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WATCH: Dancing Shetland pony Socks is BACK for hilarious new Christmas TV advert
The Express ^ | 11-29-13 | Dean Herbert

Posted on 11/29/2013 8:19:00 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic

A MOONWALKING Shetland pony that shot to fame after being seen by millions in a TV advert for a mobile network is set to return to our screens.

The video of Socks dancing to the tune of Fleetwood Mac's 1988 hit Everywhere became an internet hit earlier this year, with more than seven million people viewing it on YouTube.

It has now been announced that Socks has been called back to star in a second commercial for the mobile phone network Three, again set on the windswept beaches of Shetland.

The company has teamed up with VisitScotland and Promote Shetland for The Knitwear Before Christmas campaign.

Socks will be kitted out in a Fair Isle Christmas sweater created by Shetland designer Doreen Brown in accompanying print adverts.

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Pets/Animals; Sports
KEYWORDS: fairisle; moonwalk; pony; scotland
Video at link


1 posted on 11/29/2013 8:19:01 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I don’t get it....mostly digitally generated video.


2 posted on 11/29/2013 8:23:09 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero

You’re not supposed to “get it”. It’s an English ad,and we are not equipped to understand their humor. But, it’s a cute pony.


3 posted on 11/29/2013 8:26:40 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Have the PETA and animal rights groups started screaming and moaning yet like that IDIOT yesterday who called Thanksgiving “Thankskilling” b/c of all the turkeys that sacrificed their lives so we mortals could pig out.

Had a GREAT Thanksgiving with lots of turkey, hope everyone else did too!!


4 posted on 11/29/2013 8:47:13 AM PST by Bon of Babble (Don't want to brag...but I can still fit into the earrings I wore in high school!!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

“It’s an English ad,and we are not equipped to understand their humor.”

Watching “Monty Python” and “Are You Being Served?” wont help
with this one either. This one is just plain dumb. But hay
its the Brits. They are the product of 100’s of years of
mental molding. They even bow to people they think were
created by God to be better than them. These are not
sovereign individuals but members of a commonwealth collective
so they will find humor in what their “betters”
give them.


5 posted on 11/29/2013 8:51:38 AM PST by Slambat
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To: Bon of Babble
A young person in my family claims to be a vegan (but still wears the leather motorcycle jacket I gifted him/her), and ate "tofurkey" at Thanksgiving dinner yesterday. As a so-called vegan, this young person is militant, and has practically no sense of humor. Trying to inject some humor in the situation, I asked him/her what a tofurkey call would sound like. With the snarling surliness that only a know-it-all Generation.commer can conjure up, he/she snapped, "well, it's not a scream of pain".

Leave it to an under-30 Leftist to throw water on an otherwise pleasant family gathering.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

6 posted on 11/29/2013 9:04:46 AM PST by wku man (It's almost deer season, got your DEERGOGGLES on yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jexrnFq2fXY)
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To: wku man

You should share this with your young relation...

http://www.wimp.com/intelligentplants/

That tofurkey may be screaming after all!


7 posted on 11/29/2013 9:18:16 AM PST by Twotone (Marte Et Clypeo)
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To: Slambat
But hay its the Brits. They are the product of 100’s of years of mental molding. They even bow to people they think were created by God to be better than them. These are not sovereign individuals but members of a commonwealth collective so they will find humor in what their “betters” give them.

You might want to cut back on the caffeine in your coffee or increase your fibre intake.

8 posted on 11/29/2013 9:18:56 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was lost but now I'm found; blind but now I see.)
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To: Twotone
Very interesting. However, the next step for him/her would be to not eat anything that's ever cast a shadow. He/she is probably only a few Mother Earth News articles away from eating only mold and fungus.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

9 posted on 11/29/2013 9:47:11 AM PST by wku man (It's almost deer season, got your DEERGOGGLES on yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jexrnFq2fXY)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I get a bit suspicious whenever a headline contains the word “hilarious.” Yahoo does it all the time. I’ll decide what is hilarious, not someone trying to pimp a story.


10 posted on 11/29/2013 11:11:51 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Point taken. And furthermore, they didn’t share the new video — just last year’s. But, it was cute. Doesn’t qualifiy as hilarious, however.


11 posted on 11/29/2013 11:13:55 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: wku man
A young person in my family claims to be a vegan (but still wears the leather motorcycle jacket I gifted him/her), and ate "tofurkey" at Thanksgiving dinner yesterday. As a so-called vegan, this young person is militant, and has practically no sense of humor. Trying to inject some humor in the situation, I asked him/her what a tofurkey call would sound like. With the snarling surliness that only a know-it-all Generation.commer can conjure up, he/she snapped, "well, it's not a scream of pain".

I know hindsight is always 20/20, and I personally always think of perfect comebacks far after they are useful, but you could have replied, "you mean like the scream of pain the cow gave out to make your jacket?"

12 posted on 11/29/2013 11:39:53 AM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: wku man
Tofurky? Blech!! That young leftist is in for a hard, rude awakening. I reckon it takes about 10 years for all the brainwashing to wear off.

As for Tofurky!!!:::!!! Is there ANYTHING more disgusting?


13 posted on 11/29/2013 6:13:53 PM PST by Bon of Babble (Don't want to brag...but I can still fit into the earrings I wore in high school!!)
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To: Bon of Babble

What is that,

It looks a bit like that whale that exploded.


14 posted on 11/29/2013 6:24:23 PM PST by Chickensoup (we didn't love freedom enough... Solzhenitsyn.)
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To: Chickensoup

Supposedly it’s “tofurky” but who knows?

Enough to swear me off anything vegetarian for a lifetime!!

DH overcooked the turkey yesterday to a burnt crisp and it didn’t look anywhere near that bad.


15 posted on 11/29/2013 7:18:43 PM PST by Bon of Babble (Don't want to brag...but I can still fit into the earrings I wore in high school!!)
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To: Bon of Babble

What IS that thing??? It looks like the Alien eggs opening up in that movie . . . . Yikes!


16 posted on 11/29/2013 11:15:14 PM PST by Hetty_Fauxvert (FUBO, and the useful idiots you rode in on!)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

“You might want to cut back on the caffeine in your coffee or increase your fibre intake.”

More imperial humor?


17 posted on 11/30/2013 3:08:32 AM PST by Slambat
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Later


18 posted on 11/30/2013 3:20:22 AM PST by I_be_tc
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