The club was ridiculed during the 1980s with a milk advert on television, in which a young boy boasted that Ian Rush had told him that " if didn't drink lots of milk, when up, only be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley ".

A 1923 advert for William Beardmore and Company, Clydeside, who employed 40, 000 workers at its height.

Flat Eric featured in the video for Mr. Oizo's " Flat Beat " in 1999 ; the puppet and instrumental UK number one were popularised through use in advert for Levi Strauss & Co. | Levi's Sta-Prest jeans.

* Colin Hay performed " Down Under " on an advert for Australian telephone company Telstra supporting the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Smith is a lifelong fan of Rolls Royce cars, buying his first Silver Shadow at Brighton Racecourse from an advert in Sporting Life for £ 5, 000.

Advocates of the free will response may advert to a different explanation of these natural evils, or extend the free will response to account for them.

They will wash and iron them, and then you can buy them back for 50p .– McDonald's advert

The characters also appeared in a commercial for Children In Need in 2009, as well as in the Christmas advert for Marks and Spencer.

On her 78th Birthday, February 18, 2011, Ono took out a full page advert in the UK free newspaper Metro for ' Imagine Peace 2011 '.

Later he picked the name " Numan " from an advert in the " Yellow Pages " for a plumber " A. Neumann ".

Held ) and 1996, in the latter case thanks to an appearance in an advert for Carling beer.

In early 2007, the knitted monkey and Johnny Vegas reappeared in an advert for PG Tips tea, which included a reference to ITV Digital's downfall.

From 1979 and into the early 1980s he branched out into advertising, making an advert dressed as a traffic warden for Parker Pens, and notably starring with Joan Collins as her boorish companion in a series of successful and endearing Cinzano commercials.

In 1964 he appeared as Richard Burbage in Sherrin and Caryl Brahms musical of No Bed for Bacon, while his early stature as a personality was confirmed by a cartoon advert he devised for the Brewer ’ s Society proclaiming the charms of the local pub.

In the 1980s, the club was mentioned in a British advert for milk, which briefly brought the club to the attention of the general public.

A storyboard for an imagined television advert, showing four shots.

Hill also made a UK television advert with F1 commentator Murray Walker for Pizza Hut, in which Walker commentated on Hill's meal as if it were a race.

The roots of Them, the band that first broke Morrison on the international scene, came in April 1964 when Morrison responded to an advert for musicians to play at a new R & B club at the Maritime Hotel – an old dance hall frequented by sailors.

In a long and varied career, which began with an advert for Mackeson Stout and a bit part in Dad's Army, his most famous roles were as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary of the fictional Department of Administrative Affairs in the television series Yes Minister ( and Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister ), for which he won four BAFTA awards, and as King George III in Alan Bennett's stage play The Madness of George III ( Olivier Award ) and the film version entitled The Madness of King George, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

* BBC News: Australian advert banned on UK TV

The first issue featured a cover ( which would become briefly the unofficial logo of The News ) drawn by Rickard from a Selfridges advert originally created by Bernard Partridge.

In a new advert on February 25, 1893 in the Illustrated London News, Mr Roe cunningly turned the whole lost case to his advantage.

Paul Merton and Ian Hislop also parodied the show during a promotional advert for the 2007 and 2008 series of Have I Got News for You.

In 1913 he was released by Blackburn on a free transfer ; unable to find a club he was forced to place an advert in The Athletic News, which read:

Working alongside Alan Parker, Hugh Hudson, and cinematographer Hugh Johnson Ridley Scott made many commercials at RSA during the 1970s, including a notable 1974 Hovis advert, " Bike Round " ( featuring New World Symphony ), filmed in Shaftesbury, Dorset.

This 1991 advert prompted more than 800 complaints to the British Advertising Standards Authority during 1991 and was featured in the reference book Guinness World Records 2000 as ' Most Controversial Campaign '.

In 1997, following his win of the Formula One World Championship, Villeneuve appeared in a Volkswagen advert on Quebec television.

The advert was first aired on US Network TV during the UEFA Champions League Final between Bayern Munich and Inter Milan on 22 May and then throughout the World Cup.

* More recently Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington parodied the advert to promote the release of the book The World Of Karl Pilkington in a video podcast.

He featured in a spoof online viral promoting the Nintendo DS game World Snooker Championship Season 2007 – 08, in which he parodied a Nicole Kidman Brain Training advert.

As a 13 year old, he appeared in a well-known British advert for McDonald's, in which he played keepie uppie, during the 1994 FIFA World Cup campaign.

Also in 2010, Byford appeared on screen as a cricket umpire in a television advert for Mivela water during the FIFA World Cup.

In 2005, after 56 complaints from TV viewers, PC World was forced to remove an advert that gave misinformation about wireless networking.

She collaborated with Remco de Fouw to make Perpetual Motion ( 1995 ), a large sphere with road markings which stands on the Naas dual carriageway and featured as a visual shorthand for leaving Dublin in The Apology, a Guinness advert.

After reading an advert in the underground magazine Oz ( in 1969 ) for the " International Fortean Organisation " ( INFO ), an American group " founded in 1966 ... by Paul and Ronald Willis ," who had acquired material from the original Fortean Society ( started in 1931, but in limbo since the 1959 death of its founder Tiffany Thayer ), Rickard began to correspond with the brothers, particularly Paul.

During the 1969 – 70 season this was joined, to its northern side, by an advert for Vauxhall & Bedford, which led to the Premier Garage advert being halved in size.

In this instance, Bacardi faced a legal ruling from the Spanish Association of Advertising Users which forced the company to stop the advert.

They concluded that it could " mislead the viewer as to the true nature of the product " as the advert contained so many pieces of Caribbean imagery, one might conclude it came from Cuba.

It was later voted as the worst advert of the year.

In 1994, Greenpeace published an anti-nuclear newspaper advert which included a claim that nuclear facilities Sellafield would kill 2, 000 people in the next 10 years, and an image of a hydrocephalus-affected child said to be a victim of nuclear weapons testing in Kazakhstan.

This resulted in banning of the advert.

The advert ended with the father and the ' mother ' kissing.

Withdrawing the advert caused further controversy with Heinz being accused of homophobia.

MP Diane Abbott called the decision to withdraw the advert ' ill-considered ' and ' likely to offend the gay community ' in an Early Day Motion on June 25.

Created by Mother, the campaign will begin with a TV advert shot in front of a live audience, featuring four stand-up comedians, two men and two women, having the debate over which gender is the messiest.

A 1960s advert, it reads :" When you were a kid, science fiction gave you a sense of wonder.

" One of these commercials, featuring Mr. T crashing through a wall on the back of a technical vehicle before firing Snickers bars at a speed walker wearing tight-fitting yellow shorts, was pulled by Mars following a complaint by the U. S .- based group Human Rights Campaign, despite the fact that the advert had never been shown outside the U. K.

There, users can often obtain applications that are free and advert banner supported, and often a paid version with no ads and maybe more features.

Paul Hester, late drummer of Crowded House, once appeared in a VB advert.