Comments on: Great bevvy ads of my youth, part two http://www.completetosh.com/weblog/2009/03/08/great-bevvy-ads-of-my-youth-part-two/ by Neil McIntosh Wed, 04 May 2011 13:45:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Learning good journalism, Scottish, Twitter and swears - Scottish Roundup http://www.completetosh.com/weblog/2009/03/08/great-bevvy-ads-of-my-youth-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-96298 Learning good journalism, Scottish, Twitter and swears - Scottish Roundup Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:57:42 +0000 http://www.completetosh.com/?p=1091#comment-96298 [...] Neil McIntosh takes a look back at another great bevvy ad of his youth. [...] [...] Neil McIntosh takes a look back at another great bevvy ad of his youth. [...]

]]> By: scottdouglas http://www.completetosh.com/weblog/2009/03/08/great-bevvy-ads-of-my-youth-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-93307 scottdouglas Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:57:26 +0000 http://www.completetosh.com/?p=1091#comment-93307 Awwww - that camus-esque McEwan's ad is absolute magic. I had totally forgotten that - so thanks for the reminder! Amzingly, it must be 20 years since I last saw it, yet seeing it again it could have been yesterday it was so fresh. Just a shame the lager was awful. I seem to recall I was a young hack on the Evening News in Edinburgh around the time this ad came out and it got quite a lot of media coverage. Not as much, though, as the "chinheads" ad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpF5AnWNhgg which is of similar vintage. I think this got a lot of coverage in the News because the tune was by an Edinburgh-based boy band. I'm off now to drink myself into stupor. Cheers Awwww – that camus-esque McEwan’s ad is absolute magic.

I had totally forgotten that – so thanks for the reminder!

Amzingly, it must be 20 years since I last saw it, yet seeing it again it could have been yesterday it was so fresh. Just a shame the lager was awful.

I seem to recall I was a young hack on the Evening News in Edinburgh around the time this ad came out and it got quite a lot of media coverage.

Not as much, though, as the “chinheads” ad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpF5AnWNhgg
which is of similar vintage.

I think this got a lot of coverage in the News because the tune was by an Edinburgh-based boy band.

I’m off now to drink myself into stupor.

Cheers

]]> By: Andrew McCormick http://www.completetosh.com/weblog/2009/03/08/great-bevvy-ads-of-my-youth-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-93305 Andrew McCormick Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:56:20 +0000 http://www.completetosh.com/?p=1091#comment-93305 I have to say I feel like that at least once a week. One day I'll have the balls to do it. That combined with there being some decent media jobs in the homeland. Cracking ad though. Was young at the time but remember it vividly. I have to say I feel like that at least once a week. One day I’ll have the balls to do it. That combined with there being some decent media jobs in the homeland. Cracking ad though. Was young at the time but remember it vividly.

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