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Small ads from the UK

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Posted by Dabitch on 9. June 2005 - 16:49
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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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Submitted by PenguinLost on 10. June 2005 - 10:27.
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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

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Submitted by blondino on 10. June 2005 - 13:53.
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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.

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Submitted by Dabitch on 10. June 2005 - 20:29.
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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.. ;)

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Submitted by johndoom on 27. July 2005 - 11:42.
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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.

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Submitted by Dabitch on 27. July 2005 - 12:10.
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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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