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From: Jim on 28 Mar 2006 14:07 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > Happy birthday mate! > > > > I'm still holding you to that deal with the Mint Bailey's. > > Why doesn't your new little white cross on black backround look all > fluttery like the one on your AIM account? But...but it _does_! Jim -- Find me at http://www.ursaminorbeta.co.uk AIM/iChatAV: JCAndrew2 Is anyone interested in helping contribute to a whisky podcast? If so, please visit http://www.ursaminorbeta.co.uk/theDram/ thank you.
From: Woody on 28 Mar 2006 15:01 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > > Happy birthday mate! > > > > > > I'm still holding you to that deal with the Mint Bailey's. > > > > Why doesn't your new little white cross on black backround look all > > fluttery like the one on your AIM account? > > But...but it _does_! Well, that is better. Now if you could just sort the colour out.... -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Bella Jones on 28 Mar 2006 15:33 zoara <me3(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Today is Antony Lacey's birthday! > > Happy Birthday, Antony. Hope you have a good one! Happy birthday mate. Wishing you a shower of shinies! :-) > 1960 - Chris Barrie, British actor > 1961 - Byron Scott, American basketball player As I read down the list, I conflated these and wondered why on earth the bloke from the Cillit Bang advert was in there. -- bellajonez at yahoo dot co dot uk
From: zoara on 29 Mar 2006 03:17 On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:33:39 +0100, Bella Jones wrote: > zoara <me3(a)privacy.net> wrote: > >> Today is Antony Lacey's birthday! >> >> Happy Birthday, Antony. Hope you have a good one! > > Happy birthday mate. Wishing you a shower of shinies! :-) > >> 1960 - Chris Barrie, British actor >> 1961 - Byron Scott, American basketball player > > As I read down the list, I conflated these and wondered why on earth the > bloke from the Cillit Bang advert was in there. I read an interesting little article that 'exposed' Barry Scott as a completely fictional character. It was talking about the way that they'd managed to pull a brilliant bit of marketing by making you feel like it must be a celebrity endorsement - you *must* have seen him somewhere - otherwise why would he introduce himself by name *as though you should know who he is*? Even for people who didn't fall for celebrity endorsements ("You mean And and Dec use Pampers pull-ups? They *must* be good.") there was that unsettling feeling you *should* know the guy. Actually, even before I read that, it was one of my favourite adverts. I don't know why. I especially liked the absolute bollocks science bit [1] - "It's basically calcium" (sic) - and then a shot of calcium fizzing away in Cillit Bang (in exactly the same way it would in plain old water, but does that matter?) And a little bit of googling has turned up some more interesting controversy [2] including fictional blogging/blog commenting, hardcore remix videos, and best of all the fact that they use a copper coin to demonstrate Cillit Bang's 'powers', despite there being warning on the bottle not to use it on copper. What a *brilliant* advert. "Easy-off Bam!" -zoara- [1] http://www.badscience.net/?p=114 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cillit_Bang
From: David Kennedy on 29 Mar 2006 03:26
On 29/3/06 9:17 am, zoara wrote: > > I read an interesting little article that 'exposed' Barry Scott as a > completely fictional character. It was talking about the way that they'd > managed to pull a brilliant bit of marketing by making you feel like it > must be a celebrity endorsement - you *must* have seen him somewhere - > otherwise why would he introduce himself by name *as though you should know > who he is*? > They should have got Troy McClure. -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com |