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Old 27-08-19, 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted by mike_vee View Post
" The central device depicting an hour glass in the hands of Old Father Time being shattered by an electrical discharge to symbolise the speed of the new communications"

Early example of 'product placement' , it wasn't an hour glass in his hand , it was a bottle of White Lightning !
I don't know - granted, although a not unknown sight outside a Peterborough nightclub at closing time in the early hours of a weekend morning, is sharp bladed weaponry and a broken cider bottle being wielded by a naked man really going to increase sales?
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