So there I was telling my 27 year old daughter about a funny Mattessons ad on the telly, where the tag line is "You Must be Hank Marvin".
She said "is Hank Marvin a real person then"?
I had to explain....
... and do the dance.
Kids today.
I'm sure if I saw your daughter I wouldn't be thinking "kid"!!
Well how about that. Generally speaking I never knew any of the names of any backing group.
I asked a "youngster" the other day who the fourth name would be after John, Paul, and George - and they gave me the blankest, haven't a clue look!! The world is coming to the end!
Yes - I saw the ad and hadn't a clue what they were on about. Although enjoyed it. Won't after it's been on for ever, as they do. Thanks for explaining it.
Good point that Dave. The yung uns won't know who Hank Marvin was and the oldies won't know that it means 'starvin'.
I actually find that rather encouraging.
If you saw his daughter, chances are you would be thinking:
"Ow" and "So this is what the inside of an ambulance looks like"
Both true and one might think dim witted advertising excutives but are they? We are talking about their ad and I for one would probably have not otherwise been aware of it...
Just asked No.1 Daughter (15) the same question with the context of pop music. Bit of thought, "Is that the Beatles?", yes "Ringo". So the world isn't quite coming to an end yet.
Well come on then, put us out of our misery and tell.
I'd be thinking '40 years ago Id be thinking of shagging that, today it just bores me.'
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Even my Grandad at 90 managed to pull a 66 year old. And he used to put a "do not disturb" sign up on his door when she visited.
I should do advertising
Stupid boy.
There was a time me and another engineer eventually worked out why the quick about Jimmey Hendrix' modem being a purple hayes was supposed to be funny. I knew nothing about Hendix and had never heard of Purple Haze, and hen knew nothing about modems!
Needless to say, I had to put that to the test by showing the ad to wife and son. Wife has no idea Hank Marvin means starvin', and son hasn't a clue who Hank Marvin is.
Oh well - I tried son with John, George and Paul, and he knew Ringo. Not bad for an 11 year old. Bet he doesn't know the significance of 259 and
266 though :-)
But the Hank Marvin - Starvin was not known, she suggested it was mockney.
It's been used for ages in London. Not mockney, just slightly up-to-date rhyming slang.
So many references, so little time...
I caught half a dozen or so sixties classics in the pictures and probably missed a few more.
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