Old Adverts

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 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.

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.

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

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?

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...

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?

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

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

Friday Night is Amami Night !

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.

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

Anyone been to work on an egg?

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

And all because the lady loves Milk Tray.....

They're mighty meaty, Matey!

Nicole?... Papa?...

Racing Drivers eat HP Baked Beans (must be one of the lamest ever!)

They're mighty meaty, Matey!

Nicole?... Papa?...

Racing Drivers eat HP Baked Beans (must be one of the lamest ever!)

Damn you GransNet - no delete button!

Captain Birds Eye!
Incidentally did you know that Clarence Birdseye was the inventor of frozen food? Ooh I'm a mine of information, I am!!

Murray mints Murray mints too good to hurry mints!!My god i'm getting old!!!

There was a girl from Southend,

Who had only tuppence to spend,

What could be nicer, than a Pendletons' Twicer,

When you only have tuppence to spend.

PRINTMISS my lovely FiL was an Ovaltinee, he had a lovely spoon to commemorate his membership to the club, sadly it has been lost.

This thread is a trip down memory lane. It's brilliant. Has anyone played the board game 'Logo'? It's a bit like this. What's a Pendleton's Twicer? Sounds like chewing gum you stick to the bedpost til tomorrow.

A Pendleton's twicer was a yummy kind of ice lolly - almost as good as a frozen Jubbly, my personal favourite.

It was called a twicer because it had ice cream inside the lolly.

Thanks vegasmags Sounds delicious - and I remember a frozen Jubbly mmm.

Wasn't it ' What you (they?) want is Watneys'?