Sminky shorts
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Blakeys
They still make Dracula's in Spain. We had them in Valencia last year.
But they don't have the jelly inside.
I was horrified.
I remember being able to save a few packets and send away for one of these.
That wasn't jelly, it was your victim's blood!!
The horror!
Probably full of e-numbers, which is why you can't get it any more.
Remember when milk cartons looked like this? (Not in Swedish, obviously)
Hung on with Donegal Creameries incredibly late, then they went to the squat rectangular milk cartons which they again kept using for probably a decade and a half after everyone else changed to the tall ones. Still get juice in the old type sometimes.
Thought at first that was Mary O'Rourke in the top pic.
TV ads with young children impersonating Humphrey Bogart.
Michael Fish - for the day that's in it.
John Kettley was a weatherman.
And so was Michael Fish.
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Shaws - almost nationwide
Anyone remember Giant Chew bars? They were kind of like refresher bars but much bigger.
Is your own TV repair man any good?
"I do indeed have my eyes on a casino in Windsor"
Obscure ad you forgot about.
Did Ronald MacDonald clown come to your MacDonald's birthday party?
No, thank god.
Was that even a thing in Ireland?
Yes it did exist in Ireland. Extant in the early 1980's.
The clown was paid sh*t.
It happened much later that that.
I can remember birthday parties of my younger siblings in the early 1990s in the Pirate Ship seating, upstairs in McDonalds of Stillorgan, and Ronald always made an appearance, if pre-arranged.
”Dingo jeans just to step out of line in”
No No, no no no no, no no no no, no no there's no limits
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Roches Stores
Hector Greys
Get the last of the Cheeky Charlies!
If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club.
My late mother appreciated the educational values of Sesame Street, but could never let that sketch go without remarking "Americans… it's a sin to waste food"
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