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breeze Sun 17-Jul-16 16:05:36

Just had our usual 'raucous' sunday family lunch. We got onto the subject of advertisements. I sang 'Opal Fruits, made to make your mouth water' (then the rest of it, lemon, lime, orange..... ) and 'Sorry mate, you're too late, the best peas went to Farrows'! My son sang the washing machine Calgon ad! We were in stitches remembering all the ads we grew up with. Any others?

fiorentina51 Sun 17-Jul-16 16:10:48

Don't forget the fruit gums mum..

Now hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face. With mild green Fairy liquid.

Jane10 Sun 17-Jul-16 16:14:49

Bum bum bum esso blue!

A million housewives every day pick up a can of beans and say , beanz means Heinz!

gettingonabit Sun 17-Jul-16 16:20:15

"Do the Shake 'nVac and get the Freshness Back"...cue raucous singing and dancing around the Hoover.

"A Mars a Day helps you Work, Rest and Play"..

I still love the Smash one with the falling-about-laughing aliens:

"They boil them for 20 of their minutes and they smash them all to bits"
"They are clearly a most primitive people ha ha".

And Hamlet cigars with Gregor Fisher's dodgy comb over and Air on a G String playing in the background...

breeze Sun 17-Jul-16 16:23:50

What a trip down memory lane! Keep 'em coming.

pensionpat Sun 17-Jul-16 16:31:43

The very first ad was

You'll wonder where the yellow went, when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent.

Charleygirl Sun 17-Jul-16 16:52:42

You will feel a little lovelier each day with fabulous pink Camay.

harrigran Sun 17-Jul-16 17:03:26

A finger of fudge is just enough....Cadbury's advert.

AlieOxon Sun 17-Jul-16 17:34:38

Birds eye waffles - waffly versatile!

Falconbird Sun 17-Jul-16 17:35:05

My son then aged about 7 always refused a finger of fudge. In later years he told me that he thought the ad said,

"It's full of peppery goodness," not Cadbury goodness. smile

Cherrytree59 Sun 17-Jul-16 17:48:07

She flies like a bird in the sky
Nimble ad

The Red car and The Blue car had a race
Milky way

Flash cleans baths with-out scratching

Katek Sun 17-Jul-16 18:01:53

"The Esso sign means happy motoring"

"Keep going well, keep going Shell"

"Put a tiger in your tank"

Joan Collins/Leonard Rossiter in the Martini sds!

hildajenniJ Sun 17-Jul-16 18:08:49

"One thousand and one cleans a big, big carpet, for less than half a crown."

"Go to work on an egg."

The Ajax "white tornado" ad.

What a trip down memory lane. smile

Falconbird Sun 17-Jul-16 18:19:09

My husband came home from school one day wearing his cricket whites and some of the neighbours rushed out thinking he was The White Tide Man.

FarNorth Sun 17-Jul-16 18:51:46

Nuts, whole hazelnuts. Cadburys take them and they cover them in chocolate.

jillyco Sun 17-Jul-16 18:59:15

Murray mints, Murray mints
Too good to hurry mints.
Why make haste, when you can taste
The hint of mint in Murray Mints?

annodomini Sun 17-Jul-16 19:11:46

Fry's Turkish Delight
Full of Eastern Promise

Harp stays sharp
To the bottom of the glass

Pandi Sun 17-Jul-16 19:19:08

It has been a lovely sunny day and became the day I joined gransnet. Thanks for these old ads that have made me smile.

KatyK Sun 17-Jul-16 20:03:49

Go to work on an egg

Those Birds Eye chicken pie adverts with June Whitfield.

Beattie in the BT adds

annodomini Sun 17-Jul-16 20:05:05

Welcome,*Pandi*. Hope you feel right at home here. sunshine

granjura Sun 17-Jul-16 20:39:48

The downstairs toilet is very old- and I've covered it with old postcards of old ads- love them. One of them dates from my first 6 months in the UK, working for Beecham's - and it of a little girl with a doggie pulling her pants down, showing whiter 'cheeks' than the rest of her body with the caption 'don't be a pale face' for Coppertone suntan lotion.

Often makes me smile and think this advert just wouldn't be allowed anymore.

grannylyn65 Sun 17-Jul-16 20:44:08

Prudebce potts the pan inspector
Prudence the spot dector!!
Brillo !!!

FlorenceN Sun 17-Jul-16 20:45:46

Hadrian Hadrian
The deep gloss paint
-----use Hadrian!

Granny2016 Sun 17-Jul-16 21:13:50

We are the Ovalteeny happy girls and boys,
at work or play we,re more than keen,we,re the merriest children ever seen,
because we all drink OVALTINE,we,re happy girls and boys.

Think I may have missed a bit!

Only the crumbliest,flakiest chocolate,tastes like chocolate never tasted before.
(girl in the cornfield)

Grannyben Sun 17-Jul-16 21:45:17

I can always remember on a Christmas day afternoon the advert used to come on for hoseasons.
Now is the time to send us a line for your hoseasons boating brochure.
We've got all kinds of crafts which will suit you just fine, for messing about on the water.