Power of advertising

Just wondered if it was worth a general thread on power of advertising. On the way to work this morning, Terry Wogan played the Drifters - Come on over to my place. What did i sing? "Hey you, we're having a Wimpey!"

How long ago was that advert on TV, and who else instintively sins the altered words? its almost a "I'm a Cadbury's fruit and nutcase moment".

I'm sure someone can work out the return on money spent on the original ad.

Discuss?

The advert only worked if you then decided you wanted to buy a hamburger, and a Wimpey one at that, otherwise it was just a good jingle.

I occasionally whistle the R.Whites Lemonade advert when i see one in a shop somewhere. Yes they still make it! Even though i wasn't actually born when the advert came out!

I saw the moon the other day and got a craving for Jaffa Cakes.

I used to feel like a kit kat everytime I got the bus home from town - then one day I noticed a huge poster advertising kit kat just across from the bus stop.

Derren Brown showed how poster advertisments work subliminally in one of his shows (where he got some advertising types to 'think up' an image for an advert, but in fact everything they came up with they'd already seen on posters and drawings planted by Brown for them to see from their taxi on route to their office).

Presumably TV advertising works the same way - ie, subliminally. Even though there are supposed to be laws to stop it being subliminal...

Full Moon..............Half Moon.......................Total Eclipse........OK one more time.

Hope you didn't look like one too, or that would be most odd

Hey, there's nothing wrong with looking like a kit kat! I'm just tall and brown, that's all! And split into four easy break-off segments...

i could make some joke in poor taste about getting 4 fingers in a kit kat, but I wont...