Small ads from the UK
A new funny link has been added to the ad links as I was grooming the collection today (Big thanks to all of you who have reported duds, muchos gracias.) It's a collection of UK small space ads or classifieds if you prefer. Yes it's a photoshop job, but they are dang funny some of them - though I seem to recall that these images were served on some other type of site a while back. Might even have been a flash site perhaps. Does anyone else recognise these gags?
Small ads in the UK (Classifieds)

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- צור קשר עם קוקה קולה ישראל
4 hours 3 min ago - אני רוצה ששמי יהיה על בקבוק
10 hours 19 min ago - Name Asaad
Coca cola
Thankz
10 hours 22 min ago - What, no pitchforks and
1 day 36 min ago - Worth it for your dream
1 day 37 min ago - I could care less about the
1 day 1 hour ago - Okay, it may be hokey in some
1 day 14 hours ago - What is the name of the song
4 days 12 hours ago - With this card, they're
4 days 16 hours ago - Haha as well as "Why is it?"
5 days 11 min ago


Looks like The Framley Examiner, a British local newspaper. Seems they're also looking for a web designer.
Check their archives for more
http://www.framleyexaminer.com/pages/index.html
Hmm... I found a lot of them here (horsman.co.nz). But that is probaly not the original either
However, I also stumbled across a few other ones that seem more like real classifieds.
Hey Blondino I haven't seen you for ages. :)
I dunno what classifieds to believe anymore. I do want to put some really weird ones in my local paper just to see if anyone notices now tho.. ;)
Hi, these two ads you feature here were joke ads placed by British comedian Jimmy Carr. This I know because I watched his DVD last night and he has a whole section where he reads out spoof classifieds - actually it's the best part of his act. Some of the others were truly hilarious, so good I've completely forgotten them, as I do all the best jokes.
Anyway, if you like these, check out his dvd.
cheers.
This Jimmy Carr? Ah, I'll have to pick that up, always like to get acquainted with new (to me) comedians. Ta!
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