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char1ie Wrote:

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> I am in tears with laughter after watching this

> again after all these years. Classic of all

> classics of TV advertising.

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> Charlie


Unfortunately Charlie PeckhamGateCrasher beat you to it! Woz really funny though and well worth another watch

Mine was for a timber wholesaler in Letchworth, shown at the old fashioned Broadway cinema.

It had none other than Scruffy McGuffy in it, and we all felt a surge of pride everytime we saw such a famous and important chap starring in a local ad.


ps loving the WATN for Claire Scott, a girl who single handedly left me with a pyschologically damaging attraction to terrible peroxide perms for many years:

"After leaving Grange Hill in 1985, Paula continued acting, making appearances in TV series like ?Spender? and various British films. In 1988, Paula caused a stir by appearing topless for a special photo shoot in Mayfair magazine. Paula continued to act into the early 1990s, but is now rumoured to be married with children and working in a shoe shop."

My favourite ads are the ones they used to do (alas no more) for Benson & Hedges and Silk Cut.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/475000/images/_476117_150benson.jpg


http://www.users.totalise.co.uk/~kbroom/handouts/Metaphor%20and%20Metonym_files/image002.gif


I was fascinated by the ads when I was a kid ... which I guess is why I took up smoking!

barrymarshall Wrote:

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> I usually hate TV advertising and will change

> channels when they come on, so I don't remember

> many. However, this one, with the lines from Moby

> Dick, is a classic.


Indeed.. (*trivia alert*) a commercial directed by one of the few ad directors who have gone on to make a half-decent feature film - Sexy Beast.

They're all wannabee film directors at heart..

My favourite ads are the ones they used to do (alas no more) for Benson & Hedges and Silk Cut.


I thought the B&H ads were a cut above, especially the one with a tin of fish with the 'gold' lid turned back that would frequently be seen on hoardings. One wag scribed on it in large letters 'SARDINES GIVE YOU CANCER'

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