guinness ads

danniemcq

are the facts they say in the guinness ads actually true???

like the harp because of the coin toss???
the 17:59 because of the time of day

yada yada yada.... can anyone sort fact from fiction???

Chalk

there all fiction.

tribute to the old "draw your own conclusion" cathphrase

JackieChan

Dannie,
1759 was when the brewery was established...nothing to do with the time of day!!!
The 9999 year lease is true though

joejoem

all bull, apart from the recent one. Yer man did really swim to New York from Dublin to say sorry. It took hi 8 weeks with no food and water or sleep but the typical hard irish man went on the piss as soon as he arrived.

JackieChan

I hear he is in training to swim to Australia to visit his sister.....their not talking

*Angel*

Good ads though, I always like the music aswell.

JackieChan

They had great hurling ads in the last couple of years. The current billboard they have with the hound and Setanta are fantastic

digitally-yours

well if that started to happen more frequently ryanair will go bust :eek: :eek: :eek:
have a pint and on ur journey in the sea

JackieChan wrote:

I hear he is in training to swim to Australia to visit his sister.....their not talking

monkeyfudge

danniemcq wrote:

are the facts they say in the guinness ads actually true???

like the harp because of the coin toss???

Guinness had the logo long before the Irish state used the Harp. The state uses a harp facing in the other direction as a result. I believe Guinness are the only company in the world allowed to have the harp as a logo, simply because they had it first.

Dyr

JackieChan wrote:

They had great hurling ads in the last couple of years. The current billboard they have with the hound and Setanta are fantastic

I cant stand it, the hound looks like a sock puppet, and setanta looks like some gay 70s roller skater with that silly headband on his napper, wouldnt be suprised if he's wearing ankle warmers too

and my old hurling team was called setanta and all :mad:

aidan_dunne

Ah, the current ads are nothing compared to the Guinness ads of yore!

The surfers and the boyos rowing out to the island in the currach. And your man dancing around the place like a mad yoke to that Perez Prado tune. Now those are true classic Guinness ads, in my opinion.

muckwarrior

JackieChan wrote:

The 9999 year lease is true though

Is it really 9999?
I thought it was just 999.

BlitzKrieg

[starts dancing]

DADA!!! Dadadadaaaa DADADADAAAA dadadada dididididididid DADA!!! dadadadadaaaa DADADADAAA DADA DAAA

[POSE!]

Norinoco

muckwarrior wrote:

Is it really 9999?
I thought it was just 999.

Straight from some unofficaly website!...

The lease on the Guinness brewery ends in 10,759 A.D. A 9000 - year lease





(Wahoo - my 100th post!!)

LadyJ

I miss the dancing guinness man

eefs

LadyJ wrote:

I miss the dancing guinness man

I served him chilli at a party once. I didn't ask him to do the dance though, I didn't recognise him. :< Damn my ignorant 10 year old self!!

Wertz

Nothing from Guinness even approaches the "All the time in the world" advert.

eefs

Wertz wrote:

Nothing from Guinness even approaches the "All the time in the world" advert.

Would that be the Bulmers ad?

LadyJ

I think Carlsberg ads take the cake tbh.

jezza

i love the "would vyou like to use ve vathroom" farewell.
classic

Wertz

eefs wrote:

Would that be the Bulmers ad?

pfft (BTW I hate those damn Bulmers ads)

No I mean this one:
http://www.absolutelyandy.com/tvadverts/videos_wmv3/guinness_fly_through.wmv
right click and Save As to download

Capt'n Midnight

aidan_dunne wrote:

Ah, the current ads are nothing compared to the Guinness ads of yore!

The surfers and the boyos rowing out to the island in the currach. And your man dancing around the place like a mad yoke to that Perez Prado tune. Now those are true classic Guinness ads, in my opinion.

No to mention the 30 second adds back in the days of ESB powercuts.

deisedevil

Anyone have a link to de dancing guy ad, i'd love to see that again.

Third_Echelon

If you do the tour of the guiness storehouse you can watch all the old ads on one of their audio-visual stands...

Its pretty cool. I was standing at it for about half an hour looking at all the old ads....

the_syco

danniemcq wrote:

the 17:59 because of the time of day

Don't think
a) they had TV then
b) they all rushed into church for a minute, and then back to the pub

=-=

You wouldn't happen to be American, would ye?

Easily_Irritated

JackieChan wrote:

I hear he is in training to swim to Australia to visit his sister.....their not talking

the guinness radio ad where theyre 'interviewing' the guy who swam to new york and he says ^^ that is very amusing!

smoocher

aidan_dunne wrote:

Ah, the current ads are nothing compared to the Guinness ads of yore!

The surfers and the boyos rowing out to the island in the currach. And your man dancing around the place like a mad yoke to that Perez Prado tune. Now those are true classic Guinness ads, in my opinion.

the surfer add won the best ad ever on one of them channel four thingys, was pretty good imo.

Wertz

smoocher wrote:

the surfer add won the best ad ever on one of them channel four thingys, was pretty good imo.

You're on about the newer one with the leftfield tune and the horses in the waves...aidan_dunne is on about the old one from the 80's.
Haha...just thinking about the Harp ads from the 80's, Vikings and Brian Boru; classic.

Tar.Aldarion

annoying guiness ads...i love the old slogan though ''guiness gets you fuc*ked''

aidan_dunne

Wertz wrote:

You're on about the newer one with the leftfield tune and the horses in the waves...aidan_dunne is on about the old one from the 80's.

That's the one I'm on about alright, Wertz. The one with the really cool guitar music in it. And immortalised in Christy Moore's 'Delerium Tremens' ("As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad I could never figure out, how you're man stayed up on the surfboard after 14 pints of stout!" Classic! ).

The horses in the waves one was pretty good too....... but I still say you can't beat the old ones from the early 80's!

Mossy Monk

my favourite is the fish cycling the bicycle

makes me smile every time

Piste

Easily_Irritate wrote:

the guinness radio ad where theyre 'interviewing' the guy who swam to new york and he says ^^ that is very amusing!

How can someone say ''^^''?

The Guiness ads are great. The horses one, the complaining one and the '1759' ones in particular.

Caliden

whats the song in the newest, where yer man is in the rain getting his pint watered down while watching the match in a tiny shebeen

RuggieBear

Caliden wrote:

whats the song in the newest, where yer man is in the rain getting his pint watered down while watching the match in a tiny shebeen

is that the one with the prodigy music...think it's "spitfire"

thelordofcheese

It's spitfire, it's on the album "allways outnumbered, never outgunned"

danniemcq

the_syco wrote:

You wouldn't happen to be American, would ye?

feck no i'm as irish as they come it's just something that was buggin me for ages and causing all sorts of hassle and arguements in the pub thats all