Boom Boom Boom, Let Me Hear You Say Hosepipe Ban

This isn't a PIF, because it's made on behalf of a private company. It's not an advert either, because it's clearly a public announcement. It's a quasi-PIF from newly privatised Thames Water at the height of the 1990 drought.

Try not to think too hard about the water that was used to make the film in the first place. Or the fact that it helpfully tells you to freephone Thames Water, and even gives the hours, but doesn't provide the number.

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• commercial
• PIF
• public
• information
• PSA
• film
• announcement
• Thames
• Water
• pissed
• off
• duck
• rubber
• duckie
• bath
• drought
• thirst
• weeping
• Half
• Man
• Biscuit
• Gratuitous
• HMHB
• Reference

[electrogeek77]

HOSE-PIPE-BANNNNNNNNN!!!!

Oh, you didn't REALLY want us to say it, did you? So sorry!

[053bss]

Enn Reitel, of Lombard Direct fame doing the talking.

[chrispunks83]

The titles you give the videos never fail to make me laugh!

[RobinCarmody]

"Puffing Billy". *Again*. Astonishingly, most of its uses came *after* the Comic Strip ripped the piss out of it in their Famous Five parodies.