Can anyone else remember this....

[Car53]

I used to spend wayyyy too much time on this forum back when I should have been working about a decade ago...and ingrained in my memory is always saying 'and I collect my five pounds' whenever I win an argument with anyone. Are any of you still saying that?

Edited by Car53 on Saturday 9th April 22:21

[Wacky Racer]

And I claim my five pounds.....

[Doofus]

I had a bet with my mate that somebody would be on here tonight, dredging up the past and yakking on about ancient history. It seems I was right.

AICMFP

[Some Gump]

It's from Letterbocks in Viz.

[Spare tyre]

Bloke at work says it

[Impasse]

Some Gump said:

It's from Letterbocks in Viz.

It's way older than that. I think it was a competition in The Mirror back in the 50s.

[Steamer]

I said it at the end of a post just this week, is it not cool any more?!

What's the cool sign-off now then? '.... Just saying' or some other pap?

[Rollin]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobby_Lud

[Silver Smudger]

Steamer said:

I said it at the end of a post just this week, is it not cool any more?!

What's the cool sign-off now then? '.... Just saying' or some other pap?

Cheers, the Moose

[chilistrucker]

Car53 said:

I used to spend wayyyy too much time on this forum back when I should have been working about a decade ago...and ingrained in my memory is always saying 'and I collect my five pounds' whenever I win an argument with anyone. Are any of you still saying that?

Edited by Car53 on Saturday 9th April 22:21

No idea what you're talking about? But i like the title of this topic you could be onto something
Does anyone remember a chocolate bar late 70s maybe early 80s called the Texan bar. Had some sort of cartoon advert if memory serves me right? A mans got to do, what a mans got to do....
Everybody I've spoke to about this has no idea what i'm on about at all, friends, family, swmbo, not bloody 1 of them.

[paulmakin]

i remember the texan. the bar itself was a bit overly chewy and the ad played to this - tag line was " a man's gotta chew.."

paul

[dudleybloke]

chilistrucker said:

No idea what you're talking about? But i like the title of this topic you could be onto something
Does anyone remember a chocolate bar late 70s maybe early 80s called the Texan bar. Had some sort of cartoon advert if memory serves me right? A mans got to do, what a mans got to do....
Everybody I've spoke to about this has no idea what i'm on about at all, friends, family, swmbo, not bloody 1 of them.

http://youtu.be/bzvlnkxTYQg

[chilistrucker]

Magic, ta very much folks, thought i'd lost the plot.

[northwest monkey]

Steamer said:

What's the cool sign-off now then? '.... Just saying' or some other pap?

^%^&

[Johnspex]

At least one paper in the fifties and sixties ran a competition which would involve a picture in the paper showing a vague photo of a man. The idea was that members of the public would approach a man who they thought looked like the photo and say " you are Chalkie White and I claim my £5 . The paper would say in advance which seaside town he would be in.

If you were right you got £5, if you were wrong you got a very confused bloke who read a different paper!

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Muzzer79 said:

LaurasOtherHalf said:

ApOrbital said:

The one on the left is nice.

You are Adam Johnson AICMFP

This.

Seriously - they're both, at a maximum, 15

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Lobby Lud

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Lobby Lud is a fictional character created in August 1927 by the Westminster Gazette, a British newspaper, now defunct. The character was used in readers' prize competitions during the summer period. Anonymous employees visited seaside resorts and afterwards wrote down a detailed description of the town they visited, without giving away its name. They also described a person they happened to see that day and declared him to be the "Lobby Lud" of that issue. Readers were given a pass phrase and had to try and guess both the location and the person described by the reporters. Anyone carrying the newspaper could challenge Lobby Lud with the phrase and receive five pounds (about £270 in 2016[1]).

[ApOrbital]

Cheeky monkey LaurasOtherHalf

[Steamer]

Silver Smudger said:

Steamer said:

I said it at the end of a post just this week, is it not cool any more?!

What's the cool sign-off now then? '.... Just saying' or some other pap?

Cheers, the Moose

Thats a stone cold classic!

Not seen it used for while though, how is the Moose, cheers