Memorable TV adverts The Best and Worst (add a video if you can)

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swee'pea99

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For an idea of genius simplicity delivered with effortless briliance, this one takes some beating...


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4tB6p6yGac
 
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Mad Doug Biker

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1984 kit kat ad
 
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ASC1951

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Red Light said:
A sad and stupid day when they grounded the [Concorde] fleet and destroyed the tooling so they could never fly again.:sad:
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Not as sad a day as when they started the project in the first place. Wasteful, dangerous and an entirely predictable financial disaster. A classic example of politicians believing their own hype and engineers being given a bottomless well of someone else's money.
 
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Red Light

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ASC1951 said:
Not as sad a day as when they started the project in the first place. Wasteful, dangerous and an entirely predictable financial disaster. A classic example of politicians believing their own hype and engineers being given a bottomless well of someone else's money.
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When they started the project they had an order book for 100 aircraft from 19 airlines - better than many aircraft order books at that stage of development. It was badly hit by the 1970's oil crisis which hit as it was launched. But the outcomes were probably the most iconic aircraft ever - Concord never failed to make people stop and stare when it flew overhead. It also pioneered of many technologies used in modern aircraft including fly by wire and full autopilot, and without it we probably wouldn't have a Airbus Industries today. Airbus continued the tradition of Concord from the beginning of going all fly by wire while Boeing were still using hydraulic controls from the cockpit and that is arguably one of the things that helped Airbus penetrate the market when it first started. So anything but a disaster in the big picture.
 
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Mad Doug Biker

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There was an advert I always liked from Camelot about Emmigrating.

It had the bricks of someone's house taking off (leaving a gap there the house once was) and flying in formation like a flock of birds. It showed you them resting at places and there was one that got left behind in some snow. They arrived somewhere (predictably hot) and landed in sequence to build a house again.

It was cheesy, yes, but I always loved the music on it, it made it sound like some sort of noble and trecherous quest by the bricks to get to their new home. It had nothing to do with the people, it was all about these bricks making their journey against all the odds.

Can I find this advert? Can I hell!
 
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