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Thread #52618 Message #2349825
Posted By: Rowan
27-May-08 - 01:13 AM
Thread Name: Jingles you remember.
Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
And now, returning to south of the equator, Sidchrome were the NAME brand of spanners until they got taken over 25 (or so) years ago. I can now only remember the first part of their jingle. In Oz accents it is;
Oh ya canna hand a man a granda spanna
than a Sidchrome,
than a Sidchrome
....
Perhaps someone will remember the rest.
Mortein (purveyors of flyspray) used to have a tag line "When you're on a good thing, stick to it!" and they also did a musical skit on Looie the Fly but I can't bring it to mind.
Tarzan's Grip was a popular adhesive sold in squeeze tubes (like toothpaste) and the ads had a tag line "Get a tube of Tarzan's Grip, the stuff that sticks!" which us smutty-minded schoolkids modified to "Get a grip of Tarzan's tube, the stick that stuffs!"
Sigh!
Cheers, Rowan