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Old 01-12-2007, 08:32 PM
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Anyone remember George Cole in the Leeds Building Society Ads?

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Funniest :
Rowan Atkinson in the Barclaycard ads
Rowan Atkinson in the Kronenburg lager ads
A car ad from the 70s/80s with the Two Ronnies. Can't remember the make but Barker plays the showroom salesman and Corbett plays a dodgy criminal type
No celebs involved but that clever Carling ad in the 80s featuring a shoot-out in the old West which then spills over into perfume and supermarket ads.

Worst :
The Post Office ads with Joan Collins, Bill Oddie etc. Not marvellous and ill timed considering all the closures.
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Old 04-12-2007, 07:39 AM
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Arrgh! The latest Post Office ad with Westlife..........................
.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!
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Anyone remember George Cole in the Leeds Building Society Ads?
Yep. He was doing his Arthur Daley thing - "Nice Little Earner".

But he sticks in my mind for the interminable ads he did with David Bailey for Olympus cameras - "David Bailey ? - 'Ooo's 'ee ?"
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Arrgh! The latest Post Office ad with Westlife..........................
It amazes me that people still shop at Tesco because all their hard earned cash is paying for hordes of celebrities to appear in their adverts, and I bet they get their Christmas goodies delivered by Fortnum and Mason!

Morrisons have chosen one ex-football celebrity instead, the dour, boring Alan Hanson who ironically has all the charisma of a Morrisons lard-filled pie!
"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"
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Who were those comedians that did the "I bet he drinks Carling Black Label" advert as The Dam Busters?? Now THAT was funny.
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I remember Oliver Reed and Paula Yates advertising something in the mid-80s. Cannot for the life of me remember what it was though...
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Who were those comedians that did the "I bet he drinks Carling Black Label" advert as The Dam Busters?? Now THAT was funny.
Steve Frost & Mark Arden. There's a YouTube video of it further back up this very thread

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I remember Oliver Reed and Paula Yates advertising something in the mid-80s. Cannot for the life of me remember what it was though...
It was that horrible alcohol-free white wine Eisberg. The ad was supposed to be ironic.

So he goes on to drink himself to an early grave and she takes the same route via drugs.

Some good thinking doing on there.
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It amazes me that people still shop at Tesco because all their hard earned cash is paying for hordes of celebrities to appear in their adverts, and I bet they get their Christmas goodies delivered by Fortnum and Mason!

Morrisons have chosen one ex-football celebrity instead, the dour, boring Alan Hanson who ironically has all the charisma of a Morrisons lard-filled pie!
Are you saying that they've only got Alan Hansen?
I've lost count of the number of celebs in this year's Morrisons ads - including Denise van Outen and Lulu.

YDSL x.
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Didn`t Joanna Lumley & Gareth Hunt do a coffee ad ? Presume it was for Nescafe ?

Or is my memory playing tricks on me ?
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Didn`t Joanna Lumley & Gareth Hunt do a coffee ad ? Presume it was for Nescafe ?

Or is my memory playing tricks on me ?
I remember Gareth Hunt doing them but not Joanna Lumley.

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Yeah Bats, I definitely remember Gareth Hunt doing the `hand-shaking` bit. Must be mistaken about Lumley then - though I`m sure she was in an advert during her `Purdey` days.
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Yeah Bats, I definitely remember Gareth Hunt doing the `hand-shaking` bit. Must be mistaken about Lumley then - though I`m sure she was in an advert during her `Purdey` days.
He was joined by other celebrities during the run of the ads ... Liza Goddard comes to mind but I'm not sure if she was in them or not.

I think Joanna did an ad for Head and Shoulders in her Purdy days.

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