BS: ...after ANOTHER commercial break

Subject: RE: BS: ...after ANOTHER commercial break
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 30 Aug 01 - 05:58 AM

British Rail adverts introduced me to Leon Redbone, for which many thanks, but I still hate their trains,under whatever brand: dirty,expensive,overcrowded and delayed. So I save money and buy Leon's CDs instead.
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: ...after ANOTHER commercial break
From: Allan C.
Date: 29 Aug 01 - 04:26 PM

Kim, a version of "Rawhide" was playing in the background of that dog food commercial

Subject: RE: BS: ...after ANOTHER commercial break
From: Deda
Date: 29 Aug 01 - 04:13 PM

There's one where a little dog is running down a street, through a neighborhood, and finally into his home kitchen, past various distractions which he blithely ignores, mumbling to himself "kibbles an' bits, kibbles an' bits, kibbles an' bits". It's quite cute, in a crass commercial sort of way. "Cibum" is Latin for food, and my students have used that commercial to remember that. (Yes, I have taught Latin.) It's always a letdown when the work of great musicians is turned to commercial use. I love Gershwin, and I'll never really forgive United (I think it was United) for appropriating Rhapsody in Blue.

Subject: RE: BS: ...after ANOTHER commercial break
From: SharonA
Date: 29 Aug 01 - 03:43 PM

Kim C: Was that the one where the dog food in the can gets branded at the end of the commercial?

More memories:
(The old commercial) "The kids.... the dog... the phone... the door! CALGON, TAKE ME AWAY!"
(There's a newer commercial for the workplace-woman that includes "The boss...")

Subject: RE: BS: ...after ANOTHER commercial break
From: Kim C
Date: 29 Aug 01 - 03:28 PM

Didn't anyboy mention the little dog chasing the chuck wagon? I don't think it had a jingle though...

Subject: RE: BS: ...after ANOTHER commercial break
From: Rowana (at work)
Date: 29 Aug 01 - 11:53 AM

Wisk detergent ran a commercial featuring an exasperated woman scrubbing her husband's collars while off camera voices taunted "ring around the collar." It so offended my thirteen-year-old self - SHE didn't get those collars dirty - that I drastically cut down on my TV time. Thirty-five years on I still don't watch much TV - and I've never bought Wisk detergent.

On the other hand, hearing Richie Havens sing "All abooooaaard Amtrak, all abooaaaaard" embodied all the romance of train travel.

Subject: RE: BS: ...after ANOTHER commercial break
From: Crazy Eddie
Date: 29 Aug 01 - 04:42 AM

I wanted to be the Milky Bar Kid!
(Sung, while kid overcomes some kind of challange/ bully)
"Oh the Milky Bar kid is strong and tough,
And only the best is good enough.
The creamiest milk, the whitest bar,
The goodness that's in Milky Bar"

Loved the ad.- shame I never liked white chocolate!

Subject: BS: ...after ANOTHER commercial break
From: Allan C.
Date: 28 Aug 01 - 08:52 PM

Amazingly enough, the previous thread was getting to be way too big, so here is a continuation.