Cillit Bang: Bang, and the dirt is gone!

By now many British people will have been exposed to those wonderful opening lines "Hi there, i'm Barry Scott, and i'm here to talk to you about Cillit Bang...' But just who is Barry Scott? Where does he come from? Is Cillit Bang really made from the souls of small children? Why the name 'Cillit'?

This, and many more questions shall be answered in the great....

Cillit Bang Thread!

Ironic that this has been started by someone with a locking message in his sig... ~D

That name always makes me do a double take.

I'm pleased that you sigged that, Mikeus. One of my more inspired closing messages, if I do say so myself.

Wait... it isn't just spam? There really is a Barry Scott and a Cillit Bang?

http://www.luckykazoo.com/media/2005...ang-remix.html

^^a remix of some of the cheesy adverts for the mysterious product (allegedly from eastern Yurp).

Kinda funny: the list of "not suitable for" is longer than the "suitable for" http://www.cillitbang.co.uk/sf2_all.shtml

I have Cillit Bang under the sink. I can’t stand any of those nauseating cleaning commercials though.

I clean with a cocktail of boiled-down bleach and Ajax. Then I wipe it up with steel wool.

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Originally Posted by Zorba

I clean with a cocktail of boiled-down bleach and Ajax. Then I wipe it up with steel wool.

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I use a herbal facewash meself ~:joker:

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Originally Posted by InsaneApache

I use a herbal facewash meself ~:joker:

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Very good....

But seriously, Barry Scott and Cillit Bang were (I guess) going for the so-bad-its-good advert vibe. Unfortunately they went right round the clock, through so-bad-its-good and back round into its-bad again. The first few times I saw it I was waiting for the joke at the end...

I reckon Barry must be married to that woman in the pink jumpsuit who accosts a mother in a shopping mall, pours beetroot on her white t shirt, ("she's worried. I'm not") and then washes it in whatever her miracle product is (which, I note, is also very pink and may simply be Cillit Bang under another name) , to the not-at-all-well acted delight of the mother and passers by when it comes out white again.

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Originally Posted by English assassin

I reckon Barry must be married to that woman in the pink jumpsuit who accosts a mother in a shopping mall, pours beetroot on her white t shirt, ("she's worried. I'm not") and then washes it in whatever her miracle product is (which, I note, is also very pink and may simply be Cillit Bang under another name) , to the not-at-all-well acted delight of the mother and passers by when it comes out white again.

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I think that pink 'Cillit Bang under another name' product is probably owned by the same company as Cillit, but is designed for clothes, (with reference to the not suitable list) rather than just under half of all household objects.

I can't get over that name... who the hell comes up with a name like "Cillit Bang"?

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Originally Posted by Zorba

I can't get over that name... who the hell comes up with a name like "Cillit Bang"?

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Someone who chooses the slogan ('Bang! And the dirt is gone') before they choose the name of the product. As for the Cillit part...well, why not?

Well, with the group of elite ninja berserkers I have, I'll make sure that the Cillit Bang factory goes bang, blood and everything. Hail Scotland!:scotland: