Accrington Stanley? Who Are They?

They dropped out of the league in the 60's, however they are doing rather well in one of the lower leagues now.

"Grill em bake em fry em eat em Birds Eye potato waffles, waffly versatile (cuckoo!)"

Kid 1: Got any lemonade?
Kid 2: If you want (hands bottle of lemonade to friend and pours self glass of milk)

This is my contribution:

Way down deep in the middle of the Congo
A hippo took an apricot, a guava and a mango
He stuck it with the others
And he danced a dainty tango
The rhino said "I know, we'll call it Um Bongo"
Um Bongo, they drink it in the Congo
The python picked a passion fruit
The marmoset a mandarin
The parrot painted packets
That the whole caboodle landed in
So when it comes to sun and fun
And goodness in the jungle
They all prefer the sunny funny
one they call Um Bongo

Between Burnley and Blackburn. Should have said the other south Lancs team then.

"the walls of Birmingham, wiped clean of pea and ham, and the skirting boards of Fife have a long life, so brush in hand, decorate this land with the....best....paint" or somesuch nonsense

In the Science Museum they've got this little thing where they have a spooky concrete mould of a bloke in a living room, and on the telly they have a videoloop of adverts from around about 1985. It's been running every day since 1985 (which is when I first went) and it has never been changed. It's ace, though there's no sound. But if you hang around long enough, you do get to see this classic mid 80's Colgate ad for their then-new blue minty toothpaste, with kids playing saxophones, having wedge haircuts, doing the Madness walk - none more 80's!

You can download that advert off of TV Ark in Realmedia format. Actually, you can download loads of old TV ads from there. It's fantastic.

Someone should have had Um Bongo under the Trade Descriptions Act, as I'd be VERY surprised if they do in fact drink it in the Congo.

The Accrington Stanley milk one must have been on a lot to make it so recitable. My sister and I did it all the time too.

And did the "if you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our Club" one have a weird Wizard of Oz motif or am I misremembering?

Good Lord, the mileage I got out of that one.

..oh, yeah, adverts.

No, I do.

(sorry)

Alternatively: Fruitang- have you got the 'ang of it? If not, would you like Trevor and Simon to talk to you about it?

I remember this slogan.

We bring you milk in bottles,
We don't bring you a cow,
So please rinse and return them,
As most of you do now!

Our son Pat
is a bit nifty with a bat
ee can run in a circle as fast as a cat
when ee gets a bit hungry ee takes off his hat
to Sun Pat with 93% peanuts
ee likes a bit of dis, likes a bit of dat

lol, remember that annoying one alright.

I can never remember the whole of the Drifter ad with the jive-talkin pimp.

"Hunger gnawin' me to the bone! I'm looking for something that's crispy down the main street, [WHAT SAID HERE!?!], and dressed from top to toe in sunday best!" Clueless shopkeeper looks baffled. "Skin there young blood!" - pimp low-fives young schoolchild, causing him to drop his change all over the floor.

I'm writing a comedy/drama teen movie screenplay, the university is "Accrington University" and the local polytechnic/rival is "Accrington Stanley".

I would have used my own surroundings (Sheffield/Sheffield Hallam), but I don't particularly want to get lynched in later life when this gets produced.