Friday, August 17, 2007

The Pester Power Caption

Having been deluged by literally one request for a Friday caption contest, here it is. It may be an illegal example of advertising to children from the kinder gentler world of fifties England or Norfolk as we now call it.

10 comments:

  1. Norfolk's answer to provincial cake - The Chunder Lump. (100% recyclable)

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  2. I'm glad to see someone still confects Flying Saucers!

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  3. 'Shut your f.....g gob, you meithering little sod'

    (Manchester version)

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  4. I feel I must point out that the above is an answer likely to be given by a mother to her child in only a small number of Manchester suburbs; the vast majority of mothers throughout Greater Manchester would, I'm sure, say something along the lines of "Not now dear, it would put you off your tea."

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  5. I didn't know that John Major had teamed up with Fanny Craddock and opened a toy shop in Norfolk. Well well. Is this, I wonder, an example of Fanny's marzipan slice or her nougat ripple?

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  6. Made in India (but you've spelt Mumbai wrong)

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  7. 'Aliens in pastel-coloured flying saucers will soon be arriving on our little chunk in the Milky Way, for nothing more sinister than a spot of paddling'... says man who warned of chocolate mice.

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  8. Ah, memories of my childhood in Great Yarmouth - but where is the candyfloss and sticky rock?

    Caption - how about:

    Sweet temptations - why Brown abandoned UK hols

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  9. This isn't a caption, just a question, but isn't that a Beatles' lyric, from the White Album?

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