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[challenge entry] um bongo

EDIT: Damn, I forgot Zaire

From the If Ads Told The Truth challenge. See all 454 entries (closed)

(I helped save b3ta! St3cks, Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:39, archived)
# genius
that's a click!
(I helped save b3ta! Milkman Dan, Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:39, archived)
# Did you know that they have had to change their advertising?
Trading standards have upheld complaints that Um Bongo is, in fact, not available in the Congo and that suggesting that it is may be falsely improving the product in the eyes of some consumers.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Fri 6 Apr 2007, 2:31, archived)
# Not true
You can even download the song from the Um Bongo web site.
(OwlofDoom is new around here... yes, he is, Sat 7 Apr 2007, 11:46, archived)
# hooray for the um bongo song!
(Nobody Likes Mortal Wombat, Sat 7 Apr 2007, 12:27, archived)
# Um Bongo
I spent a couple of days in Congo last November trying to buy a carton out there. :^( They didn't know what it was despite me singing the song to several people...
(travellingsteve, Sat 7 Apr 2007, 22:47, archived)
# Heheheheh clever clever!
*le clic*
(I helped save b3ta! Chorizowagon Came wandering back on, Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:40, archived)
#
the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Romford
(Gyrate AHHHHHH! Saviour of the Universe!, Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:41, archived)
# Haha!
Superb!
(I helped save b3ta! NinjaBadger hides in the bushes and gives you TB., Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:41, archived)
# hahaha
they'll have to change that advert every 2 weeks :D
(I helped save b3ta! Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:42, archived)
# hahaha aceness!
*clicks*
(I helped save b3ta! ivesb Highly specialised Clinical Physiologist crapbag, Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:42, archived)
# Very good, though in this case I think "The Congo" refers to the Congo river basin and not Congo as a country.
/gets poke proof coat
(I helped save b3ta! Damien's Hearse, Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:42, archived)
# Everyone - Poke the pedant!
*Poke*
(I helped save b3ta! NinjaBadger hides in the bushes and gives you TB., Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:47, archived)
# this should be the punishment for all pedants
mass-poking

*joins with the poking*
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:48, archived)
# cor mass poking!
*lubes up*
(I helped save b3ta! Damien's Hearse, Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:56, archived)
# um basin
um basin

you fill it up with raisin
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:47, archived)
# hahaha
king of drinks
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:42, archived)
# Peoples Very very very Democratic Republic of Congo
Love the names some places give themselves...
'The Gloriously Magnificent and Very Very Democratic (Honest Guv) Peoples democratic and Mighty and did we mention democratic Republic of >Insert name here<'
(I helped save b3ta! Spenface ALWAYS hangs in the Buffalo Stance, Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:43, archived)
# Idi Amins title was my favourite
His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:47, archived)
# such a murdering bastard needs a grand title
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:49, archived)
# Mental.. but a sense of Style...
*Awards self with the Title.. Protector of all the planets in the Galaxy and Grand Marshall of the Templaric Holy Order of the Phoenix*
(I helped save b3ta! Spenface ALWAYS hangs in the Buffalo Stance, Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:50, archived)
# *bows before you*
*ties your shoelaces together*
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:52, archived)
# *Falls*
*Pretends I meant to do it*
(I helped save b3ta! Spenface ALWAYS hangs in the Buffalo Stance, Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:55, archived)
# That is
100% truth
(lord retchington spleen, Fri 6 Apr 2007, 2:33, archived)
# has there ever been a country with 'democratic' in the title
that has been?
(I helped save b3ta! plentyofants more ghee, vicar?, Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:47, archived)
# heh Heh...
Like Mcdonalds 'Healthy Options'
(I helped save b3ta! Spenface ALWAYS hangs in the Buffalo Stance, Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:53, archived)
# "Coup free since last Wednesday"
(I helped save b3ta! Damien's Hearse, Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:50, archived)
# Hahaha
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:48, archived)
# haahahaha
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:54, archived)
# Now added
(KingOfMyCastle, Fri 6 Apr 2007, 13:40, archived)
# Having actually BEEN to the Congo
I can out this advertising claim as the most outrageous lie.

They are HUGE on Vimto, mind you.
(I helped save b3ta! Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Fri 6 Apr 2007, 17:00, archived)
# well
it IS supposed to be an aphrodisiac
(Nobody Likes Mortal Wombat, Sat 7 Apr 2007, 12:30, archived)