Comments on: Zorlac Mark and Barry Abrook Advert

By: chiselbird

chiselbird — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:54:57 +0000

ever since I saw this ad, if I hear the word ‘limey’ it summons up that image of the grinning Abrooks.

didn’t they also appear in Sketchy comic wearing “fuck you, I’m from Texas” t-shirts?

By: Sgt Partridge

Sgt Partridge — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:30:04 +0000

Yeah, aside from the subject matter, I think it must have been partly to do with the quite rough-and-ready punk aesthetic to the magazine’s design. It’s wasn’t quite the Radio Times was it?

Oh, and the old “So what does RAD stand for, Son?”
“Read and Destroy, Dad…”
“What? y’mean go out and wreck stuff?”
“Not like that. In a skating kind of way, y’know?”
“Oh? Wrecking stuff on a skateboard. Your Mum’ll be so proud.”

By: timlb

timlb — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:55:18 +0000

I was always delighted when people insisted that R.a.D was full of swearwords. They almost never appeared within the editorial and yet clearly people (parents etc) got the impression that we must be using them.

By: Sgt Partridge

Sgt Partridge — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:18:23 +0000

Man, I remember this advert. I cut it out and stuck it on my wall with all the centre page pullout posters. Mainly because it had a swear word on it…