying space on the Labatt’s site! Institute countermeasure plan 3-C!”
“Mon dieu! Too late! They have hardened the target. We are blocked from their silly little pastry sites!”
“We need to pick new targets — Saab … no, Swedish … Nokia … no, Finnish … has anyone heard of a Danish company?”
“It’s too late! They’re running banner ads on the Maple Leafs site! There’s too many! They’re coming too fast! Aagh!”
“Hold it together, man! We took Juno beach on D-Day! We can save Hans Island from the Danes!”
“Sir! If we click on their ads, it’ll cost them at least five cents each time! We can break their entire economy!”
“Put out the word and click, Pierre! Click as fast as you can!”
Unfortunately, Pierre then had to wait six months to see a doctor about his carpal tunnel syndrome.
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Update 3 (August 4): Hans Island Update: Danish Expeditionary Force Sets Sail
Update 2 (August 1): Canada Grants Citizenship to Hans Island’s Rocks; ‘We Welcome Our 13,925,638 New Granite-Canadian Countrymen,” says Prime Minister
Update 1 (July 31): Weekend Edition: Battle For Hans Island Spreads from Google to Blogosphere: CRISIS in the ARCTIC!
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July 29th, 2005 at 12:53 am
If the French were involved, they would have surrendered already.
July 29th, 2005 at 1:43 am
Sure, THEY would be sensible enough to realised that ‘ans’ is a lost cause.
July 29th, 2005 at 2:14 am
Dear Senior Administrative Officer
How can the Canadian Forces Directorate of Counter-Advertising expect to win a war when they are absolutely ignorant of technology? At Google ADWords you “Set your budget” and “You have total control over every aspect of your campaign.” (https://adwords.google.com/select/Login?hl=en_US).
I’ll suggest the Directorate by LEGO Building Blocks, that might educate them.
(http://www.lego.com/eng/)
July 29th, 2005 at 2:18 am
canada go f**k yourself
July 29th, 2005 at 3:53 am
You said it Robbin!
July 29th, 2005 at 7:02 am
>“We need to pick new targets — Saab … no, Swedish … Nokia … no, Finnish … has anyone heard of a Danish company?”
Well, you probably have heard about LEGO (Toy company), MAERSK (World largest shipping company), ISS (World largest cleaning company), CARLSBERG (One of the world largest beer companies).
Or do live in a cave??
By the way - of cause Hans Island is Danish - how come you think its Canadian?? It’s named after a Dane.
July 29th, 2005 at 7:14 am
>Or do live in a cave??
No they have not yet advanced to that level yet.
They are stilling trying to figure out why they can’t build igloos during the summer.
July 29th, 2005 at 8:30 am
Youth in Canada. Centrism in Canada måtte jo så også lige have en bemærkning. Det provokerede mig jo, at han ikke kender forskel på Islad og Færøerne *rofl* Den sidste kommentar med citat og henvisning Independent Sources indlæg i debatten : We May Not Be Able To Project Military Power, But Our Ad Copy Will Make You Surrender! fik mig nærmest til at falde ned af stolen af grin. Om ikke andet, så var den nattesøvnin værd *G* « Hide it
July 29th, 2005 at 4:09 pm
Denmark can go to hell! F**k you, you pastry eating pieces of s**t. Your country is s**t and that island dosen’t deserve to belong to you. You pussies talk a lot of s**t, but I don’t see you guys planting a big gay Dannish flag on Hans. It must be because you know it’s a battle you can’t win. The Canadian government announced it will be investing billions into millitary excercies in the arctic in the upcoming years. So if you want to try and take, by all means give it a try. I’d join the army just to go and help. In closing, I just like to say GO F**K YOURSELF DENMARK!
p.s.
Robbin, Eat shit you Dannish whore.
July 29th, 2005 at 11:45 pm
Brilliant. People have been talking about cyber-warfare for years, but no one ever imagined it would turn out quite like this.
July 30th, 2005 at 12:26 am
Hey Torben
Just a thought: if “America” was named after Amerigo Vespucci who was Italian - does that mean that the entire American continent belongs to Italy?
July 30th, 2005 at 3:47 am
Hey Mark, you f**king Canuck bastard, it’s spelled “Danish”, but I honestly wouldn’t expect people who speak a bastardization of English to know any better, though.
However, the Royal Danish Navy IS in fact sending a ship equipped with Icebeakers (you know, the stuff that your joke of a navy doesn’t have) to reclaim the island.
And what’s this talk about a battle we can’t win? You have four times as many people as us yet your standing army is laughable, last I heard you bought a sub from England which you somehow managed to break before it reached Canada… Fighting you will be a walk in the park, f**king Canuck.
July 30th, 2005 at 4:19 am
Oh and Mark, if we are ‘pastry eating blablabla’. Would you be burger munching obese half Americans then? If you’re anything like your fat North American brothers, albeit without the military strenght, then we Scandinavians will have an even easier time making you run away with your tail between your legs. LOL
July 30th, 2005 at 4:28 am
BTW. What does Canada have that can rival MAERSK, the biggest shipping company in the world, since you think you can make fun of lack of known companies, I wonder? I for one, have never heard of anything good coming out of Canada.
July 30th, 2005 at 7:54 am
To Dane
The Bombardier jets, capable of operating in the cold regions, which your navy and army are based on are MADE IN CANADA, dude wake up.
July 30th, 2005 at 8:36 am
Make some sense and try to show how that silly post was even remotely releveant to what I said, and perhaps I’ll try to NOT laugh at you.
And some proof please.
July 30th, 2005 at 1:34 pm
Is there oil at this Hans Island place? I smell an imminent threat to the United States …
July 30th, 2005 at 1:42 pm
Strangely, this post, the #1 Technorati link for “Hans Island” for the last two days, is not getting any Google AdSense traffic from the Canadians or the Danes! The Directorate of Counter-Advertising must be doing their jobs!
July 30th, 2005 at 4:45 pm
Note to our Danish Readers: What does this mean?
Den sidste kommentar med citat og henvisning Independent Sources indlæg i debatten: We May Not Be Able To Project Military Power, But Our Ad Copy Will Make You Surrender! fik mig nærmest til at falde ned af stolen af grin. Om ikke andet, så var den nattesøvnin værd *G*
It was posted at: Bubbling Minds: http://net.cvusonderjylland.dk/bubblingminds/index.php?p=618
Thanks.
July 30th, 2005 at 10:08 pm
Here is a look at Danish and Canadian forces in the high Arctic. Turns out Canuckistan is right; the Danes use Canadian-made patrol aircraft. But they also have a year-round presence that Canada does not.