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    head wrecking radio ads

    "go harvey,go harvey,harvey norman .
    dont even know what they do cos i always turn it off when i hear it.

    the second one is
    "isnt this the part of the show where i go down into the audience and kill some one".its an ad for ventriloquist (spell ?) david strassman?

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    Harvey Norman is one of the major disadvantages of living in Dublin, I spend so much time in the Car with the radio on that I can't help hearing those bloody things.

    That recycling/tetra-pak add with the layering of the single statement about trees overlapping drove me mad too.

    The Davod Strassman ad I don't know, but the guy is an absolute genius, so I'll forgive him.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Conor74
    I think Harvey Norman is great, especially the one in which the woman with the foreign accent calls him 'Mr. Haaaarvey'. If I lived near his shops, I'd go there every day just to see him.
    Yeah he sounds like a character.

    Go Harvey Go Harvey...now its in my head can't get it out...

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    Quote Originally Posted by the 12 th man
    "go harvey,go harvey,harvey norman .
    dont even know what they do cos i always turn it off when i hear it.
    That's a trigger for rage if I ever heard one.
    The guy must have people calling into the shop looking to give him a few slaps.

    Not an ad per se but the Weetabix jingles on Ryan Tupperware's show are equally as bad. The joy of a digital tuner with preset stations is that you can flick in an instant. Imagine being back in the old days with the manual tune wireless?
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    Quote Originally Posted by tiktok

    That recycling/tetra-pak add with the layering of the single statement about trees overlapping drove me mad too.

    because the trees we plant,outnumber the one we use,because the trees...........................an absolute cracker.

    btw what or who is harvey norman?

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    Not a radio ad, but that Squeez ad that is back on the box now is really getting on my wick. "Every Squeez pack is jumping with juice, 15 Oranges of flavour let loose", and that father and daughter combo prancing around the kitchen. The ad was around years ago, so I'd say the poor "daughter" is about 20 now, and quite ****ed off!! You'd think the "father" would have had more sense aswell!
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    Quote Originally Posted by the 12 th man
    btw what or who is harvey norman?
    homewares and elctrical goods AFAIK, does computers too. Although from the ads I wouldn't be sure, and i couldn't tell you where the shops are located...


    but if I knew....
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    Anyone hear the gift grub sketch where they were doing "celebrity death match?"Keith Wood v Harvey Norman....it was pure class. Basically Woody was beating the bejaysus outa Harvey, but it ended in Harvey putting Woody in one of his great value microwaves and blowing him to kingdom come...priceless

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    Quote Originally Posted by Conor74
    Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

    You don't know Mr. Haaarvey?

    What planet you been on for the past 6 months? It must have been lifeless, becuase Mr. Haaarvey is the life and soul of the party...

    read my first post conor.i never got to the end ......honestly ...its just so annoying.............now youve got me going.......anger management...here i come.......

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    Quote Originally Posted by the 12 th man
    btw what or who is harvey norman?
    He's an Oz version of Des Kelly sort of thing.
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    when I was in Oz I used to have to listien to Harvey bloody Norman everyday on radio and T.V I couldn't believe it when i got home to see the ****er had moved over here

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    Three particularly betes noires , all of which seem to feature heavily on Newstalk 106:

    A) Hale's (or is it Haile's?) Freight:
    "What is inevitably in life? Death? Possibly. Hale's Freight? Definitely!"


    Um, I think you got those mixed up, dude.

    B) A silence. Then a dramatic voice: "Listen."
    Pause.
    "Concentrate"
    (with a tone of urgency) "Really concentrate"
    "Something wonderful is happening 24 hours a day."
    (the listener wonders what wonderful, life-enhancing revelation is coming.)
    "William Hill Casino.com"
    It's the way he tells it. The voice is so earnest and almost pleading, you really do (even when you've heard it a couple of times before) listen eagerly. And then the let down.

    c) (actually, haven't heard this is a while)
    Voice: "Who was the second man on the moon?" (me, and most listeners I would say: "Buzz Aldrin!") Voice continues: "No one knows. Because no-one cares who comes second. At Hooke and macdonald, we come first... blah blah blah."

    This ad always strikes me as particularly ignorant. Everyone knows that Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon. Everyone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quack
    c) (actually, haven't heard this is a while)
    Voice: "Who was the second man on the moon?" (me, and most listeners I would say: "Buzz Aldrin!") Voice continues: "No one knows. Because no-one cares who comes second......
    exactly how it went for me too...
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    Quote Originally Posted by the 12 th man
    "go harvey,go harvey,harvey norman .
    dont even know what they do cos i always turn it off when i hear it.

    the second one is
    "isnt this the part of the show where i go down into the audience and kill some one".its an ad for ventriloquist (spell ?) david strassman?
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    the fact that the guy who does the voice over ( harvey )is from dublin and is a manager in the store, is even more annoying
    Ignore Max Power, he is no more, the future is Ron Burgundy. I'd love to be Ron Burgundy but they won't let me........

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quack
    Three particularly betes noires , all of which seem to feature heavily on Newstalk 106:

    A) Hale's (or is it Haile's?) Freight:
    "What is inevitably in life? Death? Possibly. Hale's Freight? Definitely!"


    Um, I think you got those mixed up, dude.

    B) A silence. Then a dramatic voice: "Listen."
    Pause.
    "Concentrate"
    (with a tone of urgency) "Really concentrate"
    "Something wonderful is happening 24 hours a day."
    (the listener wonders what wonderful, life-enhancing revelation is coming.)
    "William Hill Casino.com"
    It's the way he tells it. The voice is so earnest and almost pleading, you really do (even when you've heard it a couple of times before) listen eagerly. And then the let down.

    c) (actually, haven't heard this is a while)
    Voice: "Who was the second man on the moon?" (me, and most listeners I would say: "Buzz Aldrin!") Voice continues: "No one knows. Because no-one cares who comes second. At Hooke and macdonald, we come first... blah blah blah."

    This ad always strikes me as particularly ignorant. Everyone knows that Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon. Everyone.

    i beg to differ, i asked a month old baby that very question and it didn't have a clue of the answer........so you are wrong my good man !!!!!
    Ignore Max Power, he is no more, the future is Ron Burgundy. I'd love to be Ron Burgundy but they won't let me........

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    btw where is Harvey supposed to be going?


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    Quote Originally Posted by max power
    i beg to differ, i asked a month old baby that very question and it didn't have a clue of the answer........so you are wrong my good man !!!!!
    I challenge you to ask that baby who was the first man to walk on the moon.
    In the same way, that baby wont give a fiddlers if Hooke and McDonald come first.
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    go harvey go could be brought to the terraces.....maybe we could use it for the mean green defensive machine of gary breen....
    the radio ad that has me turning stations at the moment is that ad with one of brendan carrols shows.......some gag to do with the graveyard and all are dead...head wrecker

    btw i find harvey to be on the tad expensive side

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    Quote Originally Posted by aidz1
    btw i find harvey to be on the tad expensive side
    whatever you're into...
    do you find his shops expensive too?
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