Aaahhh Condor!

[nilling]

Whilst cycling through the park this morning I saw cyclist off his bike. Not wishing to defy the cycling laws of karma I asked if he was ok. It was when he turned around I realised why he had stopped - he was re-lighting his pipe!

Aaahhh Condor! Spent the rest of the trip trying to remember their TV ads

 

[Halloway]

Nice to see a gentleman enjoying a rough shag.

(copyright Stephen Fry, probably)

 

[Maz]

Aaahhh Condor! Spent the rest of the trip trying to remember their TV ads

You've just awaken some dim and distant synapse in my brain about that tag-line. It was a cigar advert, right? Still a bit hazy...

 

[CotterPin]

That Condor moment!

http://www.headington.org.uk/adverts/cigars_cigarettes_tobacco.htm

 

[nilling]

Found one...

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7lbdq9sqP4

 

[Maz]

Maybe his bike was a Condor, too!

 

[hackbike 6]

That's what I thought this thread was about.

 

[rootes]

always think it funny when you see people smoking whilst riding re health issues ..

but also it doesn't half make your fag burn quickly!

 

[hackbike 6]

Sod that.I've found it hard enough this week without the cigs.

 

[goo_mason]

As a teen I worked for a local company called Condor Self Drive - the owner named it after the pipe tobacco as he smoked a pipe constantly.

Used to enjoy winding up the customers by answering the phone by quickly saying, "Hello ? Condom Sex Drive - can I help you ?"

 

[palinurus]

I saw a great photo the other day of some guy- possibly on a trike- smoking a pipe during a time-trial (presumably a 12 or 24 hour, I can't imagine anyone doing that in a 10). I'll see if I can find it later.

 

[Maz]

As a teen I worked for a local company called Condor Self Drive - the owner named it after the pipe tobacco as he smoked a pipe constantly.

Used to enjoy winding up the customers by answering the phone by quickly saying, "Hello ? Condom Sex Drive - can I help you ?"

Did they ever realise what it was you actually said?

 

[goo_mason]

Did they ever realise what it was you actually said?

Never ! I reckon it was one of those psychological effects where they're expecting to hear something said, and so long as it's not radically different-sounding (or too phonologically divergent), they'll hear it as "Condor Self Drive" - and if they thought they heard something different, they'll convince themselves that they didn't.

 

[Maz]

Never ! I reckon it was one of those psychological effects where they're expecting to hear something said, and so long as it's not radically different-sounding (or too phonologically divergent), they'll hear it as "Condor Self Drive" - and if they thought they heard something different, they'll convince themselves that they didn't.

A bit like the P-O-L-I-T-E hi-viz!

 

[Keith Oates]

You've just awaken some dim and distant synapse in my brain about that tag-line. It was a cigar advert, right? Still a bit hazy...

This was an old cigar advert line "Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet" don't know if it's the one you were thinking of though!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!