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candlelight_2013 wrote: »

Do you remember if you bought a light bulb in Woollies they always tested it first before selling it to you?

Candlelight x

rofl - yes! and I did a Saturday girl job there for nearly two years to have pocket money while in college!
one of my embarrassing moments was on the 'lectrical' counter. we were really busy and one girl was operating the till and I (as a lowly Saturday girl) was testing the light bulbs. one old gent gave me a candle and I put it in the tester and actually pressed the button!:rotfl:I was mortified as the whole queue was doubled up laughing, so was the SA!

pollypenny

Oh, heck! Counters in Woolies! Thar seems so strange now!

I do remember Minadex too. Meant to be some super vitamin thing, I suppose?

Ches

JackieO wrote: »

P.S. Brentford Nylons had a lot to answer for with their awful bri-nylon sheets in lurid colours, My late ma-in-law once bought me a floor length nightie with a frill down the front in the most hideous shade of purple I'd only ever take it to her house when we stayed,and leave it out lying around the bedroom:):) and never wore it at home at all, it was a complete passion killer (perhaps that was the idea :):))

We had some Nylon bedding turn up at the charity shop last week which bought back some memories. Do you remember the static? we used to spark when we got into bed.....um bet that gets misconstrued.:rotfl:

ERICS_MUM

Ches wrote: »

We had some Nylon bedding turn up at the charity shop last week which bought back some memories. Do you remember the static? we used to spark when we got into bed.....um bet that gets misconstrued.:rotfl:

nah, must have been your magnetic personality !

ERICS_MUM

Does anyone remember the telly advert for Texas the diy company ? It featured a man wearing a leotard and cape (think Superman) and booming in a deep voice "Texas .......the BIG one ". It just happened that he had an enormous codpiece under his leotard, I couldn't believe my eyes. I was about 13 and had learned about "that" area of a man's anatomy in biology class but wasn't at the age when I'd actually seen an aroused man, so the ad just fired my imagination !

ERICS_MUM

telly adverts were so simple in those days, nothing like today's tecnological masterpieces.

"You wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent"

"Don't forget the fruit gums Mum"

"Murray Mints, Murray Mints, the too good to hurry mints "

The Oxo family ads, the Mum was played by a woman called Katie and the saga ran for years.

The Cointreau ad that came out every Christmas. The frenchman explaining to the beautiful english rose how the liquer was made and how to pronounce it

Remington Shavers "I liked the product so much, I bought the company" said Victor Khayam

Milk Tray ads with the man dressed all in black sneaking into the woman's bedroom and leaving a box of the chocs with a gift tag bearing his silhouette.

Milk ads "Watch out watch out, there's a Humphrey about"

Ho-hum, time for this old bird to go to bed.

OOPs just remembered the Gold Blend coffee ad, that was also a saga of a couple who met when one of them borrowed a jar from the other, their neighbour. It ran through their romance and ended when they got married.

pollypenny

When it was my turn to set a U3A quiz I did a section on these old adverts. It was very popular, unsurprisingly!

TravellingAbuela

For another trip down Memory Lane and a reminder of the tv programmes we used to watch in the 50's http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/. There are lots in the children's section I remember fondly. DH had me playing the theme tunes of his old favourites!

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pollypenny wrote: »

When it was my turn to set a U3A quiz I did a section on these old adverts. It was very popular, unsurprisingly!

We sometimes have a quiz at our monthly U3A meetings as well and the ones that are almost always answered are the advert ones :)
I suppose it was because until the start of ITV there were few adverts that folk took much notice of in the newspapers.For some unknown reasons my brother and I used to go into fits of laughter at the adverts in the papers for a cream for Hemmeroids(piles) Why it made us giggle I have no idea but to kids you always seemed to pick out daft things to giggle about.I remember him asking my Mum
"What's hemmeroids brackets piles Mum" and my Mum saying "You really don't want to know, its something you'll find out about when your a grown up." for some reason we thought it was something to do with what married people did when they went to bed :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Even now well over 60 years later sometimes when I see my beloved brother (he lives in France now ) I ask him
" Well Davy hows your hemmeroids brackets piles doing? and we both fall into fits of giggles:rotfl: :rotfl:The power that advert had over two small kids in the late 1940s has lasted

Lilyplonk

Pan-Yan Pickle - a forerunner of Branston but with a much different taste. Disappeared about 50yrs ago. Had a 'warmer taste' and less sharp than Branston.

Romantica - an Ice Cream, Meringue and Fresh Cream dessert - only seem to have disappeared around 15yrs ago. They were around before 'Roulades' started. Looks like they're still available in Ireland .