Sminky shorts
Wikipedia:
Ross McManus wrote and sang the advert's song, with his son Declan McManus (later known as Elvis Costello) providing the backing vocals.
Interesting that Elvis Costello then went on to become a pop singer . . 😞
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What are the Thirty Nine Steps?
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3704336 :)
Think it only works on old style calcies
Sally O’Brien and the way she’d look at you
I need a circle of caps for my cap gun.
Hello Dave, have you got a new motor?
Can I have a box of red matches please
John.
John, did ya put the cat out?
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Car ads in the UK were all about features, value for money etc.
Here it was "our customers are fúcking morons barely out of ass and cart, let's give them a jingle."
Also it's a pity all copies of the Safe Cross Code on Youtube are so badly deinterlaced.
I’ll have that cheesy jingle playing in my head for the rest of the day 😅 All the smiles and winks the car is getting. The funniest is the priest looking up to heaven as if it was a car created by God himself.
We used to worship them around my way. They used to be 10p a roll. I found a sound round pound on the ground one day. I went to the shop and bought 10 rolls. I thought I was the Frosties king!
Out of the first few rolls I would have most of them and maybe give out one or 2 to the other kids on the street. By the fifth roll I was getting sick of them and giving away more than half the roll. I don't think I ever bought another roll after that.
Who shot Jr
Press b when you hear the beep
Be kind rewind
Beta vs Vhs
Kylie and Jason
Going Live
Multi colored swap shop
Roll it there Colette
Thanks for listening, enjoy the film
I’ll have a bottle of Guinness draft please
An hour of "St Patrick - Living Legend". Sounds riveting. I thought most of the target audience would be tucked up with their cocoa by 11pm though.
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^^ Still have 'em and it's an inorganic chemical, it doesn't go off, just keep them dry.
Free webtexts.
Are you 085?
Tosh!
Spot Quiz - without using a search engine, which current TD appears in the Safe Cross Code advert?
Obviously made by a south Dublin ad agency who wouldn't dream of crossing the river. Funny how all the locations are still recognisable, and haven't changed much at all.
Not just free webtexts, but remember the free features of the webtext facility - group texts, advance schedule texts - all handy functions that are now only available to paying customers of subscription services.
56k modem
8 track player
sally o,brien
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