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What are your favourite ads from the past? - particularly the ones accompanied by a little tune.

Gravy Pot ("Pour it on... Pour it on!" Was it a sausage requesting the brown goo?)

Goggles shades ("Goggles for girls, Goggles for guys, the greatest thing that's ever happened to eyes...")

Toast Toppers ("When toast is on the bottom, it's the tops")

Well, there's the Cadbury's Smash ad, of course. And the "Funny Feet" ice-cream ad. And the sinister "Mr Soft" ad that seemed to be suggesting the mints in question contained a powerful hallucinogenic.

I think the "Sheila's Wheels" ads are very clever: selling the idea that you're not dealing with some dull, heartless insurance company, but a bunch of kitsch (and probably gay) Aussies. To see how clever they are, compare them to the Barclay's ads which try to suggest their staff are "wacky" but actually suggest they're a bunch of incompetent pricks.

However, most of all I miss the days when 90% of ads weren't about getting in to or out of debt, or guilt-tripping grannies to take out a "whole of life" policy to ensure their kids don't have to pay for the funeral when they snuff it.

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Jarvis Cocker or David Bowie or AVB or Johnny Borrell, she isn't picky

Cavey Cocker, Cup Cake Queen, Saint Thomas.

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I made my mind up back in Chelsea, when I go I'm going like Elsie

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"Baby, don't make the Egyptian Lover come in there and show you what time it is"

IMHO there's only ever been one decent advert ever made...

"ohhhh.. yes"



I like it so much i've bought car insurance of 'em even though I don't have a car...

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Tall, moustachioed alcoholic - plays firewood with a bow.