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Urmstongran Sun 24-Mar-19 19:04:20

“Cleans a big big carpet
For less than half a crown!” ?

Why is it some adverts stick in our minds over so many years? I can even hear the tune!

Any more ‘old ‘uns’ that we can still remember?

JackyB Sun 24-Mar-19 23:38:50

NUTS!! Whole hazelnuts! Cadbury's take them and they cover them in chocolate.

They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil.

Trebor mints are a minty bit stronger (which we used to complete with "Stick 'em in your ear and they'll last a bit longer")

GrandmainOz Mon 25-Mar-19 01:03:12

Ho ho ho! Green Giant!

Coolgran65 Mon 25-Mar-19 02:46:14

Don't forget the ....fruit gums mum.

Bet you can't eat just one .... Fruit pastilles.

grannyqueenie Mon 25-Mar-19 03:58:13

Thanks everyone, what a perfect thread for a sleepless night

You’ll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent!

The man from Del Monte...he say yes!

chewbacca Cyril Lord Carpets and sheets from Brentford Nylons, a lethal 60’s combination!

grannyqueenie Mon 25-Mar-19 03:59:30

Oh and a Cadburys flake was “sixpence worth of heaven”

BradfordLass72 Mon 25-Mar-19 04:28:30

This is probably the last advert I ever saw as I left England for New Zealand.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mq59ykPnAE

But I'll never forget Katie and Phillip

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdPqr_Fjb6g

And one from NZ. In a masterpiece of emotional manipulation, Toyota gave us our own familiar icons and managed thereby to sell us their Japanese cars grin

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs0IfPxvHmU

BradfordLass72 Mon 25-Mar-19 05:30:35

Seeing as you are all in bed and I'm here alone at the end of the world. I've had time to remember.

Ready Brek, a dear wee boy said, 'Aye, it's delicious but it's no how you make porridge!' He was right too.

Fred and his Homepride team
The Esso droplets
Go to Work on an Egg. "Look for the little lion!"

A beautician telling a lady she had her fingers in Palmolive, 'You're soaking in it!" and 'For hands that do dishes can be soft as your face (my children always substituted "your head") with mild, green Fairy Liquid.

And what was the product when someone asked, 'Does she, or doesn't she?' Hair colour I think.

♩ ♪ Carling Black Label ♫ ♬
Heineken refreshes the parts other beers cannot reach.
Victor Borge narrating:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab6dJYDgj48

And one I only ever saw at the cinema and which now makes me cringe.
Kia Ora
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7vDjEv4KfQ

Jolly Green Giant
Milk's gotta lotta bottle

In the early days, we got a lot of UK ads here until someone realised that using our culture would sell more.

Bathsheba Mon 25-Mar-19 07:12:26

Cyril Lord - gosh that brought back memories. Horrible stuff!!! It was called Enkalon.
“Wash it and the colour stays bright, squash it and it just springs back. Give it the treatment, the family treatment. Enkalon is built to last for years and years and years and years. This is luxury you can afford by Cyril Lord.”
Now I’ll be singing that in my head on replay all day ??

ginny Mon 25-Mar-19 07:49:49

Buy some for Lulu. ( Smarties)

Gagagran Mon 25-Mar-19 08:07:58

Well I've got these chocolate fingers and they come from Cadburys. (Tune on replay in my bonce now!)

ScotinOz Mon 25-Mar-19 08:13:42

A drink's too wet without one.....Rich tea biscuits

And I seem to remember one for the overnight sleeper to London (I think) where the wee boy said he'd "had a wee biscuit"

Greyduster Mon 25-Mar-19 08:26:46

One that sprang into my head this morning was the jingle for Robertson’s marmalade “Look for the golly, the golly on the jar!” Not at all pc now, but I used to collect the gollies. Hated the marmalade but my dad liked it.

EllanVannin Mon 25-Mar-19 08:31:38

Urmstongran the Pendletons twicer was a lovely iced lolly half ice and half ice-cream in different flavours. Maybe just a Northwest advert ?

Auntieflo Mon 25-Mar-19 08:35:43

Which twin has the Toni, (perm)

Lovely thread, why didn't I find it yesterday?

EllanVannin Mon 25-Mar-19 08:35:57

There were a lot of sweets adverts as I recall :
Cadbury's Curly Wurly.
Bertie Bassett.
Jelly babies.

eazybee Mon 25-Mar-19 08:37:05

Raelbrook poplin, the shirt you don't iron,
Raelbrook poplin, the shirt you don't iron,
Raelbrook poplin, the shirt you don't iron,
Raelbrook poplin, the shirt you don't iron!

Accompanied by an ever-increasing line of cartoon shirts marching across the screen.
There was an awful one about 'spring clean your house with Flash' sung by a demented woman dashing about an enormous kitchen at the end of a mop, but I can't remember the words, (fortunately). My mother hated that one, as her kitchen quarry tiles had to be scrubbed by hand, then polished.)

Bathsheba Mon 25-Mar-19 08:37:47

'Does she or doesn't she' (or what it 'Is she or isn't she'?) - are you thinking of the Harmony Hair Spray advert BradfordLass?

Greyduster Mon 25-Mar-19 08:58:37

Larissa we used to sing a slightly different version of the Hoover ad:
“All the dirt, all the grit,
All the shavings and the s...?sawdust”,
Etc.?‍♀️

harrigran Mon 25-Mar-19 09:24:08

That advert for the slimming bread where she is in a hot air balloon "she flies like a bird " ?

Carolina55 Mon 25-Mar-19 09:32:58

Ooh just remembered the one where the girl is taking a bath and Paolo Di Canio sticks his head around the door and asks if he can join her....scuse me while I go and lie down!

Can’t remember what the product was!

shysal Mon 25-Mar-19 09:38:02

Has anyone mentioned the Cinzano advert with Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins?
Cinzano

ginny Mon 25-Mar-19 10:48:07

Mr. Stronie soup. ‘Nice and warm for my tummy”

Tangerine Mon 25-Mar-19 21:18:25

Daddy or chips

Hot chocolate, drinking chocolate, hot chocolate, drinking chocolate

Chewbacca Mon 25-Mar-19 21:26:57

The Smash Martians. "For mash get Smash"

When they laughed at the end was the best bit!

Greyduster Mon 25-Mar-19 21:59:37

Harrigran that has been my earworm of the day!!