T conductors in Boston get fishy ads pulled

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Boston maintains its perfect record for reacting to ad campaings with humorlessness as the MBTA prepares to remove Legal Sea Foods’ “Fresh Fish” subway ads that poked fun at drivers on the Green Line. (The “fresh” quips include “This conductor has a face like a halibut.”) Stephan MacDougall, president of the Boston Carmen’s Union, tells the Boston Globe that he fielded 40 phone calls from Green Line workers incensed by the ads: “To say they are angered and offended is to put it lightly.

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