Simon Dunn

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What’s The Opposite Of A Fart?

On this week’s episode of setisoppO, the podcast where we work out the opposite of things that don’t have a natural opposite, we wonder on the opposites of Blu Tack, of sweatbands, and of farts. Yes, farts. No, YOU grow up.

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This got me wondering about old commercials for Blu Tack. It’s one of those ubiquitous products that doesn’t seem to need advertising, so I’m not sure I ever saw one. Certainly not this one from 1978.

https://youtu.be/9Nrc26J00PQ

There was an Australian TV show called Hey Hey It’s Saturday, and judging from this clip, they used to do in-vision promos … but not very well.

https://youtu.be/-oQGIHqF0cs

 

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