QuoteIt's a cropped version of Rudyard Kipling's 'If'.
I have to say, i aint a fan but the Vodafone GAA advert is very good.
Who wrote it does anyone know?
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings -- nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run --
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And -- which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son!
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
It's a cropped version of Rudyard Kipling's 'If'.
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Yeah, just got there there -> Full versionOriginally Posted by noby
Have to say its a great idea and works really well. I dunno will i run out and buy a Vodafone product as a result but its a good advert.
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
Think that ad is awful myself. That poem is incredibly over-used.
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
I honestly think it's the most twee advert on telly, really vomit inducing stuff
I like the new Hovis ad on UK telly. The one where the young lad runs home through the town with the loaf of bread as the background changes from Victorian times to the present. Very well done I think. OK they still can't resist putting in a 1966 World Cup bit, but well done all the same.
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any Guinness add!!
Whatever about his poetry... he makes exceedingly good cakes
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I always felt that the chauvinism the GAA have expressed against non-Irish influences. They should not be allowed use any culture from outside Ireland. Whether that be from India or whereever.
I havn't seen the new ad.
Hovis benefit a little from the memory that Ridley Scott directed one (trilogy?) of ads reminising on begone ages. Sypia(sp?)-coloured ads showing a lad wheeling a bike up a hill, free-wheeling down and accompanying commentary.
For me the new ESB ad 'Green World/ We aspire to Greenness' is noteworthy because it uses the James Taylor Classic 'I think I'm going back...'. ESB made an Ireland hit of this in the early-nineties showing a young man being collected by his father and he seeing the memories of his childhood.
Not as popular as the Bord ná Mona tune with the briquettes and the violin and the fireplace. Foreign Title (can't remember it).
" I'll go right up to here,
it can't possibly hurt.
All they will find is my
beer and my shirt."
Find the ad kind of ironic myself. The GAA quoting writtings from one to the biggest British imperialist and supremacist of all time to promote a game that they also promote being a part of the Irish culture.
Surely there are plenty of Irish poets or writters they could of used instead.
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The Marino Waltz, by The Dubliners - hardly that foreign.
No. No. No. The Christmas ad with the dray horses is a classic. The rest are mainly muck.
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I think he came to regret it in later life, probably due to the fact his 'beloved son' was killed in the Great War - (in the Irish Guards or some other regiment i think) and came to realise that war/conquest wasnt like a game of cricket.
But he certainly was an anti home rule, pro empire etc
All other ads pale into insignificance in comparison to the voiceover on the Head and Shoulders ad featuring Jason McAteer.
"If there's one thing Jason won't tolerate - its problem hair".
Mass Genocide - That's fine.
Problem Hair - Now stop right there, Scumbag!!!!
Quoting years at random since 1975
Do the Shake n Vac and put the freshness back.
'Fascists dress in black and go round telling people what to do, where as priests.....'
a very old beamish ad, "sound man brendan" comedy genius, cant seem to find it anywhere though, all i know is it was on reeling in the years a few weeks ago
Any add for Stella beer.This one is great i think,in the classic silent movie type way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciVWoaqvhlE
'A pint of Harp and a packet of dates please'...
Must find that one... if they do ever ban beer adverts, that would be a shame, they're normally the best adverts.
'Fascists dress in black and go round telling people what to do, where as priests.....'
I saw an ad for Fruice today which was pretty funny. It was basically a bottle Fruice who's going around hooking up with all these different fruits.
I think the tag-line was: "Fruice: It goes with anything."
Gave me a giggle anyway.
Definitely. I've heard it in everything from the Simpsons to a Nas video.
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Decent variation on it in this advert for Football Manager 2008;
http://fm08.footballmanager.net/en/a.../101/1692.html
The Cadbury's ad was genius the first time, but it's been let down badly with the second version, which leads you to believe they've actually done a string of them featuring '80s power ballads with a quiet bit followed by some strenuous thumping. What next, Power Of Love by Jennifer Rush?
Better variation from Alan Partridge: "Like the Rudyard Kipling poem, 'If'. You know that? 'If' you do X, Y and Z, Bob's your uncle."
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