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  1. 24-03-2018, 03:14 PM #1
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    Not sure Vintage Ads qualify-But this English ads just not right!

    Saw this in a Facebook Group this morning. Yikes, is this marketing fair? Wonder how old this is?
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    David Bellamy (no, not the hairy one from Durham) wrote the song in the late seventies and she has that sort of look.
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    You think that's cheesy, try this more recent ad for the Walther LGV (YouTube).
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    ..Above link posted with permission from Gareth W-B
    In British slang an anorak is a person who has a very strong interest in niche subjects.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Garvin View Post
    You think that's cheesy, try this more recent ad for the Walther LGV (YouTube).
    That's not cheesy, it's exactly like an afternoon at the boinger bash.

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    Smell my cheese
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    The 1981 first edition of John Walter's Airgun Book had some ads in it, at the end, including that one.
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    She resembles Kate Bush !
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    Quote Originally Posted by Garvin View Post
    You think that's cheesy, try this more recent ad for the Walther LGV (YouTube).
    Quote Originally Posted by Unframed Dave View Post
    That's not cheesy, it's exactly like an afternoon at the boinger bash.

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    Seriously ?! - not one of them in wellies either.

    Somewhere in Europe there is an ad agency laughing its head off all the way to the bank.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Garvin View Post
    You think that's cheesy, try this more recent ad for the Walther LGV (YouTube).
    Was expecting an add where LGVs are clamped by hooters but no
    I guess that Diana add was quite a think back than. Now all we see is she's not wearing bra (I think)
    How sexfocus changed/s the world
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    Not much beats the Johnson Indoor BB Rifle demo at a formal dinner,

    https://i.imgur.com/40zSJQHl.jpg
    I guess if the boys were at all accurate eventually,the lass would have felt a bit under-dressed.Oh,it's from a 1940's "LIFE" magazine...
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    Quote Originally Posted by 45flint View Post
    Saw this in a Facebook Group this morning. Yikes, is this marketing fair? Wonder how old this is?
    What is not right??
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    It's the shoes the young lady is wearing, HB

    I norticed it was an airgun advert

    but didn't really notice any airguns.
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  12. 24-03-2018, 05:55 PM #12
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    It's fair

    very fair !
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