Screaming Yellow Zonkers

As part of this week’s setisoppO, I had to learn about Screaming Yellow Zonkers. But before we get onto that, here’s the latest episode of the podcast where we work out the opposite of things that don’t have a natural opposite. We also ponder on dressage, and short shorts (we like short shorts).

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We talk about how pretty the packaging is for Screaming Yellow Zonkers, but when we recorded I hadn’t had a look at the TV advertising. Check this out.

https://youtu.be/2aafTU7f3gw

No idea why, but this really reminds me of Dr Goldfoot And The Bikini Machine.

Adverts in the 60s were far from subtle.

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