Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/02/20/like-an-irish-spring.html
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It makes ya feel tingly!
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My old barracks-mate used to go to the chow hall and get pancakes, bring them back to the room as takeout and take a shower with Irish Spring. The combination of ■■■■■, treacly scents was extraordinarily nauseating.
Ha! So m.o.i.s.t is a banned word here? Good to know.
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The Irish are renowned for their pleasant fragrance.
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It amuses the keeper of the banned words list and the most of the mutants here.
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I can’t see the video b/c youtube is blocked at work but I always think of the King Missile song. Is it the King missile song?
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Though if you want to be authentic; Murphy’s Oil Soap is the way to go.
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No just a commercial that if you were watching TV in 1980 would be forever etched into your brain, which I guess will be something nice about the sweet release of death when it comes.
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Damp and cold, with lots of swearing?
My wife still can’t believe that I put it on my junk. But after 10 years, there’s not much feeling left…
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i wanted to buy some Irish Spring last week, and couldn’t find it at our local grocery. i ended up getting 3 bars of Kirk’s Soap (“American Made Since 1839”), which has a very pleasing, classic soap-y scent to me. it’s probably YOUR fault that Irish Spring isn’t around anymore, you Bronner-using hippie.
EDIT: what’s so creepy about this commercial, anyway?
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Irish spring is one of the harshest (and cheapest) brands.
I went to a dermatologist about a rash, and question one was, “Do you use Irish Spring?”.
I switched soaps, no more rashes.
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So…did the pancakes go in the shower as well?
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I don’t even want to know how that’s harvested…
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It’s not really creepy. But it would gave been better if Ardal O’Hanlon was in it.
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My daughter was 4 years old when this was airing on TV. One day she asked why that man said ‘clean as a whistle’ because whistles are full of spit.
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You mean there’s more than one?
The only time I’ve seen “■■■■■” was when the writer was trying to say ■■■■■.
ETA: on topic: former Irish Spring user myself (high school). Discovered Bronner’s in college (among other things). Using Dove unscented nowadays.
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And for Johnson’s Wax?
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I always thought of John Dillinger when the Irish Spring guy pulled out his pocket knife and carved a piece off a bar of soap.
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