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By Sanjay
#100386
Ok, the Halifax adverts (their "chart song" parodies")<P>Utter Stupidity? <br>Good for a laugh?<br>OR<br>Brilliant Idea?<P>Personally, it's a bag of wan* (not leaving much to the imagination there!) - and they frankly........ SUCK!
By Guest
#100390
damn right ben.<br>i like the fact he has been reviewing for so long, and so well i might add(my tongue's all brown) , yet he's so reserved in posting.<P>learn mrs m, learn.<br>
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By Ben_Jammin
#100392
...you honestly make me physically sick<p>[This message has been edited by Ben Jammin (edited 12 June 2001).]
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By Uglybob
#100393
which one was the worst <P>the black guy sexbomb<br>the woman livin la vida too much porka<br>the jeremy spake doing who lets the dogs out
By the_dr
#100395
I think they are the work of genius. Look past the shallow facade of the song parody and you will discover true meaning. Who, indeed gives you extra? God - perhaps, or maybe yourself since, as Marx once said, "God is the essence of man". You are the only being that can truely 'give yourself extra', to reward yourself. You may well laugh at their common man appearence (i.e. Jeremy Spake look-a-like) - but look past that and you see a clever marketing stragety. These 'singers' are infact real workers from real banks (one is from 'Sheldon branch' - my surname!), or 'real people' as patronising politcians put it. By using these 'real people' Halifax are saying to you 'you can look as stupid as them'.
By Guest
#100399
These adverts aren't annoying. Not when you compare them to Claims Direct ones. And debt management adverts. And Loans. And any advert on a commercial radio station. Whoever put Leicester Sound on at work is going to die!!!!!!<P>Paul.
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By Sanjay
#100401
Ok u got me there - Claims Direct - the one with the bloke watching the footy match?  KISS THE WOMAN - watch it closely he moves close to her and moves away.<P>Those adverts and companies is an adults version of the toothfairy eh?<P>Deliberately injure yourself and screw the company for all its worth!  :)
By the_dr
#100402
"Where theres blame, theres a claim".<P>Chris: I doubt that he's a professional singer, so that leaves him being either a real employee or an actor employed to be real.<P>Gaspode: Here is my Stan parody (sticky - you've already seen it). It seemed everybody else had done one: Moyles, Shirehorses, xfm so I'd better get in on the act. Please bear in mind that this was for my history class, a non-Moyles listener audience - so yes - I did rip off some of his rhymes. I performed this infront of my class dressed as Eminem. My friend Adam (a.k.a. the_dr's pal a.k.a. slaphead69k or whatever) was supposed to perform this with me - but he's a chicken so he didn't. It's simple called "Fred".<P>[Daniel as Fred Engels]<br>Dear Marx, I sent my application form to be a Communist,<br>I hope you got it or I'll be well p***ed.<br>Maybe the letter has been intercepted - by the french cops,<br>I haven't tested - but I heard they are the tops.<br>but anyways; fudge it, whats been up? man hows your asocciation?<br>I heard you had some trouble in France - you had to leave the nation<br>I had some trouble too,<br>I had to be extradited - but I told 'em they could bite it.<br>I know you probally hear this everyday, but I'm your biggest fan,<br>I even got that underground s**t you did with the Doctors, that s**t was the bomb,<br>I understand what youre saying in your books - i see where youre coming from.<br>Man, when you talk about religion being the opium of the people,<br>and all people being equal - that's hot s**t man.<br>anyways, gotta go to psychiatrist now, to sort out my head,<br>write back soon, <br>This is Fred.<P>[Dido: chorus]<P>[Daniel as Fred Engels]<br>Dear Marx, you still ain't called or wrote<br>what's going on? I've been thinkin' that I've done somethin' wrong,<br>If you didn't want to talk to me outside your Working Men's meeting, you didn't have to<br>but you could have signed a Communist Manifesto for my little brother man, <br>he's only 6 years old, he's waited all his life to meet a phillosopher like you,<br>and you just said no, thats pretty sh**ty man - you're like his fudgin' idol<br>man, when I read your book Capital  - I just couldn't resist<br>shouting it out of my window, to get the capitalists p***ed<br>My wife thinks I'm strange, I talk about you all the time<br>I can't wait to meet you Karl, when you come round to mine.