Heineken 'Majorca' commercial - 1985

[vania1013]

im afraid the whole cast is now dead

what a shame

[TheElisabethPage]

@vania1013 Sylvestra Le Touzel is still alive. Sadly Bryan Pringle died in 2002. Don't know who the young guy was.

[UnderstandtheAwesome]

omg I absolutely love this ad!!!!

[theweedsprite]

they're saying that cockneys are actually common londoners under the effects of alcohol.

[hckcm7315]

Possible the best advert I have ever seen.

[thevaultboy3000]

CLASSIC ABSOULUTLEY CLASSIC.

[ragdoll2309]

so what they're saying is, if you drink heineken it'll burn brain cells faster than you can say "the water in majorca......."

[BOOBMIT]

is she the bird from casualty the soap

[andyjay729]

Oi think she's go' it! Oi think she's go' it!

[cofpaddy]

Heineken, making slappers out of women since 1888

[Sesquipedaliantique]

@cofpaddy And making attractive men out of...well, me :D

[Tonnerrrrr]

LMFAO I LOVE IT<3

[smiglips]

loved this advert ever since a was a kid

[Optimusnorm]

Heineken is one of the worst beers there is...right down there with Budweiser and Fosters...all piss. Hehe.

[TumbleTower]

The odd thing is, she was pronouncing Majorca correctly at the start. The bloke was teaching her to say it wrongly! You're not supposed to say the J in Majorca, that's as bad as saying the K in knife etc. Anyway, isn't Majorca an English spelling, go there and you'll see it spelt Mallorca.

[Kwekwe]

@TumbleTower LOL! Thats the joke, he's teaching her to say it cockney style-which is the incorrect pronunciation!

[pGFTuv]

me like it.... :D

[Jacariche]

For my "My Fair Lady" friends!

[mrtony80]

Cockney is the English English as ______ is to American English?

[ruskibog935]

New York English (specifically Bensonhurst Brooklyn English)

[linewman1]

@mrtony80

Southern accent

[sammysam2]

no, but what i meant was.. i want to know the situation she was being prepared for in which she'd need that accent..

[TonyTonyG]

how to be cockney 101

[canturgan]

Super Stardom

[Jez32uk]

You don't see enough adverts parodying Pygmalion these days.

[sammysam2]

what i want to know is what on earth was the purpose of her reading that?

[teabagbob]

You *ARE* joking, right? That's the whole point of the joke.

[TheFaolan1313]

@sammysam2

accent training.

[nathalieluvslondon4l]

OMG tat is so funny i suggest yuoo 'ave a butchers at tis 1 !!

[AdmiralBirdseye]

Do people still holiday in Majorca in 2009? I thought Majorca closed down on 11:59pm, December 31st, 1989. I could be wrong though.

[TonyTonyG]

It's still open

[cbak12sg]

Sylvestra Le Touzel is the lady. Posh name for a posh voice, until she drinks the Heineken.

[SLODCAST]

Proper ring pulls, those were the days.......

[thecollector75]

i say bring them back so we can flick them in unsuspecting eyes lol

[stanleyj19]

My mother used to dress like that 20 years ago and my auntie still does

[zsolie]

i love cockney, i love estuary

[TwanyGreen]

If only adverts were of this quality nowadays! Still makes me chuckle when friends say they're going to Majorca for a holiday. Classic!!!

[mrmalade]

this is the best advert I've ever seen

[Hoelfawr]

Think I went out with her when she was posh!

[KyotoMartyn]

"It is sometimes said of those who have mastered standard English that they speak with a plum in their mouth. When you think of what most of this country sounds as though it's got in its mouth when it speaks, a plum seems to me a highly desirable alternative."

[imanacer]

braVO, Kyoto! Where did you get this quote.

Brill.

[KyotoMartyn]

It's by the ever eloquent Howard Jacobson. He was addressing some Oxford students in 1991, making the case against educated yoof's wholesale adoption of demotic English. Even then he knew the war was lost.

From an excellent BBC film "Think of England - Yo! Mrs Askew".

[daforze]

cool thx

[danielaung691]

@KyotoMartyn Essex girls dont have plums in their mouths ;)



[KyotoMartyn]

@danielaung691 I suspect they do when they pull.

[danielaung691]

@KyotoMartyn LMAO :P only reason why i know about this chic is cos i watched this film with her and robson green in it called the gambling man. And i liked her ever sicne i saw her :P

[ogzz00]

This particular school of English has become incredibly popular in recent years, with alumni including Jamie Oliver and Lily Allen.

[halsalli]

yer mean itz estury init.

Pukka

And I'm from Lancashire!

[strangemenssana]

@ogzz00 And i suppose Heineken caters to plebs with undemanding palates.

[massimovitz]

unparalleled wits

[Lauraloos1981]

he's acting like del boy.... a fraud, theres only one del boy!!! get him!!!!!

[Focusakker]

Heineken. Just being the best is enough. Imported by Van Munching and Company, New York, New York.

[TALIBANBOYOreturns]

Faaaarkin hell. I remember that as a kid. People were saying that for years.

[tomqelectronica]

ye they were wernt that we most prob did aswell lol

[e7whu]

cringe

[mancunian1234]

Nah its funny.

[mancunian1234]

She has one helluva lovely posh voice untill she drinks that beer!!!

[Soularddave]

lubricant for language!

[AntarcticaTelevision]

This ad is just a CLASSIC!