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Post by somersetstokie on Jun 6, 2020 11:32:41 GMT
I take it you weren't around for The Bay City Rollers at the Heavy Steam Machine! Or even Bros.
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Post by chuffedstokie on Jun 6, 2020 12:54:02 GMT
"Be the king of the road with this set of Carlos Fandango super wide wheels".
Alternatively you can have a pack of six Panama cigars, the only cigars with six appeal.
The Carlos Fandango chest wig always looked like the real deal.
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Post by elystokie on Jun 6, 2020 13:39:27 GMT
I take it you weren't around for The Bay City Rollers at the Heavy Steam Machine! Or even Bros. Yeah, I was I suppose "quite a while" is very subjective. Bros split up in 1992 according to wiki, nearly 30 years ago
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Post by marylandstoke on Jun 6, 2020 14:54:50 GMT
With a Lolly Gobble Chock Bomb You'll get a big suprise Its a Lyons Maid ice lolly With a bar of choc inside.
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Post by liathroid on Jun 6, 2020 15:09:44 GMT
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Post by liathroid on Jun 6, 2020 15:11:39 GMT
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Post by liathroid on Jun 6, 2020 15:15:07 GMT
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Post by liathroid on Jun 6, 2020 15:18:34 GMT
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Post by werrington on Jun 6, 2020 15:20:37 GMT
Tudor crisps were gorgeous and alternative flavours wise they were well ahead of the rest
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2020 16:04:09 GMT
I was once told that the Homepride flour advert was one of the most successful adverts in UK advertising history. Prior to the advert McDougals dominated flour sales, but the little men in bowler hats advert caused millions of women/housewives to change brands and it blew McDougals away. Note who is speaking on the advert. John Le Mesurier
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Jun 6, 2020 16:11:53 GMT
I always remember the Hi Karate advert👍and the Beer at home means Davenports that’s the beer lots of cheer
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Post by chuffedstokie on Jun 6, 2020 16:36:51 GMT
Fantastic. Terylene is king!.
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Post by somersetstokie on Jun 6, 2020 16:41:58 GMT
A good suit for just under £11! Most decent stuff nowadays sometimes runs into several hundred pounds, (plus accessories).
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Post by danceswithclams on Jun 6, 2020 18:26:33 GMT
Dare I ask if you've been Tangoed?* *This was much later and started the crazy of kids slapping each other around the head. In my day you didn't need and excuse.... Yep, remember the ads well, Clay - a sort-of giant orange Buddha figure in a loincloth running round suddenly smacking people. I'm sure the ads had to be banned in the end and folks/kids told not to do it under any circs because so many people were getting quite badly injured and literally having their hearing damaged from having been hit round the sides of the head so hard and so often. I was never Tangoed, otherwise I'd have ripped their bl**dy liver out. Rather inexplicably voiced by Ray Wilkins, Hugh Dennis, and Gil Scott-Heron, advertising trivia fans.
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Post by Linx on Jun 6, 2020 20:39:24 GMT
It will be interesting to see a similar thread to this in twenty or thirty years time. Everyone reminiscing about ads for condoms, tampons, panty pads, vaginal thrush treatments and erectile dysfunction cures. No snappy slogans, just lots of confused kids who wonder what that purple or blue liquid is.
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Post by mrcoke on Jun 6, 2020 20:59:14 GMT
The Cinzano went where I would like to go in what is surely one of the greatest adverts of all time.
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Post by chuffedstokie on Jun 6, 2020 21:38:35 GMT
It will be interesting to see a similar thread to this in twenty or thirty years time. Everyone reminiscing about ads for condoms, tampons, panty pads, vaginal thrush treatments and erectile dysfunction cures. No snappy slogans, just lots of confused kids who wonder what that purple or blue liquid is. All those little important things that your parents used to tell you about!.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2020 7:35:22 GMT
The Cinzano went where I would like to go in what is surely one of the greatest adverts of all time. I've seen these but never quite got the joke. Why is he always trying to spill it ?
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Post by murphthesurf on Jun 7, 2020 11:49:29 GMT
Tudor crisps were gorgeous and alternative flavours wise they were well ahead of the rest Oh, that's suddenly reminded me --- does anyone remember a (previously unknown) model called Patti Boyd who started advertising Smiths crisps and doing it with a lisp? (That's why I'm sure it was Smiths.) She used to giggle, take a crithp out of a bag and say 'Thmithth Crithpth'. What a pillock. However........ two minutes later she met & married George Harrison & then they eventually divorced & she married Eric Clapton. That's all from memory, but I think it was Eric Clapton. And yes, her ears were quite a bit smaller than Lineker's, before you ask.
