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Nostalgic advertising catchphrases/taglines...

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  • #92
    Hangdogroad
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120648494#Comment_120648494

    Yes, it was a Department Of Agriculture psa. The two are arguing and at the end turn away from each other and there's a freeze frame. Early 80s id say.



  • #93
    Andrea B.
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120648861#Comment_120648861

    Thanks.

    I had learnt the line and used to repeat to the mirror, with the addition of Golden Maverick man's matchstick between teeth.

    It was kept to the privacy of the bathroom, as I was a townie after all.



  • #94
    An Riabhach
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120649064#Comment_120649064

    "Your cattle were in my field yesterday".

    "Ah mind your own business."

    "TB spreading on my land IS my business"

    "I don't give a damn".

    The farmer (or neighbour) who doesn't give a damn.... know him for what he is.

    Siúl leat, siúl leat, le dóchas i do chroí, is ní shiúlfaidh tú i d'aonar go deo.



  • #95
    standardg60
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBRCZLzn5pM

    4yr old me was convinced we were being invaded..



  • #96
    adaminho
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    Cock-a-Leekie soup without the bones?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E_vWR6fmss


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  • #97
    ollaetta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,337 ✭✭✭ollaetta


    This is making me feel old but what the heck:

    And all because the lady loves Milk Tray.

    Coca Cola, it's the real thing.

    Ready Brek, central heating for kids.

    Snap, crackle and pop.

    Ah Bisto!

    Tá siad ag teach (Guinness)



  • #98
    Hangdogroad
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    The Bulmers ads that copied the ZZ Top videos with the vintage car "Bulmers cider, the decider cider, yeah yeah".



  • #99
    Fanny Wank
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    Tony. We said the bet was everything on the *entire* menu......



  • #100
    Hangdogroad
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    They said it couldn't be done.. done...done!



  • #101
    HeidiHeidi
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    It's only me…. your Peter's better, then??



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  • #102
    Esel
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    Not Your Ornery Onager


    "Stag, just right for enjoyment!"

    When he heard it my father used to say:

    "It is, - if you don't drink too much of it!" 😀

    Not your ornery onager



  • #103
    Quantum Erasure
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    How many bones has a body got?



  • #104
    Hotblack Desiato
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124357040#Comment_124357040

    Coca Cola, it's the real thing.

    You're not old if you don't remember "I'd like to teach the world to sing".

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • #105
    Hotblack Desiato
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124357837#Comment_124357837

    But now it has been done…

    How much did that fiasco cost!!!

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • #106
    Hotblack Desiato
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124359099#Comment_124359099

    AKA "leg opener". 😯

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • #107
    cj maxx
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    I thought Pernot was the leg opener



  • #108
    Fanny Wank
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    You could have a Lionel Blair cut, like mine

    Lionel Blair doesn't 'ave his haircut like yours

    He does if he comes 'ere



  • #109
    ollaetta
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124359363#Comment_124359363

    Mad Men!



  • #110
    elperello
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    "If you feel like singing do sing an Irish song"

    Walton's



  • #111
    Photobox
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124359439#Comment_124359439

    I thought it was Ritz.



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  • #112
    thejuggler
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    Not product advertising as such but the public safety adverts on tv in the 80s left a lasting impression. ‘Did you put the cat out ?’ was the question posed by a wife to her spouse who diligently goes downstairs to check only to find that the television was left plugged in and was smouldering. It gave me a compulsion to unplug electrical appliances before bedtime.

    In the same vein ‘Where’s Grandad?’ featured an older gentleman dozing in his deckchair and apparently falling over into the river. There were others about water safety, electrical hazards - not climbing pilons to get your kite back. And bonzo the family pet dog who becomes savage and bloodthirsty when he ventures out at night preying on vulnerable flocks of chickens etc. Lots of fire safety stuff about not wearing flammable nightdresses in front of the fireplace and having a plan to evacuate your house in the event of fire. Sometimes it feels that most tv advertising in that period was government funded. Not to mention the esb adverts (going back with Alan Hughes) - why did they need to advertise? They had no competitors in the 1980s.



  • #113
    standardg60
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124359556#Comment_124359556

    Pernod was known as the leg opener for me too, a pity they never advertised it as such, now that would be a tagline!



  • #114
    New Home
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124359570#Comment_124359570

    This was quite literally a leg opener.

    Untitled Image

    Mind you, I've also seen it used to prop open sash windows...



  • #115
    littlefeet
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    The Board gas Ad, singing 50/50 cash back lala. Mainly because one of mine use to go round singing it.



  • #116
    sydthebeat
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    I'll be your dog ...



  • #117
    Hangdogroad
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    Harp, with its different campaigns and slogans in UK and Ireland.

    In Britain in the early 80s it ran the "Stay Sharp" campaign, featuring laddish types on the pull.

    At the same time in Ireland you had the Sally O'Brien ad, the tagline was "home is where the Harp is", not sure if it was part of a series. A couple of years later the Vikings ads with the tagline "the Golden touch".

    Late 80s and early 90s Harp uk ran the "time for a sharp exit, time for a cool sharp Harp". This included the "Lionel Blair haircut" one.

    At the same time in the Republic and Northern Ireland the "seriously good beer" ads with the time travelling guy ran. Think these might have run in some English ITV regions as well as I've seen them pop up in old ad breaks on YouTube.



  • #118
    Hotblack Desiato
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    I.S. 148. It sounds like a robot, doesn't it?

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • #119
    Hangdogroad
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    Carling Black Label also did different advertising campaigns for Britain and Ireland.

    In Britain it had the long running "ill bet he drinks...campaign.

    In Ireland, at least throughout the 80s, it advertised with the song that went "Carling Black Label, light hearted lager, so full of flavour". This was dropped when they made that animated ad with the Cajun song circa 1990.

    Post edited by Hangdogroad on


  • #120
    adaminho
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124360395#Comment_124360395

    The Balfa Brothers - La danse de Mardi Gras

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgkGjOfkvck

    (I know this as it's on a playlist where I go for lunch)



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  • #121
    bodhrandude
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    Just wondering was the 'Pure Genius' logo for Guinness thought up for the Rutger Hauer set of adverts. Whilst looking this up, the Pure Genius logo was apparently started up in 1985 I also didn't know that Ridley Scott was behind all these Guinness ads.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIXmHMLPmiM

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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