Comments on: THE ADVERT CALENDAR OF ADVENT: 5: Woolworths http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:18:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Marcello Carlin http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/#comment-110403 Marcello Carlin Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:36:47 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/#comment-110403 except it was Joe Brown and the BRUVVERS except it was Joe Brown and the BRUVVERS

]]> By: Pete Baran http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/#comment-110268 Pete Baran Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:09:02 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/#comment-110268 I love the internet. EVERYTHING IS HERE!!! I love the internet. EVERYTHING IS HERE!!!

]]> By: Chriddof http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/#comment-109242 Chriddof Wed, 06 Dec 2006 01:04:01 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/#comment-109242 Mike Reid-alike: Joe Brown, of skiffle band Joe Brown and The Brothers. And you can download that very ad from the link below, albeit as an shitty RealVideo encode: http://tv.cream.org/christmas/chrisday2.htm (the link is "Woolies 1983 Music") Mike Reid-alike: Joe Brown, of skiffle band Joe Brown and The Brothers. And you can download that very ad from the link below, albeit as an shitty RealVideo encode:

http://tv.cream.org/christmas/chrisday2.htm

(the link is “Woolies 1983 Music”)

]]> By: Kat http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/#comment-108598 Kat Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:06:38 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/#comment-108598 Was he? That makes more sense then. I meant to check that but forgot. Oh well. Was he? That makes more sense then. I meant to check that but forgot. Oh well.

]]> By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/#comment-108599 pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:06:38 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/#comment-108599 also: political cartoonist thomas nast invented modern santa (during the <a href="http://www.sonofthesouth.net/Thomas_Nast/Thomas_Nast_Santa.jpg" rel="nofollow">US civil war</a>) and drew his to resemble <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cole" rel="nofollow">sir henry cole</a>, who invented the xmas card also: political cartoonist thomas nast invented modern santa (during the US civil war) and drew his to resemble sir henry cole, who invented the xmas card

]]> By: Pete Baran http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/#comment-108534 Pete Baran Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:31:48 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/#comment-108534 Er, Frank Woolworth was American. My nan reminiscese about Pick'n'Mix false teeth in Woolies during the Blitz. Er, Frank Woolworth was American.

My nan reminiscese about Pick’n'Mix false teeth in Woolies during the Blitz.

]]> By: Tim http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/#comment-108502 Tim Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:11:47 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/#comment-108502 Two things which stick in my mind from one early 80s Woolies wobs ad which was majoring on the music department (NB if I was one of the young people I'd find this on YouToob or somesuch but I'm not so NER): 1) the voiceover (which I remember being delivered by some Mike Reidalike (as in Frank Butcher not the Cliffish DJ)) being an awful kind of demi-rap so popular back then, two lines of which went "Seven and the Ragged Tiger / Duran Duran" I don't think I've once seen a copy of that LP without the phrasing used in the ad going through my mind. This means I have walked around approximately 27 grillion boot sales and Oxfams with that ad in my head. 2) The smiling, wholesome looking pre-adolescent girl who picks up a vinyl copy of "Raw Power" from the Woolies racks and passes it to her Mum. Two things which stick in my mind from one early 80s Woolies wobs ad which was majoring on the music department (NB if I was one of the young people I’d find this on YouToob or somesuch but I’m not so NER):

1) the voiceover (which I remember being delivered by some Mike Reidalike (as in Frank Butcher not the Cliffish DJ)) being an awful kind of demi-rap so popular back then, two lines of which went
“Seven and the Ragged Tiger /
Duran Duran”

I don’t think I’ve once seen a copy of that LP without the phrasing used in the ad going through my mind. This means I have walked around approximately 27 grillion boot sales and Oxfams with that ad in my head.

2) The smiling, wholesome looking pre-adolescent girl who picks up a vinyl copy of “Raw Power” from the Woolies racks and passes it to her Mum.

]]> By: CarsmileSteve http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/#comment-108477 CarsmileSteve Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:02:48 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/#comment-108477 dude, the germans invented LOADS o' xmo, trees in partic. came here via Prince Albert (stop sniggering at the back) dude, the germans invented LOADS o’ xmo, trees in partic. came here via Prince Albert (stop sniggering at the back)

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