Shit Claims to Fame IIMy car was in the Specsavers advert with the old lady and the loud stereo. Not me. My stupid blue Nissan Micra. Tell us about your brushes with fame.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 15:49)
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True.But back in the days when even I was young and beardless Milky Bars didn't have the accent on the wrappers, and in the adverts the jingle ended with the words "Nestles Milky Bar" with Nestles sounding the word nestles, or like nessles if you prefer.
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stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 25 Sep 2012, 20:21,
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Aha!I knew I hadn't imagined it. I remember seeing an old black-and-white advert with the lack of accent in both spelling and pronunciation.
It was on some documentary or other. I'm sure they said that the adding of the accent was a marketing thing to make them sound posh.
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Having been bored and intrigued enough to look it up, Wikipedia says the pronunciation was originally nessuls and is now neslays.(
stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 25 Sep 2012, 20:58,
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I KNEW IT!!I knew it used to go "nessles milky bar".
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browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Wed 26 Sep 2012, 12:06,
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