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21st Feb 2017, 4:34 pm | #21 |
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Re: Interesting Ad
In the early '70s, when I was a student, the answer to the question "What's the most efficient way to turn beer into Watneys?" was "Use a student!".
ISTR it coincided with the emergence of CAMRA into the light of day.
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21st Feb 2017, 5:14 pm | #22 |
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Lowenbrau beer (pronounced Lurvenbroi in German) originates from Munich in Bavaria. The name means Lion's brew. One advertizing campaign was the slogan "Lowenbrau, a beer like Bavaria". Every morning standing on a freezing cold platform waiting for a train I looked at a large poster with that slogan and thought "yeah, cold and wet".
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Brylcreem...A Little Dab -a -Do Ya You'll Wonder Where The Yellow Went When You Brush Your Teeth With Pepsodent
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21st Feb 2017, 6:09 pm | #24 |
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Of course another technique is to produce an advert which is so dreadful as to cause everyone to continuously criticise it - and therefore remind people of the product it promotes. For that reason, I won't mention any examples!
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A double diode works wonders, works wonders...
Or something like that I've been wanting to use that joke for 40 years... David
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21st Feb 2017, 8:06 pm | #26 |
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Thus proving the old adage: 'there's no such thing as bad publicity'.
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21st Feb 2017, 8:16 pm | #27 |
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Perhaps I should post the other side of the poster as a fitting end to the (interesting) off topic digressions in this thread.
If it's still open by the time I get home.......
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(It's next to the river and prone to flooding - when the water gushes in it's likely a full wave...) |
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21st Feb 2017, 11:58 pm | #29 |
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Yer 'tis.
I could name her Millie Henry, perhaps....
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22nd Feb 2017, 3:36 am | #30 |
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Is it me, or does that "Music Box" record player look a bit ahead of its time?
I bet it wasn't quite as dire-sounding as its modern equivalent, though .....
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22nd Feb 2017, 10:17 am | #31 |
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There's nothing so exciting on the back of my poster of Olivia Newton John of the same year.
Only a week or two back I was rummaging through a folder of such stuff that had been in my parents' loft - there are a lot of vintage cuttings and promotional material from the early days of BBC and ILR local radio and pirate radio days - but perhaps that is for another thread. We had a Philips AG4000 in the 1960s. I still have the records, including LPs, that were bought to play on it and they have fared very well (far better than the ones that were regularly played on a Fidelity box with BSR auto-changer that arrived a decade later). I eventually wired it to a wooden box speaker which improved the sound somewhat. I also wired in a PSU as it was intended to run off six U2 batteries. Many happy hours... |
22nd Feb 2017, 1:35 pm | #32 |
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I think the thread's tone controls have been adjusted since first thing this morning.....
Has everything in the original ad been identified yet?
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22nd Feb 2017, 1:40 pm | #33 |
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22nd Feb 2017, 2:14 pm | #34 |
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I think this thread has run its course now. Time to turn the page.
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