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Originally Posted by sirhamish
we're not the same person i tells ya!
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Originally Posted by sirhamish
we're not the same person i tells ya!
Ah, just "feeding the myth" aidoB/aidoM.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by aido_b
Actually, I should have remembered this. Garbally FC to "B" United to Ballinasloe FC to Ballinasloe United FC to Garbally United FC to Ballinasloe FC (again) to Dubarry Apaches FC to Creagh United to Ballinasloe Town FC. LOL
Jack Dee had a funny bit about the kind of idiot that would make that mistake between the lemon-smelling, lemon juice that comes in a little lemon-shaped container and the bathroom scourer with a picture of a bath on it - "How many pancake days were ruined...?" :DQuote:
partly because of the potential for confusion, in Britain, with the unrelated Jif lemon juice.
Ye forgot phootball.ie to foot.ie! ;)
And what was wrong with "The Examiner", not to mention "The Cork Examiner"?
Ah, better days
PS Its Newton Heath to Manchester Unitede Football Club to Manchester United Football Club PLC to Manchester United PLC to Manchester United (no FC or PLC anymore)
Seriously, was Foot.ie once called Phoootball.ie???:confused: :)
was it not phootball.com? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Troy.McClure
childrens bbc to bbc childrens!
phootball.com as stated above. It was in black and white in those days too to save on printing costs. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by sirhamish
Cheaper licence fee too to read. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Schumi
blisteze to blistex.........
and not strictly on topic but when i hear people say in relation to mk dons, that they beat liverpool in the famous fa cup final in the 80's .......... no they fuc£in didnt.
Knock Airport to IWAK. What the hell is IWAK? It really sounds like some Native American Indian tribe to me. Is Sitting Bull the CEO? Are smoke signals used to direct air traffic? Are passengers greeted by a tomtom band at the arrivals hall? Does immigration line up undesirables and shoot them with bows and arrows? Hey, all this is too sophisticated for something in the middle of a bog. Welcome to IWAK where you enter the uncivilised, backward part of the world.:D
No it was cause in the UK there was a lemon juice product also called Jif and they sued.Quote:
Originally Posted by Réiteoir
By the way Lynx Shower gel, deodorants etc is known as Axe in Continenatal Europe.
changed to Snickers which confusingly is also a brand of industrial clothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Wasn't it the Irish Examiner for a while? Until they figured out there was an inadequate distribution to justify calling themselves a national newspaper.Quote:
Originally Posted by Troy.McClure
1854 Catholic UniversityQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
1908 University College Dublin
1997 University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin
2005 UCD Dublin
That's the complete transformation, and as UCD celebrated the 150 in 2004,
I feel entitled to start there!
It's like the Jif thing though - confusing to who:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie
Not going anywhere for a while - grab some industrial workwear to satisfy your hunger! :)
Snickers do sell an energy bar called Marathon though, so there's still some merit to the old names. Likewise Choco Krispies didn't last long before the natural order was restored.
It IS called the Irish Examiner. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie
I don't know why they changed name from De paper though... :(
Spotted this in the "Said and Done" footie page in Sunday's Observer - reminds me of my footie days, dealing with PR companies.
The Franchise
Why the repeated references by Man. United executives to United as 'the franchise' in the past month? "Football club", say the designers of United's new logo, is a "redundant" term:"The old logo was dated. Our comprehensive visual audit (??????) highlighted one key change - to remove the words 'football club'. We felt these to be redundant. The result is a far simpler, more intense brand statement........"
BTW I'm not taking a cheap shot at Man. Utd. fans or the club - I'm sure the same bullsh!t is announced by sponsors of clubs in many sports.
But, as a footie fan, when I read stuff like that, a little part of me dies.
In addition, I had to type all that cr@p out as it wasn't online.
What the fcuk's a "comprehensive visual audit" when it's at home?? I have a sense of what it means but like much PR-speak, it's mutton dressed as lamb.
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Originally Posted by Troy.McClure
One of my strongest childhood memories is being sent to the shops by my grandfather to get him a Cork Examiner.
I'd say I was about 6 and I truthfully hadn't a clue what i was being sent to the shop for and would never have guessed it was a newspaper in a million years. It was quite an adventure -wondering what i might be picking up -some sort of magnifying mystical orb perhaps....:cool:
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Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie
:D :D ..
As regards Man United being called the Franchise... this is what happens when you sell your PLC to bloody Americans :D
LOL - but it was the wording of it that caught my attention - total PR-speak - sounds like something New Labour might say.Quote:
Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie
Home Farm to Home Farm Everton to Home Farm to Home Farm Dublin County Council (or something similar) to Dublin City to ....