Six of the best … cars
Here’s an intriguing advert that appeared many times in the early 1980s, By that time the mortar board and the gown were disappearing from schools … as, of course, was the whippy school cane.
And let’s draw a veil over the fact that
the person on the receiving end is quite clearly an adult dressed in short
trousers.
As
published in the Southern Evening Echo (Southampton, England), Fri, June
4, 1982.
And, I’m not sure that the prices of the
cars were ‘the best’.
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I wonder how many times the phrase 'six of the best' has been used in advertising? Numerous times I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteOne of those phrases where the meaning will be lost on many now, but seen many adverts in the past use it and as a newspaper heading at times. As other guys recollection have said it was a term given but seemly rarely said. You stayed down until the headmaster said or if in a group you saw how many strokes were being given out.
ReplyDeleteYes that was my experience - I can only recall it being used once at school and that was as a warning from my new headmaster; not that it was heeded!
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