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Post by werrington on Jun 7, 2020 11:54:40 GMT
Tudor crisps were gorgeous and alternative flavours wise they were well ahead of the rest Oh, that's suddenly reminded me --- does anyone remember a (previously unknown) model called Patti Boyd who started advertising Smiths crisps and doing it with a lisp? (That's why I'm sure it was Smiths.) She used to giggle, take a crithp out of a bag and say 'Thmithth Crithpth'. What a pillock. However........ two minutes later she met & married George Harrison & then they eventually divorced & she married Eric Clapton. That's all from memory, but I think it was Eric Clapton. And yes, her ears were quite a bit smaller than Lineker's, before you ask. I’m totally lost reading that 😁
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Post by marylandstoke on Jun 7, 2020 12:38:27 GMT
I had a funny feeling in my tummy when that rabbit come on. Years later I would feel the same about Jessica Rabbit.
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Post by Linx on Jun 7, 2020 12:53:26 GMT
The Cinzano went where I would like to go in what is surely one of the greatest adverts of all time. I've seen these but never quite got the joke. Why is he always trying to spill it ? I think the joke is that he always tries to appear sophisticated and urbane but he’s actually just a hamfisted klutz (as the Americans would say). British humour likes nowt better than seeing pomposity being pricked.
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Post by marylandstoke on Jun 7, 2020 13:37:55 GMT
Oh, that's suddenly reminded me --- does anyone remember a (previously unknown) model called Patti Boyd who started advertising Smiths crisps and doing it with a lisp? (That's why I'm sure it was Smiths.) She used to giggle, take a crithp out of a bag and say 'Thmithth Crithpth'. What a pillock. However........ two minutes later she met & married George Harrison & then they eventually divorced & she married Eric Clapton. That's all from memory, but I think it was Eric Clapton. And yes, her ears were quite a bit smaller than Lineker's, before you ask. I’m totally lost reading that 😁 Long story short Wesser, if you were a rock God of a certain age and stature you could probably have a go. If you were only B list there was always her sister! Many, many songs were written with her as the muse. Something in the way she moves, Layla, Wonderful Tonight, Beer and Chips and Sex and Gravy (citation may be required for the last one) Anyhoo....
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Post by marylandstoke on Jun 7, 2020 13:39:37 GMT
And who remembers Hamburger crisps? Attachments:
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Post by Linx on Jun 7, 2020 16:48:53 GMT
When you were a kid in the build up to Christmas, the adverts were always the best thing on telly.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2020 18:10:57 GMT
When you were a kid in the build up to Christmas, the adverts were always the best thing on telly. Does anyone remember Big Trak adverts? Always on at Xmas obviously. Even the advert was boring, was like a big truck you could tap in a code and it drove itself, the ad had a kid delivering an apple to his Dad then firing a lame laser sound at his dog. Never quite could understand who would want it , was quite pricey for the time I remember.
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Post by Linx on Jun 7, 2020 18:28:52 GMT
When you were a kid in the build up to Christmas, the adverts were always the best thing on telly. Does anyone remember Big Trak adverts? Always on at Xmas obviously. Even the advert was boring, was like a big truck you could tap in a code and it drove itself, the ad had a kid delivering an apple to his Dad then firing a lame laser sound at his dog. Never quite could understand who would want it , was quite pricey for the time I remember. I seem to remember the same Kerplunk advert being recycled every year. And Rockin’ Robots. Funny thing is, I don’t think I ever got any of those games for Christmas, so the adverts obviously didn’t work.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2020 18:35:54 GMT
Does anyone remember Big Trak adverts? Always on at Xmas obviously. Even the advert was boring, was like a big truck you could tap in a code and it drove itself, the ad had a kid delivering an apple to his Dad then firing a lame laser sound at his dog. Never quite could understand who would want it , was quite pricey for the time I remember. I seem to remember the same Kerplunk advert being recycled every year. And Rockin’ Robots. Funny thing is, I don’t think I ever got any of those games for Christmas, so the adverts obviously didn’t work. Found it. Sure was a dog in it but never mind. Ker-Plunk and Mouse Trap just never appealed
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Post by chuffedstokie on Jun 7, 2020 19:59:07 GMT
When you were a kid in the build up to Christmas, the adverts were always the best thing on telly. In the run up to Christmas it wouldn't be the same without a the regular Saturday trip to Hanley and spending as much time as possible in Bratt and Dykes toy dept playing their demo Raving Bonkers game in the hope of finding one under the tree. Never happened.
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Post by Linx on Jun 7, 2020 20:19:04 GMT
When you were a kid in the build up to Christmas, the adverts were always the best thing on telly. In the run up to Christmas it wouldn't be the same without a the regular Saturday trip to Hanley and spending as much time as possible in Bratt and Dykes toy dept playing their demo Raving Bonkers game in the hope of finding one under the tree. Never happened. Bratt and Dykes - now that’s a blast from the past (unless they’re still going, I wouldn’t know). And Brookfields.
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