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You’re not a geography teacher by any chance, are you?;)

Flood.

Originally posted by Flood
but am very wary of the corduroy safari jackets in chocolate brown as modelled by Mr Cool 1973 and his beard…

Flood.

And I thought I was being fashionable.

Imagine someone says there will be ‘X’ number of pages of advertising in that particular edition (three months hence?) – go fill it! And the advertising staff take out their filofaxes and see who might be desperate to off load 300 pairs of assorted mis-shaped trews! Lets face it, how many companies involved in our corner of the aviation hobby would be be able to afford a full colour page advert all the time?
I would admit to liking the idea of the pilots shirts (the ones with epaulettes and pen loops!;)) but am very wary of the corduroy safari jackets in chocolate brown as modelled by Mr Cool 1973 and his beard…

Flood.

Didn’t the early Ju87s have a trousered undercarriage? Not sure what a Stuka’s inside leg measurement was though?

Oddly enough,I actually wrote to them about these dating and expandable trouser ads a few months back (I added the comment to another email I sent them about their none-too-tasteful coverage of the Spirit of St.Louis crash at Coventry). Here’s the reply from the editor about the ads…

“Turning to your other comments about expandable trousers etc, I am in utter, complete and total agreement with you. On the one hand our parent company IPC Media wants us to attract a younger readership as they are convinced that our core readers are dying off, but on the other hand the prospect of advertising revenue blinds them to the effect these ads have on readers in their 20s, and to the stick such readers receive from their mates. I fight an ongoing battle to restrict such ads, and will continue to do so; you should see the ones I’ve succeeded in getting banned!

Regards, Michael Oakey
Editor
Aeroplane”

Originally posted by Mark12
Daz,

I told ’em this was Simon Cowell – nobody believed me. 🙁

Mark

You could be right – the ugly, pretty smashed-up bird he’s standing in front of could be Michelle McManus! 😀

(Daz – plumbing the depths of nastiness since 1979! ;))

Judging by recent press reports that ‘ many accidents are caused by trousers every year’ perhaps the aviation press should encourage us to wear flying overalls instead. Or are they even more ‘dangerous’ 🙂
mmitch.

Re: Re: ’twill’iant

Originally posted by Moggy C
There are four possible answers.
2) Fat b*st*rds read ‘another magazine’ slim god-like people read FlyPast.
Moggy

We read Flypast as well,

You don’t know hard it is to get good fitting comfortable trousers when you are built like a barrage balloon.

Calling all Girls! (both of you)

These strides sound like the perfect Valentine present for your men. Cheap too. I’m off to get some. Maybe they make good cleaning rags too.

Daz,

I told ’em this was Simon Cowell – nobody believed me. 🙁

Mark

Didn’t realise Pop Idol had a new judge!! 😉

Cavalry Twills – P.S.

I forget to mention that mine fit a treat, apart from the waistband ……………….. still a bit tight under the arms! 🙂

Mark

Originally posted by Mike J
They must be operating on the principal that there’s one born every minute, I suppose!

I think I’ve heard this one before – something about a “war-bird” squadron, as advertised in one or other of the GA periodicals! 😉

Originally posted by Moggy C
You could always wear a frock. 😉

Moggy

In Scotland they call that a ‘kilt’ – and that’s as far as it goes with me!! 😉

Ashley,

You’re on. 😉 I lied about my age.

See also page 101 of the current ‘Aeropain’ for the full page dating ad!

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For me ads like that in Aviation magazines are a complete turn off along side Spam, Junk Mail, and the pr*ts from ‘Angrian Home Improvements’ who ring once a week just as I am starting my evening meal.

Mark

ps Thanks Moggy.

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“You have to be 100 per cent behind someone before you can stab them in the back”

David Brent

2) Fat b*st*rds read ‘another magazine’ slim god-like people read FlyPast

Oyyyyyeee – I actually read them both !!!!

😀 😀 😀

Originally posted by DazDaMan
Rules me out then 😉

You could always wear a frock. 😉

Moggy

Originally posted by Ashley

I have to say Mark, I’ve not seen any adverts for “dating services” in any aviation magazines…could be interesting reading…

E.g…”Male Spitfire owner 32, 6ft, brown eyes, seeks Spitfire loving female in her 30s, to enjoy romantic strolls around Museums and attending airshows, and cosying up over the latest copy of Wrecks and Relics with a bottle of red wine in front of a roaring fire…”

Hmmmm…maybe there’s money to be made in this…;)

Ashley

Rules me out then 😉

Sounds like the sort of advert I see in Air Mail (the RAFA magazine) and Motoring and Leisure (the CSMA magazine)…verrrrry fetching they look too…

NOT 😉

I have to say Mark, I’ve not seen any adverts for “dating services” in any aviation magazines…could be interesting reading…

E.g…”Male Spitfire owner 32, 6ft, brown eyes, seeks Spitfire loving female in her 30s, to enjoy romantic strolls around Museums and attending airshows, and cosying up over the latest copy of Wrecks and Relics with a bottle of red wine in front of a roaring fire…”

Hmmmm…maybe there’s money to be made in this…;)

Ashley

Re: ’twill’iant

Originally posted by Mark12

Moggy – you will know all about the psychology of marketing. Have the advertisers achieved their aim by the very fact that I have posted this?

Mark

There are four possible answers.

1) The company or their marketing advisers are cretins

2) Fat b*st*rds read ‘another magazine’ slim god-like people read FlyPast.

3) Research has shown that people who wobble around on stepladders need roomy, well-built trousers.

4) It was meant to be an ad for surplus high-power binoculars and the copy boy sent off the wrong disc.

I lean towards 1), though I’m not sure where I’d advise placing the ad for Cavalry Twill keks otherwise. Saga magazine perhaps?

Moggy