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The Power of Advertising

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Fflaurie Tue 28-Apr-26 10:50:01

Oh the power of advertising, I wasn’t very well Saturday night, I was sitting on the loo, feeling very sorry for myself while singing: when you’ve got heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhoea……..

AngieLC Wed 29-Apr-26 15:37:45

What about I’m a secret lemonade drinker, R Whites….?

poppysmum Wed 29-Apr-26 16:04:58

the Cresta bear
its frothy man!
p p p pick up a penguin
or the milk tray man swooping through your window
only the crumbliest chocolate with the girl sat in a sunflower field painting then it rains and her picture runs but looks better
Frys turkish delight

Moth62 Wed 29-Apr-26 16:10:04

I used to LOVE the Cresta Bear advert as a teenager!

Marmin Wed 29-Apr-26 16:13:56

1001 cleans a bug, big carpet
For less than half a crown!

Marmin Wed 29-Apr-26 16:14:20

Big big big !

Thisismyname1953 Wed 29-Apr-26 17:59:49

I half remember the Smash advert where the tin robots laugh at humans for cooking potatoes and mashing them all together .
We had family who worked in Ford car factory at that time who made the metal robots in their spare time . Very funny .

PamelaJ1 Wed 29-Apr-26 18:24:58

At least we remembered what was being advertised.
Now I often don’t have a clue.

ClicketyClick Wed 29-Apr-26 18:49:07

No annoying jingles but it definitely had the power of advertising - the Cinzano ads with Joan Collins and Leonard Rossiter.

Abcdefg Wed 29-Apr-26 19:12:12

Nuts whole Hazel nuts, cadbury's take them and they cover them in chocolate

Gizzy48 Wed 29-Apr-26 20:15:20

I loved the Esso Blue adverts. “Hello, I’m the Esso Blee dooler”

sazz1 Wed 29-Apr-26 20:19:54

I loved the shake n vac advert but not the product its too strong smelling.
Absolutely hate the incontinence pants advert it's crass and undignified.
One foreign student we hosted found our TV advertising difficult to understand especially the black horse galloping across the screen. He just couldn't understand what a bank has to do with a horse lol.

MollyNew Wed 29-Apr-26 20:31:53

Cresta fizzy pop - "it's frothy, man"

Mojack26 Thu 30-Apr-26 22:59:52

🤣..I absolutely HATE that advert along with these awful awful funeral ads...

Basgetti Thu 30-Apr-26 23:06:38

AngieLC

What about I’m a secret lemonade drinker, R Whites….?

I think the man in that ad was Elvis Costello’s dad?
If I’m correct, Elvis sort of makes sense 😁