25 Comments

1. pGFTuv

   Posted May 31, 2010 at 10:04 PM

   me like it. . . .

2. Jacariche

   Posted May 31, 2010 at 10:11 PM

   For my “My Fair Lady” friends!

3. canturgan

   Posted May 31, 2010 at 10:44 PM

   Super Stardom

4. ruskibog935

   Posted May 31, 2010 at 11:20 PM

   New York English (specifically Bensonhurst Brooklyn English)

5. mrtony80

   Posted June 1, 2010 at 12:03 AM

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

6. TonyTonyG

   Posted June 1, 2010 at 12:46 AM

   It’s still open

7. TonyTonyG

   Posted June 1, 2010 at 1:41 AM

   how to be cockney 101

8. sammysam2

   Posted June 1, 2010 at 2:21 AM

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

9. TheFaolan1313

   Posted June 1, 2010 at 2:59 AM

   @sammysam2
   accent training.

10. teabagbob

    Posted June 1, 2010 at 3:21 AM

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

11. Jez32uk

    Posted June 1, 2010 at 4:11 AM

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

12. sammysam2

    Posted June 1, 2010 at 4:40 AM

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

13. nathalieluvslondon4l

    Posted June 1, 2010 at 5:01 AM

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

14. AdmiralBirdseye

    Posted June 1, 2010 at 5:58 AM

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

15. daforze

    Posted June 1, 2010 at 6:45 AM

    cool thx

16. KyotoMartyn

    Posted June 1, 2010 at 7:10 AM

    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”.

17. imanacer

    Posted June 1, 2010 at 8:07 AM

    braVO, Kyoto! Where did you get this quote.
    Brill.

18. cbak12sg

    Posted June 1, 2010 at 8:48 AM

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

19. thecollector75

    Posted June 1, 2010 at 9:12 AM

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

20. SLODCAST

    Posted June 1, 2010 at 10:05 AM

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

21. stanleyj19

    Posted June 1, 2010 at 10:47 AM

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

22. zsolie

    Posted June 1, 2010 at 11:35 AM

    i love cockney, i love estuary

23. TwanyGreen

    Posted June 1, 2010 at 12:06 PM

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

24. mrmalade

    Posted June 1, 2010 at 12:50 PM

    this is the best advert I’ve ever seen

25. Hoelfawr

    Posted June 1, 2010 at 1:10 PM

    Think I went out with her when she was posh!