Club Arnage

The term "Carlos Fandango" can now be used to describe anything that looks impressive but is otherwise impractical or dysfunctional.

Ha ha ha
hee hee
ho ho ho

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I rest my case!

I seriousy cannot stop laughing about that.

Thanks

The Mexico issue is still going on. - Its getting serious.

Be prepared (and then Cry a whole lot)

Thats what I say.

Me
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No Lisa, please don't blind us with a Carlos Fandango Escort next year.

For a real Carlos moment you will need a cool long cigar, Moustache and a rally jacket...
"Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet" Those adds where cool as well as the Martini adds with leanord Rossiter and Joan Collins, Sorry if I am off thread....Ian

Not quite sure what is on and off thread on this one.

Will someone PM me when they know what's going on? :)

Aclose friend of Carlos, was ofcourse, Jean Pierre Lunni.
Wonderful ads indeed.

Jean Pierre Lunni? Was he the skiing guy? Name rings a bell but the grey matter has failed me.

OK I admit defeat for the time being, I have spent hours searching for a picture of the Carlos Fandango Anglia or a copy of the advert with no joy  :(

I have however had a great time finding some of those old adverts that used to be on the box, and as this is car related thought I would share this one with you

Hamlet Ferrari Advert (http://www.ferrariownersclub.co.uk/happenings/2003/february/HamletFerrari.mpg)  :D

nobody likes a smart A I know, so I am about to elevate myself into a new level of unpopularity but......Carlos was actually a character invented in a London ad agency (Y&R) in the 1970's to support the Panama Cigar brand when it first launched under the 'six appeal' strap line. The idea being that although Carlos looked, acted, and drove like a twat, he couldn't be entirely stupid because he smoked Panama........

I will just go beat myself with a stick for a while.

Thanks Monkey. But I still need to know who J P Lunni was!

Trousers!! ;D Sorry, no idea.

You're right, he was the skiing guy, who managed to ski past a tree, one ski either side of the 60 foot high pine tree.

What?   In exactly the same way as Sonny Bono didn't

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Talking of Carlos (as we wern't) whats our 'Most Favourite Bond Moment'

Only where cars are involved might I add! (Before we all get excited!)

I think I just had mine, Spy Who loved Me, white Lotus Esprit. Oh and Barbara Bach.

Which just shows what a saddo I have become. I now HAVE to admit that I am sitting in on a (rainy) Friday night, in (sunny) Jersey watching James Bond films.

However, good idea (or most probably not) for the thread.

Me
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Oooo....

I saw my first ever Bond film in a cinema in Jersey.  ;D

It was "Live and Let Die" in 73 I think. We were on holiday at the time.

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Oh?! Well I was born in 1970, if that's any help?

Have we ever worked out the collective average age of members on the forum?

Smokie - would you be the right person to ask this question of?

Hmmmm..

I will move swiftly on to ... ERM..

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Me
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34.357 apparently...  :)

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are you sure,  ;) and that's not just you in decades, years weeks, months and hours

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You've obviously missed me out then.   ;D

Moped Boy has tipped the balance of the average value then  ::)

This is scaring me... I know I am as old as them there hills so I must be the oldest CA'er on the planet for Moped man to be holding our average age back that far...

Or did Smokie just double the number he first thought of, add thirty three and divide by how many beers he saw Paddy drinking at the 'poo bar on Saturday?

 ???

bill

Yep, it was a made up number... :)

Found it at last, someone's finally put it on YouTube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqqZ28m8uCo

Brilliant, was only talking to0 someone the other day, looked like I had gone mad.

How many years ago? Still remember "Carlos Fandango"

I've known (and used) the term 'carlos fandango' for years now*, picked it up off a mate of my dads, but never got the reference.

Until now.

* At least I have been using it in context. :)