Advertising tag-lines and slogans from the past - what can you remember?

[TheTecknician]

Here are just three:

'Course you can Malcolm.' Vicks Sinex
'A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play'. Mars bars
'The chocolate and a half.' Cadbury's Dairy Milk

Come to Marlboro country

Aaaah bisto

Maltesers melt in your mouth

Two Lancashire related ones:

"You'll only be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley"
"Accrington Stanley? Who are they?"
"Exactly."

Milk Marketing Board.

"Call Eileen Bilton on..."

Warrington Runcorn Business Park. Eileen Bilton didn't exist either, much like Sheila perfume and indeed, the book, "Fly Fishing" by JR Hartley.

Ready Brek
Central heating for kids

Toblerone. Triangular honey from triangular bee's

Ariston...and on...and on and on and on

The Tetley tea bag 'Cups are round, cakes are round, saucers are round....etc, Beach Boys tune
But normal teabags are always square'
(cue Yorkshire 11 year olds of my ilk "Tetley made em round and we don't bloody care")

Beattie "Oh...he got an 'ology?"

@Redheadedstepchild

You may know this already but they created and sold a book called Fly Fishing by J R Hartley after that ad because it became so popular.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_Fishing:_Memories_of_Angling_Days

I still remember that lovely actor "My Name?.... J R Hartley"

Marvellous! … Less fat too . - Marvel powdered milk

What has a hazelnut in every bite? … TOPIC!

Hartly. JR Hartley.

No, I'm with the Woolwich!

There's a moose, loose, aboot this hoose!

Ooohoooh hazelnuts! Cadburys take them and they cover them in chocolate!

Birdseye potato waffles, they're waffly versatile - I sing this in the supermarket, much to DDs embarrassment

I’m a secret lemonade drinker.

NUTS! Whole hazelnuts! Cadburys take 'em and cover 'em in chocolate!!!

Everyone's a fruit and nut case.

What has a hazelnut in every bite?
all together now, but the real answer is Topic😂

No idea why all mine are chocolate and nut-related.

Just looked up the JR Hartley actor and his name was Norman Lumsden (1906 -2001). RIP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Lumsden

The red car and the blue car had a race.
All red wants to do is stuff his face.

Watch out watch out there’s a Humphrey about.

Watch out, there's a Humphrey about

I'm a secret lemonade drinker

Splash it all over

(All liquid-related this time - what is my brain doing?)

"She's washing my son's shirts in lukewarm water with a plastic ball"
Ariel I think 🤔

"When it comes to sitting we leave the others standing" I think this was for DFS, fine three piece suite merchants of Doncaster.

I never quite understood how this worked as a tagline. "To leave someone standing" means that you've ran away from them, surely? It's from horse racing isn't it?

So sitting is the opposite of running away? Am I missing something?
It's a joke, I know but...

Chop chop busy busy work work bang bang

Tudes

When you've left the others standing, you win by a mile because you are better than they are. That's the gist of it really.

'Hey Lawrence, give us a pint of Harp and a packet of dates will ye'

If the lady loves milk tray.........

My mum bought that book. She truly believed it was genuine. Between her and her mate Sheila lusting after the clearly fake Australian perfume they were easily taken in.

"Did you know the word gullible isn't in the dictionary?"

Love 'em both to bits.

Fry's Turkish Deliiiiiight

Ooh Ambassador, you are really spoiling us

Who knows the secret of the Black Magic box?

Did you know Murray Walker (yes,the motor racing commentator) wrote this!!! Any Fay Weldon wrote ‘go to work on an egg’ Great copywriters!