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Granmarderby10 Sun 01-May-22 12:55:57

Can you remember the product from the jingle or catch phrase?
I thought this might be fun

I’ll start with this one from when I was little - we watched a lot of ITV in those days.

Tense, nervous headache? …then take ……..

TillyTrotter Sun 01-May-22 15:02:26

Audi Audi ?

Juliet27 Sun 01-May-22 14:53:07

CraftyGranny

Orora where's the...

KIAORA

Audi10 Sun 01-May-22 14:49:51

Vorksprung Durch Technic

Parsley3 Sun 01-May-22 14:40:42

Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet.
Brilliant ads for these cigars. I loved the one where Columbus lights up after a crewman shouts “ End of the World, Captain!”

Kate1949 Sun 01-May-22 14:38:04

I'm getting carried away with this thread.

- are good for your tubes.

FannyCornforth Sun 01-May-22 14:27:48

Yes GD, it was Tunes!

Kate1949 Sun 01-May-22 14:07:58

It was Bovril Hellogirl. I saw it somewhere recently.

Hellogirl1 Sun 01-May-22 14:05:52

Sharps.............!

Hellogirl1 Sun 01-May-22 14:05:13

I think it was Oxo, not Bovril

welbeck Sun 01-May-22 14:04:20

Happiness is a cigar called......

Kate1949 Sun 01-May-22 14:02:04

Yes it was. Sally Thomsett.

Granmarderby10 Sun 01-May-22 14:01:32

Kate1942 was it Bovril?

Granmarderby10 Sun 01-May-22 13:59:58

Fanny was going to say *VicksSinex but that was *Balcome” or Malcome to his friends
so I’ve gone for TUNES …help you breathe more easily.
I liked the cherry ones

Kate1949 Sun 01-May-22 13:55:28

He's got big ears anyway....

Parsley3 Sun 01-May-22 13:54:52

Opal Fruits...made to make your mouth water.

Granmarderby10 Sun 01-May-22 13:54:12

Funny how these things get into your head. Can’t think or here the words tense or nervous without a mental picture off that wrinkled brow appearing?

Redhead56 Sun 01-May-22 13:53:24

Opal Fruits

Granmarderby10 Sun 01-May-22 13:51:28

Sorry H1954 but was YeastVite! Wonder what happened to that?
The advert consisted of a very Lady Bird Book kind of Mum with a bit of a headache (depicted in deep frown lines ) being approached by a squeaky voiced daughter weilding a teddy “to kiss Mummy better” …..I know…it was the 60s

sharon103 Sun 01-May-22 13:50:16

Think bike? Tilly

? made to make your mouth water

Kate1949 Sun 01-May-22 13:48:20

Strand Fanny

Redhead56 Sun 01-May-22 13:46:58

And all because the lady…

FannyCornforth Sun 01-May-22 13:46:55

Kate1949

You're never alone with a ?

Was that Marlboro? I know that it was for cigarettes

TillyTrotter Sun 01-May-22 13:46:45

Beechams powders Fanny ?

Parsley3 Sun 01-May-22 13:46:33

BT ..... but it’s an ology!

TillyTrotter Sun 01-May-22 13:46:15

Yes. Bike.

Would you give someone you love your last …. ?