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Mar 2017 LOGS #1: MR GRUMPY’S NZ BIZ FIZZ Air New Zealand has created a cheeky corporate image for itself. Its recent TV campaign in Australia features a wise-cracking Goose praising the comfort of its long-haul aircraft, especially in Business Class where among other things you score a fluffy mattress - presumably stuffed with Goose feathers - for your International flight. It waddles up and down the aisles between the seats as if passengers won’t for a moment be disturbed by a talking goose spruiking the airline. Given the pristine whiteness of the fluffy mattress the Goose has been toilet-trained. Will Aussies give  a Duck for a Goose? The base and humorous tone of these ads was attractive to me – I’m Australian and therefore expected to be a low-level rebel who doesn’t care for management or authority of any kind. This is a most erroneous belief to hang on to at my age. Life has taught me I am not a rebel, I’m only grumpy. I get grumpy or ‘moodily cross’ as the th