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If you are Irish and over 30 check in here for some shocking news...................

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LadySherlockofLGJ · 22/03/2006 13:02

I just couldn't believe it. Shock

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lacrimosa · 22/03/2006 13:05

what?

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LadySherlockofLGJ · 22/03/2006 13:05

Quinnsworth.

Remember their yellow packs ??

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lacrimosa · 22/03/2006 13:07

? Blush

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LadySherlockofLGJ · 22/03/2006 13:08

If you don't remember yellow packs it won't mean anything to you .

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skerriesmum · 22/03/2006 13:08

I think there's a link missing here!

lacrimosa · 22/03/2006 13:08

Oh ok sorry x

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LadySherlockofLGJ · 22/03/2006 13:09

No link missing,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,it is too good for a link. Grin

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LadySherlockofLGJ · 22/03/2006 13:09

No problem Lacrimosa ??

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LadySherlockofLGJ · 22/03/2006 13:10

No problem Lacrimosa ... even Grin

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bran · 22/03/2006 13:23

I vaguely remember yellow packs (we were always more of a Superquinn family). What's the shocking news? I didn't think Quinnsworth even still existed, weren't they bought by Tesco?

NL3 · 22/03/2006 13:24

yeah remember the yellow packs and.........

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LadySherlockofLGJ · 22/03/2006 13:24

They were bought by Tesco, but do you remember Maurice Pratt ??

He used to make my skin crawl.

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NL3 · 22/03/2006 13:25

yes, remember Maurice, quite creepy, and?

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LadySherlockofLGJ · 22/03/2006 13:26

Obviously not as dumb as he looked. Shock

Maurice Pratt has been appointed the new non-executive chairman of Bank of Scotland (Ireland).

Mr Pratt, 50, is Chief Executive of C&C Group and the former Managing Director of Tesco Ireland.

He is also a Non-Executive Director of eircom and Uniphar.

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bran · 22/03/2006 13:26

Is he the one who was all wooden in the ads? Come one, spit it out, I'm losing interest now. Did he top himself by suffocation with the yellow packaging?

skerriesmum · 22/03/2006 13:26

What about the yellow packs?! Sorry to sound thick here but I have no clue what this is about... do we have to go to Tesco/Quinnsworth to see what you mean?

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LadySherlockofLGJ · 22/03/2006 13:27

I always presumed he was the office idiot.

I had to read it three times to be sure I wasn't seeing things.

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bran · 22/03/2006 13:27

I thought he was much older than that. He must have some good contacts to get that job. I don't find it terribly shocking though, is there more?

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LadySherlockofLGJ · 22/03/2006 13:28

SkerriesMum

He used to advertise the yellow packs and he was atrocious at it.

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skerriesmum · 22/03/2006 13:28

Oh, is that it that he's the new chairman? Ohhh...

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LadySherlockofLGJ · 22/03/2006 13:28

No sorry, obviously it is just me. Blush

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NL3 · 22/03/2006 13:29

can't believe he's only 50, he must have been a child star

skerriesmum · 22/03/2006 13:29

I lived in Ireland a bit after that ad campaign I think but my dh will find it funny!

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LadySherlockofLGJ · 22/03/2006 13:30

NL3

I would have had him down for 60, obviously all that weekly gyrating on our screens ( I am cringing just thinking about it) made him look older than he was.

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NL3 · 22/03/2006 13:34

just checked the RTE website, he has aged rather better than expected....i suppose he's not thick after all then