Scottish techno version of 1980s Turkish Delight ad

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Techno turkish delight, full of groovetastic awesomeness.

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I like to think that I am full of Eastern Promise.

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OK C.S. Lewis fans, can you answer one question?

Was “Turkish Delight” in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe just a metaphor for sex?

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No, but I’ve thrown my back out more than once doing “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe”

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On a moonlit night?

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Appears to be more like Beduin Delight.

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I like those Fry’s Turkish Delight bars too!

(Artist’s impression below)

That Limmy track has turned me into a glowing sphere of pure love pulsating in interstellar space. And the original ad is also amazing and it’s not that problematic either, apart from being an ad. It’s one of the standouts from the period when British advertising went all weird and amazing.

But it’s this ad which made me, as a tiny bobling, yearn to escape from my humdrum terrestrial existence into the darkly mysterious aethereal realm of, uh, mid-priced car lube:

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Requiem!

lol

Thanks I needed that!

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