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(Photo taken by Andi of Outline magazine) The doors had only been open for 30 minutes on Tuesday evening and many people were still fil... -
On my regular journeys up and along the A12, A14, A140 and M11 in the 1980's, travelling to concerts in London and the East of Englan... -
Over the past few weeks, a succession of time and brain-space constraints did their utmost to put the kibosh on my attempts to pull toget... -
A couple of weeks ago, I dragged my tired old bones off to catch the great Richard Dawson in concert. Long suffering readers of this blog... -
To the anonymous strangers on the surrounding tables in the cafe we probably looked like two old friends having a long overdue catch-up o...
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Some questions spring to mind:
1. Who on earth thought of using Scratch to sell Guinness?
2. Where was this ad ever shown?
3. Di it increase sales?
4. What music do the good folk at Guinness listen to?
5. Where can I get a nice cool Guinness right now?? Shame I've stopped drinking!
The guy who pitched the idea to the Guinness board of directors must have had magnificently honed powers of persuasion to get it approved. God knows what they thought when they saw the footage!
Online dictionaries should dispense with definitions beneath the word 'surreal' and henceforth just post this clip by way of explanation.
Well I hope he made some good money out of it and a free supply of the black stuff!!
Inspired!
I feel like I've just entered some topsy turvy parallel universe (many, many degrees out..) watching those. Wacky. But, next to red wine, Guinness is my drink of choice so it gets my seal of approval anyway!
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