walkers crisp advert

[weewillie]

check this out and turn on your speakers

https://www.visit4info.com/preview-flash.cfm?vm=0&type=3&adid=49463

 

[aerog]

That's muddy marvelous!

 

[weewillie]

I hope this is not classified as a "dirty" advert lol

 

[Nunyas]

seems broken'ish?

 

[DrEntropy]

We pro'lly hammer'd it. Worked here just now. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif

 

[bugimike]

Now, with another Walker's product I could really say " 'ere's mood in yer oye!" /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cheers.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif

 

[tony barnhill]

love the piano in the tractor - & I want one of those vests!!

 

[Steve]

Okay, this one is for the Brits. Recognise the guy in the black suit? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

 

[Steve]

Extra points if you are of any other nationality and get his name right........ /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif

 

[aerog]

Everyone knows he's Muddy Johnston!

 

[weewillie]

gary lineker

 

[Steve]

gary lineker

I knew you'd get it! Looking old, isn't he? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif

 

[weewillie]

almost as old as vinnie jones lol

 

[DrEntropy]

"It's CLIFF!!"

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[solsticeman2]

That's what I love about you Brits - you're so bloody honest. "Bloody"? Now I'm talking like you! That's what happens when you've been married to a Brit for 3 years....

-Randy-

 

[ecurie_ecosse]

Wot's the prize fer gessin the original song,singers and or composers?? An where's the hippo?? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif

Stuart. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cheers.gif

 

[Steve]

Wot's the prize fer gessin the original song,singers and or composers?? An where's the hippo?? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif

Stuart. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cheers.gif

Sir Ian Wallace, the opera singer, recorded a version. But I believe that the original was by Flanders and Swann. Or does it predate even them?

 

[Steve]

No, I got it!!!


The Hippopotamus Song
A bold hippopotamus was standing one day
On the banks of the cool Shalimar
He gazed at the bottom as he peacefully lay
By the light of the evening star
Away on the hilltop sat combing her hair
His fair hippopotami maid
The hippopotamus was no ignoramus
And sang her this sweet serenade
Chorus:
Mud, mud, glorious mud
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood
So follow me follow, down to the hollow
And there let me wallow in glorious mud
The fair hippopotama he aimed to entice
From her seat on that hilltop above
As she hadn't got a ma to give her advice
Came tiptoeing down to her love
Like thunder the forest re-echoed the sound
Of the song that they sang when they met
His inamorata adjusted her garter
And lifted her voice in duet

Now more hippopotami began to convene
On the banks of that river so wide
I wonder now what am I to say of the scene
That ensued by the Shalimar side
They dived all at once with an ear-splitting sposh
Then rose to the surface again
A regular army of hippopotami
All singing this haunting refrain

Chorus

(Extra verse
The amorous hippopotamus whose love song we know
Is now married and father of ten,
He murmurs, "God rot 'em!" as he watches them grow,
And he longs to be single again!
He'll gambol no more on the banks of the Nile,
Which Naser is flooding next spring,
With hippopotamas in silken pyjamas
No more will he teach them to sing...

Chorus

Flanders & Swann

 

[ecurie_ecosse]

Not sure if it predates Flanders and Swann. I just remember the song from Children's Favourites on Saturday mornings.

I did think they had actually written the thing as well as "I'm a Gnu".

Stuart. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cheers.gif

 

[Steve]

"It's CLIFF!!"

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No, Cliff never gets older! And he can sing!