Tag Archive | "adverts"

Super peanut butter

Monday, January 17, 2011

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Sean Kleefeld points us to this wonderfully rubbish old TV commerical (what is it, 70s?) for “Superman brand Peanut Butter”. Not what you’d call a subtle form of advertising to modern eyes and Sean’s right, that has to be one of the lamest flying-off attempts anyone’s ever done with the Man of Steel! I do [...]

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Come as you are…

Thursday, September 2, 2010

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It used to be that all of Gaul was conquered by the Romans.  All of Gaul ?  No, one little village in the North-West of the country managed to take a stand against the foreign conquerer, relying on their own traditions and a healthy diet of wild boar, washed down with a dash of magic [...]

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Mighty Time Lord computing

Monday, December 7, 2009

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The Cynical C blog points us towards this set of classic adverts from the early days of personal computing with Tom Baker’s Doctor and Lalla Ward’s Romana selling us the latest in digital technology (hey, anyone remember the ‘paperless office’ promises of the early and mid 80s?). I’d completely forgotten about these, they were probably [...]

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