Re: Advert memories from 1992
We got a few of those, growing up in inner-city Nottingham.
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Those parties were often legendary. I had a sikh friend back then, Sandeep. His parents (in keeping with 1980s traditions) owned and ran a newsagents and convenience store in the city. It was in a good location and they did well out of it. One one of those party days, Sandeep was allowed to raid his parents' 'cash and carry' stocks and brought in a load of crisps and Penguin bars. He was a popular boy on that day.Leave a comment:
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It's a bit like a Christmas party we had at school - my family got rid of a load of Tracker bars and donated them to the party and everyone wanted one. I just hope that they had not passed their sell by date.Leave a comment:
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Fig rolls are a thing of wonder. One day, back at primary school, we had a 'last day of term' party where we basically played games all day and each of us brought in some sweets, crisps, cake or similar. One kid brought fig rolls and nobody liked them except me and my friend Lee. We devoured the lot between us and I felt sick for the rest of the day.Originally posted by George 1978 View Post
There's probably a moral in there somewhere.Leave a comment:
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And of course it also mentions the obligatory Fig Roll as well!Originally posted by davidthomas27 View PostLeave a comment:
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The 1980s Jaffa Cake adverts used to unnerve me. Not so much the Munchkins or Jaffa Cake Man himself, but that Jaffa Cake tree with the face. Sinister. Needs to be chopped down and burned.
THE HORROR:
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Yes, that's the one! Thanks David.
That advert was going in July 1992 around the time my school broke up for the holidays because someone was singing the jingle on the final day of term.Leave a comment:
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I was aware of that, but had not given that any thought for 20 years. Thank you for the reminder!Originally posted by George 1978 View Post
It IS in YouTube, you are right, and the clip is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOLrnyUeMc4
Peter Lewis is the consummate professional here, with his emergency voice over, not even breaking a sweat. As if porn breaks happen on his watch every other day. 'We've gone into deep shock for a moment...' You're not wrong there, Peter!
And then the music that follows is just perfect. The typical 'BROADCAST WILL CONTINUE SHORTLY' music you get during TX issues, or when Wimbledon was halted due to the rain, back in the 1980s.
Slightly on topic, but one thing like this that I always find creepy is the Max Headroom TV takeover, from US TV in 1987 during a Dr Who broadcast.
Rather than me comment, watch this unsettling wonder for yourself:
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Advert memories from 1992
Slight tangent ...Originally posted by George 1978 View Post
I work with Autistic teenagers in a secondary school ... a couple of years ago I was in a class with a temp supply teacher when suddenly a porn site appeared on the big screen showing about 20 small screens showing ‘ moving’ clips ( projected from the class teachers laptop ) .. she was obviously horrified when she realised and quickly closed the website down .... babbled her excuses to the pupils ... put me in charge whilst she went to explain directly to the headmaster .... but she immediately fainted outside the classroom and was carted off in an ambulance... never to be seen again !!
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Regarding the German porn, I know that LWT in the London area, accidentally cut to a European TV channel which was showing a lesbian film during an edition of Richard Littlejohn's chat show at around 11.00 pm on a Friday night - the screen went blank and then went to an LWT caption with announcer Peter Lewis apologising and playing some music until Littlejohn returned around a minute later - could that be what you are thinking of? It is on YouTube.
The S4C thing might not be true, but I don't live in Wales so I wouldn't know. I read it somewhere.Leave a comment:
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Well, that's a new one on me! I love random 'urban myths' about TV and the like, and that one was an absolute gem.Originally posted by George 1978 View Post
At least, unlike most things like this, I actually SAW that Neutralia advert myself. It was not the friend of my friend's sister's boyfriend.
I did have a friend at school who swore blind that, one night on the ITV Night Time in 1989 or 1990, he randomly saw some hard German porn that was briefly broadcast in error. However, this was also the kid who claimed to have the 'new Nintendo' from Japan that, when we asked to see it, had conveniently been stolen from his house.Leave a comment:
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I read somewhere that on one day when that Natrel advert was shown on S4C and the station closed down after midnight, the Duty Manager rewound the day's adverts and paused on that advert, having a good look at the woman's naked part, freeze frame before rewinding the remainder of them. The rumour had it that the station was still on the air when he did that and most of Wales could have seen what he was doing! It might not have been true of course...Originally posted by Disco_Puppy View PostLeave a comment:
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I got made redundant late 1992. So it wasn't just anus horriblus for Her Maj!Leave a comment:
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Well, 1992 was a grand year. I was 16 and that was the year I left high school and started my A-levels at college.
And this was when TV seemed to be a lot better and have a lot more 'soul' about it. I loved staying up late in 1992, watching ITV Night Time on the portable TV in my bedroom, feeling like a rebel as I watched random US TV shows and terrifying public information films (thanks for the trauma, Dark and Lonely Water).
Here are a few of my favourites from 1992:
- MERCURY
Harry Enfield in his Mr Cholmondley-Warner persona, spoofing the 1940s age of excessive elocution. Perhaps telling that the adverts are still amusing, but what became of Mercury telecoms, eh?
(Yes, I could find out online, but there is something oddly romantic in just not knowing...
- COMMODORE AMIGA
Spectacled nerd terrifies cheap Terminator rip-off via Deluxe Paint and Another World. I was saving up for the Amiga at the time, so this advert was just a torment for me. I wanted to kick the smud kid in the face, with his probably rich parents who bought him his Amiga.
- MATES CONDOMS.
The old man and his friend 'Geronimo'. The thought of it still plagues my nightmares. 'Like wearing a bike inner-tube'.
- VODAPHONE (Christmas advert)
A decade before being Theoden in Lord of the Rings, here was Bernard Hill dressed as Santa, plugging the 'new future' of mobile phones with a crappy reindeer puppet. Perhaps Peter Jackson based his casting decision on this advert alone?
- HEINEKEN
The coolest blues man in the world plays an amazing song as his wife leaves him and his life falls apart. Better remebered for the fat neighbour falling through his floor when playing his harmonica. Sadly, the lager still tastes like ****.
- NATREL
Almost naked sylvan folk run about in a forest and camoflage themselves against trees, thanks to the power of this deoderant. My friend and I were convinced back than that you could see the lady's boob. She was wearing a tight bodysuit, and we were just being young and delusional.
(as an aside, there was an infamous advert in the UK about that time for some shower gel, maybe Neutralia, that did show a woman's nipple. It was obviously show in error and I only remember ever seeing it once on ITV)
- PHILADELPHIA
I don't remember much about the adverts, but the shrill accents of those two office ladies were infections. My friends and I imitated them for ages. We hope it might impress girls. We were painfully misguided. Also, I had a strange crush on the blonde lady from those advertsLeave a comment:
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