British Farmer Gets Wild and Woolly With Ads on Sheep

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It's shaping up to be a banner year for sheep in advertising. They've been shielded by Steven Seagal and embraced by Ron Jeremy. (It's tough to say which scenario was more disturbing.) Now, some farmer in England, blocked from placing billboards on a nearby highway, is touting his topsoil business by stenciling logos on a flock of sheep. "We just thought it would be different," the farmer says. Actually, a Dutch online travel firm did something similar a few years back.

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