The "They better not cancel football" bloke is extremely punchable.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 09:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 09:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 09:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 09:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 10:00 (seventeen years ago) link
I honestly read this "the Cod Police" and thought Greenland is exactly where you *would* find them.
― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― theantmustdance (theantmustdance), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link
> "So you've got tickets to the football finals"
is close.
― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link
And yes, when your mates find out you've swapped them for a telly, they're not gonna be impressed at your suave sophistication, they're gonna give you a shoeing
― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― theantmustdance (theantmustdance), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
I can't remember the product but a similarly naff football-themed one recently went something like this:
Jeremy: No, I'm the biggest footer fan.Tarquin: No, I am. I buy a new replica kit every week.Jeremy: That's nothing I've been watching Teh Soccer Finals since 2002!Tarquin: Well, I've got Michael Owen in that cupboard over there.Michael Owen: He's right.
― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Probably has to do with licensing...to use the phrase "World Cup" in your add would mean you'd have to be associated with FIFA somehow, or would have to follow their guidelines, etc. FIFA would consider it cheaping their sponsorship if other companies could namecheck the World Cup. Same with the Superbowl...it's always called the "Big Game" or "Sunday's game".
― musically (musically), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― koogy wonderland (koogs), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 07:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 07:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 07:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― robster (robster), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 07:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― koogy wonderland (koogs), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:13 (seventeen years ago) link
It's the only excitement he's had to look forward to this summer. I never want to see an advert with a footballer in it ever again - esp. not if they have to talk/act.
― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:23 (seventeen years ago) link
thank you. i doff my cap, as always.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 09:26 (seventeen years ago) link
the real question is whether he'll have to get on the tube with it.
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 09:33 (seventeen years ago) link
hi dere dead inside
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 09:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Does he get as far as the fresh veg, then collapse holding his leg and crawl into the potatoes till the physio turns up?
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 09:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 09:38 (seventeen years ago) link
He appears in the advert even tho he hasn't collected a curry all year. Then he passes an Argentinian customer and falls over.
― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 09:43 (seventeen years ago) link
The REAL worst thing is that I still have to buy them because the own brand ones are even WORSE! Urgh!!
― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 09:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Is anyone ever actually "bloated"? We were discussing this in the park the other day. Doesn't it just mean "full"? Really? Or over-sensitivity to fat at emotional times of the month?
― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:02 (seventeen years ago) link
... whereas I think your advertising campaign is shit thing
― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:21 (seventeen years ago) link
and still, those AA adverts. 1.) I think it would be pretty creepy to be stranded in the middle of nowhere while an army of flourscent-jacketed mechanics descend upon me and 2.) How inept are they if it takes that many to actually fix the damn car?
― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link
There's one horrific ad where a cat is walking around a bath-tub with an irritating Yorkshire bumpkin voiceover blaring stuff like "Oscar lahks to play around me bath! And ya just gotta laugh, when he sniffs round that plug'ole!". Ugh.
And also "It's better to get Curanail than be a Criminail!". Words fail me.
― JTS (JTS), Sunday, 16 July 2006 01:11 (seventeen years ago) link
the anti-smoking ads they run here in NY with the tracheotomy guy.
― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 16 July 2006 02:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Sunday, 16 July 2006 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh yeah and ‘you think you look the business, she thinks you look like a cocksucker. REACT.’ Fuck off.
― Mark Lane (bob2), Monday, 17 July 2006 01:11 (seventeen years ago) link
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― nervous (cochere), Monday, 17 July 2006 01:35 (seventeen years ago) link
OH GOD. We have one like that down here. It is a woman with--I guess it is a tracheotomy, it is really just a plug for the hole in her neck--and she talks about smoking and then TAKES OUT THE PLUG and talks through her scary neck hole and I have to change the channel every time it comes on because it freaks me out so much. :ccc I WILL NEVER SMOKE AGAIN.
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 17 July 2006 01:44 (seventeen years ago) link