Old Adverts

Look for the little lion, as Sir Bernard Miles used to say.

Anyone been to work on an egg?

Oh! That reminds me of the Bisto ad with the Bisto Kids....'Mmmm!'

Taste them enjoy them
Walls lovely pork sausages.

I remember this advert best from the Saturday kids matinee at the local pictures.The large screen would fill with a coloured picture of frying pan full of sausages.We would always instinctively go ''Mmm'' all at once because they looked so real you could almost smell them.

Erm, sorry it was me. Oh dear..... !

Friday Night is Amami Night !

Erm, sorry it was me. Oh dear..... !

I think I have probably got that wrong, of course it was "What no............" I am really going to go mad now, Thinking what the "Watneys" one was. WHO STARTED THIS THREAD?

feetle - from Wikipedia:

Etymologist Dave Wilton says, "Some time during the war, Chad and Kilroy met, and in the spirit of Allied unity merged, with the British drawing appearing over the American phrase." (Kilroy was here)

Perhaps the ad you're thinking of was captioned "Wot no Watneys" PRINTMISS...

Kilroy and Ana weren't connected, Ana - and the 'caption' to a Chad grafitto was always in the form "Wot, no _____?" I don't think Chad survived the end of WWII - I do remember there was a Chad card game, though!

Anyone remember the Squanderbug?

Sounds like the Kilroy Was Here character (Chad), but I don't remember a Watneys ad featuring him....

Maniac "We are the Ovaltinies, Happy boys and girls" - someone else is bound to remember the rest, and this has been bugging me for days - the baldhead and long nose peering over a brickwall, fists either side of face saying "WHAT WE WANT IS WATNEYS". It has just come to me. Don't think that was a t.v. ad.

I had a Saturday job in C&A when I was 15. All the female staff had to call each other 'Miss whatever'. The supervisors were tyrants. I always loved the clothes there though.

When a pharmacy where I worked was having a refit I rescued a few items including an oval wooden plaque with gold lettering
'Drink delicious OVALTINE for Health!

I think(??) that C&A was started by Dutch brothers.

C & A were in the Nederlands, too, when I visited 3 years ago. Must take a look online - thanks.

Oh, really? Thank you, mrsmopp!

They still have C & A in France and Spain. Lucky people!
But you can still order if you google c&a online. Its all there.

They still have C & A in France and Spain.Lucky people!

Me too! Several years ago, we went to a small international conference in Brussels, and stayed in a very smart hotel right in the centre of town. There was some free time, so we all headed for the shops. Our chic Italian, French and other Eoropean friends came back clutching smart little bags with smart names on; my British friends and I came back absolutely delighted to have found a C&A!

I'm still wearing clothes bought at C & A. How old-fashioned does that make me ? I have a blue jacket/cardigan that I find very useful to slip on when the evenings are cool .

Oh, I do miss C & A!

Come to C & A
See the things you're looking for.
Come to C & A and see surprises evsrywhere.
Open up your eyes.
Mirrors dont tell lies,
Its a beautiful day, Come to C & A.

Was it BENETON that had those really bright adverts for clothes, and there was some scandal about them? Or is that a yogourt drink?

For the best in a picket of a bruflade... Flowers.

(Stanley Unwin, for Flowers Bitter)

There are more hops in Ben Truman... (although some said' There are more hops in a dead frog...')

Birds Eye peas
Sweet as the moment
Sweet as the moment when the
Pod went 'pop'!

When mash means Smash. I think it was Cadburys Smash to start with. Is that right or wrong?