What a great piece of copy that is. It's up there with Go to work on an Egg or the Ready Brek Central heating for kids  television advertisements. The most creative ever perhaps was the sign outside a camping shop - “Now is the Winter of our Discounted Tents” - that is genius. Here is the Manchester Guardian of 1949: Although they made 5,000,000 hats for men last year the hatters of England are not happy. Four out of five men under 35 in some towns are unkindly indifferent t

What is real and what is not real? When I was quite young. I saw the film Chariots of the Gods,  based on Eric Von Daniken's book, at what was probably the Saturday morning cinema – a regular showing of roughly child friendly films. However I was badly frightened by one film the details of which I have forgotten. The one nightmarish scene I do remember – they were trying to force a man to sit in a strange seating contraption. Perhaps this echoed my fear of being gassed at the