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We all remember the classic Maxell tape ad from the 80s based on Bob Dylan's 'Don't Look Back' but they are still at it - or I'm getting more mutton by the day.


An ad for 'confused dot com' sung to tune of YMCA sounds - i swear - just like "Ca-an't You Suck C*#k?"


any others? (recent)

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I used to think that while the Kaiser Chiefs were predicting a riot, they actually had a really bad case of Angry Tourettes. They were very shouty, so it seemed apposite.



And what's that Beautiful South song about Rotterdam and some other places? I understood all the men to be gargoyles, dipthonging Irish stout. I thought this meant they pronounced every letter in the word Guinness. Seems not.


I'm getting me some Otex.

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Jeremy Wrote:

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> Surely "me ears are alight" was based on Desmond

> Dekker's "Israelites"?



The song yes - but the video - with the cards etc - was based on the Dylan thing.

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