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Old 22nd January 2009 | 07:36
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Talking Virgin advert on TV

This advert - a good advert by the way thats currently on TV - is incorrect in its supposed date!!!!

It says it is dated 1984 - when Virgin was started and shows a group of Stewardesses walking through the terminal with a Captain, and everyone wanting to change their ticket, job etc to be with Virgin.

Well in 1984 when Virgin first started they did not have those uniforms that they are wearing in fact they didnt have them until approx 1987/8 - and there were no Captains as young as the one appearing in the advert either as they were all ex-BA and Cathay Pacific captains that had retired early!!!!!

The only thing that is correct is that the Captain has got a navy uniform and gold rings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old 22nd January 2009 | 07:44
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is that a piece of tumbleweed I see blowing past?
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Old 22nd January 2009 | 07:45
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yeah but so what
i love those red high heels
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Old 22nd January 2009 | 08:01
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What's a 'stewardess'?
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Old 22nd January 2009 | 08:07
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wotsa a stewardess

well she wears an a-line navy blue skirt,
lovely navy court shoes,
tight nipped in navy jacket with gold buttons and big lapels
and wears white gloves
and her 1940's-50's hair-do is topped with a nifty little beret worn at a jaunty angle...
oh yes, red lippy ! (not too much)
u get the picture?
and she addresses you as 'sir' or madam,

and she is stepping off a comet 1 or a stratocruiser

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Old 22nd January 2009 | 08:35
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Or plummeting earthwards from a Comet 1. Did they get issued nice fetching navy blue parachutes too?
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Old 22nd January 2009 | 08:45
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fetching navy parachutes too?

well i was just recreating the romance of flying ...

erm
we know the comets were at the head of the pioneering days of the jet age and had problems...trust you to shatter my image lol

all flying then was a tad risky compared to now lol
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Old 22nd January 2009 | 09:20
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True. But the PAX were nicer.
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Old 22nd January 2009 | 09:50
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nice pax

oh yes the pax were well posh ! lol
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