Was getting worried about my score on this one as came up blank with numbers (1) and (2)... Then hit number three and after that I'm good. Can almost hear maureen lipman saying number (7).
Are you sure that number (1) has the word "The" in it.
Don't want to spoil anyone's fun so won't post my answers. Got 8 out of 10. Number (1) I can't get as with the word "the" I don't think that it's being said by a large carnivorous cartoon animal to advertise a consumable. Number (2) I can't get at all. No probs with the others and I personally don't think that (6) is as difficult as you think as it sticks in the mind due to the carry on level double entendre humour. (Advertising that was of a time).
All the best,
Shaun.
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6. Including 6. (As Shaun says, not as hard as you think - though it may be a generation thing.)
I can't get 1, 2, 4 and 8
1 I haven't a clue on - I'd guess at one or other a couple of types of children's toy that were once popular, but guessing isn't knowing, and it wouldn't be the specific brand/model/whatever.
2 Has me completely stumped.
4 I recognise the quote, but can't for the life of me remember the context, and therefore the advert.
8 I'm sure is a song lyric - so I'm guessing the song may have been used in the advert, but beyond that - pass.
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for number 8 if I sang it (even with my miserable singing voice generally reserved only for the fast lane of the M6) you would get it straight away. It's one of those where you remember the tune more than the words. Think that I can give a clue in think about an advert with a balloon flying over wheat fields in the late 60's (might have been early 70's).
for number 4 would it help (without giving it away otherwisee might be in for a severe telling off from John) to say that someone didn't think that they would be able to take an exam.
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For number 8, given I was already sure it was a song lyric, I suspect if I heard it, all I'd remember/recognise is the song itself. Your description doesn't ring any bells at all - and your speculation on the timing could be why.
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Some clues for 8... Each makes it easier than the last
- Jacks good at sneaking around quietly
- Adipose
- Honeybus
lol. that lots a second quiz in itself to guess the link to the tune! I'll post how they link on Tuesday after Johns posted the main quiz answers.
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Number two may be too hard, as I'm not sure if it might be local to South Yorkshire, but it was the second advert I thought of. Just googled for the advert and its not on youtube, although it comes up in the autocomplete. Google I could only find a Sheffield reference. A swift month came third is a cryptic clue though.
Number one definitely has the word the in it. the pronunciation of the last word is bahounce (bounce) if that helps.
I didn't know that number six was a deliberate double entendre, but yes, that was the tale, me having a gawp to see if she was or not
Hi Vince
What do you mean you're not releasing Mrs Thatcher? That's another clue for no. 8
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I could only get 6 of them, didn't know 1,2,6 and 8 although as said by others with 8 I knew the song very well but could not remember the product (Must confess it was bugging me so I googled it)
Number 3 must be up there with one of the all time greats in British advertising campaigns, I still get reminded of it when I get my Wok out (yes I did say Wok)
All the ads I knew made me think of when I was a kid in the days of only 3 channels (my kids look at me in amazement when I tell them there was only 3 back then) and all the family would be watching TV in the evening, if we were watching ITV we would have a competition to see who could guess the advert the quickest, I obviously wasn't very good hence the 6/10 score
Thanks John for a bit of fun and a trip down memory lane
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I was stumped on the first two, although Im wondering if 1 and 6 might have a connection.
4 and 7 - we drove everyone mad using those sayings for an age, including when my Son passed his first year at Uni (he did wonder what we were on about, especially given it was Chemistry!)
5 - so true! Mrs R has it right!!
8 - I knew that one, although for some reason always think of Concorde. I saw several of the items from the advert flying in the sky in the Somerset downs recently.
Yes Vince, its a song lyric, but Shaun's last clue doesnt make it easier unless maybe the latter one is an age thing
Ah bless you John on the not knowing is a double entendre!
Wok! lol Doug - have you told your children that we all had to get up off the settee to change the channels as well? Plus do you remember the games we could play on the screen? Tennis - two lines and a dot on the screen (and that was considered big progress in those days!).
or should I say 4 lines - look what I found
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-THUXZ1aE4
Then the Atari games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M1zO2v9ixY
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I don't think the kids would believe it if I showed them those games
I had the first console was it not called a Binetone or am I getting mixed up with something else and then progressed on to the Atari which was cutting edge for the time
I did hear that Argos were selling the Atari console and games again
Starting to feel very old
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(I say 'old' rather than old because I'm working on a rewrite - albeit very slowly; I don't think I've done anything to it since uploading that video, which was almost a year and a half ago! What you see in that video is the 1994 code with first draft new graphics, knocked together in 2016.)
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Well done Janet. No. 2 must be local to Yorkshire and the North East then. We got Tyne Tees where we lived (Ripon) but I have found that both Sheffield and Leeds had one.
1 & 6 are loosely related Joanne,
3 channels hey, those were the days lol. I remember when corded remotes came out, then the infra red ones.
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3. And they peel them with their metal knives. Smash
4. Course you can Malcolm Vicks Sinex
5. All all because the lady loves Milk Tray (well apparently she prefers Thorntons now )
6. Is she, or isn't she? Harmony Hair Spray
7. You got an ology? British Telecom
8. She flies like a bird in the sky. Nimble Bread.
9. Harp stays sharp, to the bottom of the glass.
10. Tell 'em about the honey mummy. Sugar Puffs
Glad you all enjoyed it, I'll do another one for August and see if I can make it a bit harder. Sorry about question 2, I thought they were nationwide. Well done Janet, who got them all. I'm surprised question 1 stumped everyone else, I thought it was quite well known.
Here's the youtube link for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1vERQZjwFw
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not only have I never heard of the strap line for number 2. I'bve never heard of the company either!
Thanks as always for the bank holiday quiz. Your becoming something of a tradition matey... talking of which, when did the bank holiday Disneytime show stop? As a child I remember every bank holiday ou got four excerts from Disney films.
Anyway, as promised, the answers to my clues for number 8. (nimble bread)
- Jacks good at sneaking around quietly - Jack be NIMBLE
- Adipose - From Dr WHo. The fat simply walks away (Nimbles a diet bread)
- Honeybus - The original tune on which the Nimble song was based.
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I'll wait for the Thorntons to be delivered then...NEED chocolate to make it to the weekend ð
I don't remember corded remote controls. Must be before my time ð
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