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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-10 06:58 AM
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If you're fond of sand dunes and salty air, quaint little villages here and there.
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-10 12:38 PM
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1. Does this have to do with Wellfleet?....nt
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-10 12:51 PM
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2. No , but I did find out something interesting about that song
A few years back, it was used in an ad campaign for M & S stores in the UK and those ads turned out to be a ludicrous failure,

One of the Groove Armada's members talks about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm8Bg8XDr_U&feature=fvsr

Here's the ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekpBrywvRpo

Mmmmm, tasty! :puke:

Anyway, the internet being the internet, people came up with parodies of the ads

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGeJg61JrgY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBNCmhjhIBE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UKRQOc36Lo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHVXy3-lAjA


One thing that you can't say about the Brits is that they don't have a wicked sense of humor.
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