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A Mini Legend!
- 07-17-2006
posted on July 17, 2006, 3:18 pm
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Found this old 1970's British Leyland advert which stars comedy legend
Spike Milligan. Well he was one of the first British celebrities to
buy a Mini (right from the beginning in 1959 I believe), before all the
others like Peter Sellers, all The Beatles, Mick Jagger etc, etc went
mad for them after the famous outright Monte Carlo Rally wins. And he
owned dozens of Mini's over the years/decades up his death and even
starred in a documentary to celebrate it's 30th birthday back in 1989.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRaMdqO4OqM
Then there's this little sketch from his comedy show "Spike Milligan Q"
from 1975. Unfortunately it's now considered very un-PC and the BBC
refused to include it as an extra on a classic 1975 Doctor Who DVD
(Genesis Of The Daleks) recently. Anyway it's quite funny but I hope
Bin Laden and his Al Kaida cronies don't get to see it because I doubt
they'd see the funny side?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0wK1psQk7s
Taffy
Re: A Mini Legend!
Mind you the Spike Milligan Mini advert isn't fully working (well it
isn't for me) and he should then say "Bigger on the inside" and then
"So don't just wave the British flag, buy it!" and he wheel skids off
in the Mini, leaving tyre marks behind.
Oh and there is a very dark coincidence in the second film from his
comedy show too and I do appologize if i've offended anyone, but I
didn't see a connection before. Well think about it, Pakastani Daleks
exterminating commuters on the tube train? And yes it's been just over
a year since the July 7th bombings by Al Kaida on the London
Underground.
So yes that clip is more relavant today than it was in 1975 and yet the
BBC refuse to show it or include it on a DVD because it's considered
un-PC. What a bloody mad world we live in today!
Taffy
Re: A Mini Legend!
You say that, ive had a metro and it just kept going and going, i even hit a
feld tree with mine and it lept over it quite happily, drove it thru 2 feet
of snow when i lived in scotland, ripped the front panel off when i clipped
a frozen bank....
I was even thinking of getting another one, an MG or a GTA perhaps, at least
if it dies i can recycle nearly everything for use on a mini...
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