YES!!! The "I'm so happy" thread. 2009

[maggiepie]

Anthony,
Collingwood History
Established in 1892, the Collingwood Football Club is the biggest and most famous sporting club in Australia.
You either love them or hate them, most hate them
Australian Rules Football.
I do believe there have been matches played with various AFL teams against Gaelic Football players, but I can't remember the details.

[Anthony Darby]

Thanks Helen. Sounds a lot more exotic than being a Huddersfield Town follower.

[Judy Wall]

Just received my seeds from various seed exchanges, got some choice stuff, the sun is shinning, even though it is cold at -20c here in Canada. I love starting seeds and watching them grow & develop into some of the most amazing plants. Isn't nature wonderful........
...........call me addicted to seeds.....oh well it's harmless and it is great fun.......and it fills the Jan/Feb blahs during winter in Canada ah.

[maggiepie]

Anthony, what tune is this sung to?
There's a team that's dear to it's followers
Their colours are bright blue and white
They're a team of reknown, they're the talk of the town
And the game of football is their delight

The lyrics aren't as bad as Good old Collingwood forever.......

[Maggi Young]

Hi, Judy! You're right, there's nothing like the arrival of some seeds to boost the gardener's morale ....so long as, with minus 20 you're not reduced to burning the seeds on the fire for heat! Hope it doesn't come to that, eh?     Forst never really lifted here today, but it was so bright and sunny nobody checked what the actual temperature was!

[Maggi Young]

Thanks Helen. Sounds a lot more exotic than being a Huddersfield Town follower.

 That reminds me of an old TV advert....think it was for milk......two small boys, just in from playing football  are sitting at kitchen table, glasses of milk and sandwiches laid out.....first child isn't drinking his milk..... second child says, "you'd better drink up, or you'll end up playing for Accrington Stanley"
......." Who?" says the first
....... "Exactly!" says the second   

[maggiepie]

Maggi, change the names and I know who you mean

[ranunculus]

How topical, Maggi,
My son-in-law went to watch Acci' play Barnet today (1-1) ... he is a Birmingham supporter really but intends to visit as many league grounds as possible (just as I did when I followed first Brighton and then Bolton all over the country, until the day I felt a small brick hit the back of my head as we left Rotherham's ground after a fine away win) - only been to a football ground twice since then.

... And before somebody says something (Diane); the bump on the head probably DOES explain a lot!!  

[Maggi Young]

Just went rootling to see if I'd spelled the Stanley part correctly... found news story about Acci's goal-keeper arrested with Steven Gerrard for assault on a barman, and guess what else it said in the newspaper report.............
"It  (Accrington Stanley) is perhaps best known for being name-checked in a celebrated British milk advert from the 1980s.

The scene was between two boys with thick Liverpudlian accents dressed in Liverpool football shirts who were looking for something to drink after a game of football.

They opt for milk on the advice of former Liverpool player Ian Rush, believing it will help them to play for a better team than Accrington Stanley."

[ranunculus]

[Casalima]

I love that Akhrington/ezakhly 

Chloë
about as (ex-)Thames Valley as you can get, and still amazed by some British accents new to my ears ...

[Maggi Young]

I love that Akhrington/ezakhly 

Yes,  it's a great accent..... well done to Cliff for finding the ad on you-tube.... it's terrific to hear it with the voices ..... don't know where I'd got the sandwiches from in my memory of it ....could be I'm a little peckish.....

Isn't it extraordinary what you can find on you-tube? I said as much to someone the other day and she said, oh no, you won't find that there, it's from years ago  ..... but I went searching, and there it was !
And now I remember who it was.... it was the Wily Wifey, about a series of Toyota adverts that ran in NZ !

[maggiepie]

Isn't it extraordinary what you can find on you-tube? I said as much to someone the other day and she said, oh no, you won't find that there, it's from years ago  ..... but I went searching, and there it was !

Yep, it is Maggi, now look what you made me do!!
Anthony, here's some highlights from Collingwood's 2007 season.

[Lesley Cox]

And now I remember who it was.... it was the Wily Wifey, about a series of Toyota adverts that ran in NZ !

Were these the "b****r" ads Maggi? I remember at the time someone complained to the TV Broadcasting standards Authority about the "B" word and wanted the ads removed. The Authority said they were quite acceptable in a cultural context or words to that effect but that their presence in a TV ad shouldn't be taken as any kind of precedent or as an indication that the word was acceptable in every day conversation. Of course immediately EVERYONE used the word in every possible way and place and it appeared in many advertisements, on the backs of SUVs and just about everywhere. I believe the offending dog died some time ago.

[Maggi Young]

Those are they, Lesley... and very funny they are.... if you search youtube for Toyota car ads New Zealand you find them, also lots of other Toyota ads from other countries ( not the UK, though   ) and there are some funny ones there, too. Don't know wht we didn't get funny ads here..... best ads we've had for years , though they've stopped now,  were for Buweiser beer and "starred" a pair of chameleons, one of one berated his chum  with.. "you're a sick lizard, Louis".... they were superb adverts... works of  animated art and humour, but sadly, they never made us buy the beer.... perhaps that's why they took them off air??!!  

    ....  Louis, you are one sick lizard


  .... a compilation