Speight's Southern Man Ad
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fuck i love speights
best add ever
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@flawnstar NZ acting is usually embarrassingly overdone because we are still not sure of who we are. I love the understatedness of this simple little classic however. Frank Whitten is definitely good but who is his offsider?.. his timing and delivery is just perfect.
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Check out some more kiwi ads. Type this into youtube -> 'Classic Kiwi ads'
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Such a great ad. That fact that people still remember this ad is a tribute to how great an actor Frank Whitten was. RIP Frank.
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@rosetentoes I know so sad :( I didnt even realise he was the speights guy! lol
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Sad to hear of Frank Whitten's passing... Good on ya mate!
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RIP Frank Whitten, you will be greatly missed Grandpa Ted
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@looniebear I JUST googled this after I heard about Frank Whitten - so so sad. but it cheered me up a little to see this :)
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RIP Frank Whitten...Good on ya mate...
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RIP Frank xx
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@stungaf that's a right scottish (more specifically west-coast, glasgow sort of area) thing to do, put "but" at the end of a sentence instead of "though".
good to see the scottish influence on our southern hemisphere friends is still quite healthy!
i love NZ!
Here's the script for this ad for anyone using it to study English:
I hear you've been seeing a city girl.
Yip. She wants me to go up to Auckland with her.
Oh yeah. What's the attraction up there?
A place on the harbour, 500 SL Mercedes, 80 foot yacht and her old man's got a box at Eden Park.
Oh yeah.
She doesn't drink Speights, but.
She's a hard road finding the perfect woman, boy.
Reckon. Still, no hurry aye.
Good on you, mate.
thedailyenglishshow 5 years ago 3
Actually, the line is: She doesn't drink Speights, *bud*.
rpbrown54 4 years ago
it's "but"
mack(x4) is right.
sometimes the word "but" is transposed to the end of a sentence when it traditionally would have started it.
so in effect the meaning is "but she doesn't drink speight's"
stungaf 3 years ago 3
Fair enough
rpbrown54 3 years ago