PAUL VREEDE writes : "My brother and self went to a train show in Holland last Saturday, where he was much amused to spot a UFO in a cornfield on somebody's layout (see pic). What puzzled him was that there's a milk truck parked right next to it. He didn't ask the layout's owners, but I could explain it to him later: it's a reference to a famous 1980s Dutch advertising campaign for milk entitled "Milk - the white motor". This featured portraits of "atypical milk drinkers" and included a nice variation with a slogan I'd translate as "Gnirk - the white gnotor" still visible at GNERK
as a ps: outside of Holland the reference of the milk truck wouldn't work of course. But perhaps some H0-scale grain circles would be fun instead. :)
ReplyDeletehee hee! reminds me of the laughing Martians in the Cadbury's SMASH TV ad. Even SMASH out of a packet need some milk to make it palatable!
ReplyDeletePerhaps its also a film set for 'The Day The Milk Stood Still" in which GORT threatened to curdle all milk with his Milky Ray until Klaatu whispers "Klaatu barada Milko"!
ReplyDeletespeaking of which - anyone know if there was any real significance in all the choc bars being named after celestial objects ? i.e Mars Bar, Milky Way, Galaxy ? Apart from a few stars on the MW wrapper, there was never any real space connection that i was aware of..
ReplyDeleteThe inventor of the Mars Bar was Forrest Mars. I expect his name was the starting point. Sean
ReplyDeleteIn Iceland, the Mars Bar is called "Hraun" (lava), not very celestial but quite to the point from the Icelandic POV, eh? Arto
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