<br>Hey, remember when we met in Brussels,<br>and I told you about the industrial revolution, and all the pollution,<br>you said if i wrote to you, you would write back - see i think like you too.<br>I wanna overthrow this capitalist system too, <br>ever since Germany got mucked up,<br>I've seen this world for what it is - fudged up worse than my wife is.<br>I heard about you in Uni too, I won't go round tellin' everybody, cos you'll get in deep poo,<br>All I'm gonna say is you were a bit of a rebel - fighting, drinking and you got arrested - man, you did the treble.<br>You gotta write back to me,<br>I'm going for a pee, and then to bed<br>Sincereley yours, Fred<br>P.S. - we should write a book together too<P>[Dido: chorus]<P>[Daniel as Fred Engels]<br>Dear Mr I'm-Too-Busy-Writing-Manifestos-To-Write-To-My-Fans,<br>You big, fat, communist mother-hubard<br>I've been sending you letters and money for six months now,<br>why ain't you been writing back, you fat lazy cow<br>You think you're influential, you ain't, you're just f**kin' mental.<br>I seen you at the pub spending my money on double whiskeys,<br> I hope your wife slaps you in the face when you try get frisky<br>You ain't wrote back man, that crime is heinous<br>I hope the debt collectors cut off your tiny (p**is)<br>If you try to give me another copy of the Communist Manifesto, I'll tell you where to go.<br>You said "Workingmen of all countries unite!", <br>Man, thats just a big pile of s**te.<br>All my life I thought you were right, you were the one to show me the light<br>I gave you money when things were tight, I even let you stay the night.<br>But then it clicked, you weren't the boss, <br>you were just a stuck up little pr**k.<br>All I wanted was some advice, but you couldn't stop meddlin'<br>Hey, Marx, I hope you liked those debt collectors I sent to KICK your head in.<br>Hey shut up b**ch and keep on peddlin'<br>Sorry Karl, that's your mentor, Bruce Bauer, going side saddle<br>I found him last night, so I'm taking him for a paddle<br>So Marx,  it seems you're s**t out of luck<br>you can shove Communism up your ass you fat (f**k)<br>(splash, underwater)<P>[Dido: chorus]<P>[Adam as Karl]<br>Dear Fred, I meant to write you sooner<br>but I've been busy, all this economics makes me quite dizzy<br>I'm flattered that you talk about me all the time<br>saying what you believe is never a crime.<br>I'm glad you like my books, but in my old age I'm unable to write,<br>Now you're left with this capitalist s**te.<br>I have come up with one thing though - the link between god and money,<br>Using religion to control the public isn't funny.<br>Power to the people and none of the rest,<br>Anyway.. I Digress, All this stress - it's getting to me, I'm not at my best.<br>I'm happy now with my wife Jenny,<br>Even though we don't have a penny.<br>Most of my children have died, in my tiny inner-city semi<br>My wife started to cry, I started to itch,<br>I told her "Sit down you fat ugly b**ch". <br>After I cease to exist, I hope I will be missed,<br>If I'm not, I'll be well p***ed - fighting for what's right was never bliss.<br>There was this one guy, on the front page of the paper who was a Communist,<br>He rode this bike into a river, late one night.<br>On the back he had Bruno Bauer, <br>and in the basket there was a letter, <br>but it didn't say who it was to,<br>come to think about it was... it was you.<P>Damn.<br>
#100404
Political Parodies?? the future of the moyles show....... maybe not.  Dr you should have released that cos its up there with Cliff Richard's Millenium Prayer with the all time greats.  Maybe could be Labour's next tune although that might mean them using that nasty socialism word (things can only get better..........isnt that song ironic four years on).<p>[This message has been edited by Gaspode The Wonder Dog (edited 14 June 2001).]
By the_dr
#100405
Admittedly a bit high-brow for Moyles' shows and thanks for the compliments. Maybe the Chinese Communist party should adopt it as their anthem to soften their image.<P>And personally I think things have got better under this government - certainly better than they would have under a Tory (urgh!) government. Just imagine Ann Widecome being Prime Minister. It's like dream.<P>the_dr

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