I remember being in the pubs in Galway and Mayo maybe 20 yrs ago and fellas, normally elderly, used to say to the barmaid "Do you want your auld lobby washed down" followed by a really dirty laugh as if they were after cracking a really smutty joke. Never got the joke myself.
The Guinness ad I remember most from my youth is the one where the families of the fiancees' were meeting together for the first time, in a drinking extablishment, not a public bar, maybe a hotel bar. It was a very tense affair and everyone dressed in their Sunday best. The father of the groom was a character exactly like George Roper from the sitcom, George and Mildred. He looked very uncomfortable wearing a tie, sitting there drinking a G&T.
The future daughter in law comes over to him and says "What's that your drinking Mr O'Brien? Wouldn't you prefer a nice pint of Guinness" To which he replies "Well he!he! I would really"
Camera pans back and everyone is sitting in a big group around a table, all happily drinking Guinness. The tension is gone. Naturally, the women are drinking glasses and the men pints.
I asked several people about this ad and no-one else can remember it. Was it my imagination or was it a real ad.
On the subject of good ads, I never understand why the really good ones aren't taken out and shown every so often again. It would be like watching Reelin in the Years. Budweiser and Coke make exellent ads (Christmas ones - seasons greetings, don't get me going on that) and they run them year after year.
Murt