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Sun 07/12/03 at 21:03
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"SOUP!"
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Have you seen that "Test your smoke detectors" advert? It is perhaps the most powerful advert I have ever seen, many kudos to the director.

It goes along the lines of showing an average family and saying "Do you always forget the little things?"

- Valentines present (bloke picking up some old flowers at petrol station)
- An Umberella (Family running home in the rain)
- A bunch more stuff (Happy family scenes, la di da)
- The batteries in your smoke alarm - (man sat outside burn house in car crying)

It's one of those things that just stops you and makes you think. Yeah, so go check your smoke alarm battieries now. I dont want any of you dying on me.
Mon 08/12/03 at 16:40
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"Not a Jew"
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We don't have any batteries in the smoke alarm, the noise is quite annoying especially when things like the toaster set it off.
Sun 07/12/03 at 23:16
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"Conversation Killer"
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LOL at the advert!
Sun 07/12/03 at 23:01
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"Twenty quid."
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Microchips wrote:
> :D
Sun 07/12/03 at 22:45
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"Jog on, sunshine"
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:D
Sun 07/12/03 at 22:44
"slightlyshortertagl"
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Microchips wrote:
> http://www.visit4info.com/
> watchad.cfm?id=8156&qual=hi&type=coolad&ver=five

WTF?
Sun 07/12/03 at 21:54
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"Jog on, sunshine"
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http://www.visit4info.com/ watchad.cfm?id=8156&qual=hi&type=coolad&ver=five
Sun 07/12/03 at 21:51
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"Hellfire Stoker"
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Yeah- some dude covered sitting in a Rover 416 crying. Very powerful.

If it was an advert for Apocalypse Now, it would also be very effective.
Sun 07/12/03 at 21:42
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"Twenty quid."
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Kyz21 wrote:
> Yeah, so go check your smoke alarm battieries now. I dont want any of
> you dying on me.

My warden checks mine once a month for me, but thanks for the concern :-)

When I first saw the advert it was a shock at the end - very good and very necessary.
Sun 07/12/03 at 21:36
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"Which one's pink?"
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Erm... lovely.
Sun 07/12/03 at 21:34
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"SOUP!"
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Do you know where the term "back to square 1" comes from?

It's when football was first on the radio, the radio times issued a guise which split a football pitch up into squares and square one was the goal area so when a defender kicked it back to the keeper the radio announcer would say "back to square 1".

True story.

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