Newspaper readers shocked by Canadian ‘penis’ rock cock-up

The overly sensitive readers of the London Independent were apparently scandalised beyond all belief this week when the saw a Canadian holiday advert in the paper.

The observant amongst you will notice the smaller phallic-shaped rock on the right hand side of the full page featured in the paper last week. The Canadian ad otherwise features beautiful blue skies with the tagline 'keep exploring'.

A quick laugh at the penis rock and you're done. But not so for some prudish Independent readers who were flabbergast at such blatant pornography.

One stunned reader middle-class reader, who obviously has nothing better to do to fill up time in his sad life, said: "I couldn’t believe it when I turned the page and saw that vile image in my paper," said Independent reader Rupert Johnson, 67.

"Normally I skip right past the advertisement but I couldn’t miss this one, the first thing I saw was the phallic rock, I nearly spat my coffee everywhere," said the overly excitable old geezer.

The old man continued to rant: "Luckily my grandchildren weren’t with me. If it would’ve been in last week’s paper then they would’ve seen it because they stayed for a few days over half-term. It is not the sort of thing I want them to see."

At least there's finally someone thinking of the children, Reverend Lovejoy's wife will be happy.