h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

If I use all of them at once, I could hire myself out to provide the snow for nativity scenes

Our whole primary school got forced into "singing" for them. Even got advertised in the school newsletter.

Sell the deodorants to those many armed creatures from the Hitch Hiker books.
I like the Lynx ads, I see it as a p*ss take of the whole "sex sells" idea.

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Yes, that's how I take them.. There's one on here, with a young man with mositure just pissing out of his amrpits! Hilarious!

I've seen that one. He looks slightly like someone from our school. Hven't said anything cos' hes got a small fan club, ready to go "aahhh you can't say that" at the first sign of insult.

A fan club ......

...the Capital One credit cards ads get me at the moment....

There's an advert at the moment with Sharon Osborne. That's it. That's enough to be annoying and put me off a product for life. I think it's for bingo. She says she goes to bingo to wind down. I'm sure she doesn't. She uses the Phil Collins patented "I'm one of you" routine.

SHaron sbourne Did you hear about the whole Ozzfest/Iron Maiden thing.

No, wossitallabout?

While iron maiden where playing at Ozzfest, allegedly Bruce Dickinson made a joke about Ozzy allegedly using a autocue. Allegedly Sharon then got people to sit in the front row and throw stuff, like eggs, at the band and cut the sound 3 times during the gig. I say all this is what allegedly happened, cos I don't know how real what I've heard is.

Well, that's exactly what i allegedly heard too.

It caused a huge rumpas with Dickenson and his grebo's threatening to throw Teddy out of the pram.Allegedly.

Just seen an ad that is so stupid I'll avoid the product like the plague. A woman is going through her entire wardrobe (that includes drawers, by the way), getting out every item, revelling in how good it smells, then putting it on. The closing shot is the woman falling over as she tries to put on the last wonderfully fragrant sock. The product is Surf soap powder, now in a range of fragrances. It might have fabric conditioner, too, but I wasn't paying that much attention.

Hello, soap powder manufacturers. All I care about is that your product gets my clothes clean. Beyond that, I don't give a tinker's cuss. And I can get my clothes clean with the non-perfumed own-brand stuff from my local supermarket. So you can take you fragrant, fabric conditioned, aloe vera-ed (if they still do that) products and...

What exactly does George Foreman know about cooking appliances? Ever since he put his name to the 'Lean, Mean, Make Me Lovely Money!' Machines I've thought:

'Eh?'

Mind you, it could have been Anthony Worrall Thompson.

And what exactly is wrong with putting things under a grill?

Anybody seen the new Irn Bru ad with the snowman ?

In case it's only in Scotland

http://irn-bru.co.uk/snowman/index.html

Thanks for that - rather amusing. Brings back terrible memories of being stood on a stage at school aged 11.

Excellent ad! I love one with a sense of humour.

I have to admit, the old "Made in Scotland - from ghurrdhurrrs!!" tag line sprang to mind - I half expected him to slam the lad into the Forth Road Bridge...

How is that ad with the woman sniffing her clothes a bad ad? You might not care, but there are certainly people out there who will pay extra for things that make your clothes or other things smell nice.

Coo-cooo! I love the Irn Bru ads.
I think the daftest one I've seen recently is the Fairy campaign with Ainsley Harriot. I know you need the money, man, but pleeeeeeeeease!
I also love the new Guinness ad. With the little man in the fridge. Although I do feel sorry for him in the end.
Another one that gets me is the ad for Ly*x, and their entire line of products, which features a man holding the hands of two women. If the loser in that ad is Joe Average, as far as Ly*x are concerned, he has no chance in hell with anyone, no matter what deodorant he puts on.

"How is that ad with the woman sniffing her clothes a bad ad?"

It's not the sniffing clothes that makes it bad. If you read my posting carefully, you'll see that I mention that she not only smells her clothes, she puts them on. Perhaps I should have been more specific. She puts all her clothes on *at the same time*. By the end of the ad, she's wearing every item she's got, looking something like the Michelin man. She falls over trying to put the last sock on as well. *That's* what makes it bad - the idea that *anybody* would put on all their clothes at once, just because they smell nice.