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    Anyone familiar with tele-shopping's Horst Fuchs?

    He's the guy in the blue suit that trys to sell you all kinds of crap that you didn't know you needed with appaling american style 30 minute adverts. Things like:

    - The Hot Plate
    - Pro-Steam (An iron (that's eye-ron for you yanks ;-) that actually uses steam to get rid of wrinkles. Amazing!)
    - The Doubletta Kochsystem
    - And the Merlin 1-2-3 (with amazing 3D-Effect™!) which looks surprisingly similar to the Magic Mixer which bares more than a passing resemblance to The Magic Bullet, this in turn looks a tad like the Magic Master Quick Chef... hmmm.

    Normally when you buy this crap. You end up getting two of them, yep, they are so popular they can afford to give away two for the price of one! It's nothing to do with the warehouses being full to the rafters with shite... or so I'm lead to believe :-)

    This is him:
    http://www.horstfuchs.com/pages/683709/index.htm :-)
    http://www.horstfuchs.com/pages/683709/index.htm

    I think he's very funny... the adverts are awful, so awful infact that they are actually quite good.

    Anyone else find him funny?
    AuthorStephen21 Feb 06, 23:20
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    quote from http://www.horstfuchs.com/pages/683709/index.htm:

    "TV Werbe Show´s: "

    #1Authoraaarrrggghh!21 Feb 06, 23:34
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    A professor of mine in college found this sort of thing so funny that his wife used to invite vacuum cleaner salesmen, encyclopedia salesmen, etc. to visit in the evening. The family had no television, but after dinner they would make popcorn, sit on the couch, and have "live theater" in their own living room, watching some poor schmoo gives his sales pitch.

    Bad salesmen trying in vain to sell unwanted products can indeed be funny, if perhaps in a somewhat sadistic way.

    I occasionally enjoy playing with telemarketers, sounding really eager, pretending there is someone at the door, leaving them on hold for minutes at a time, telling them that the washing machine is jumping across the floor, cruelly ignoring the fact that these poor people have been reduced to this just to earn some money.

    As time has gone on, I've gotten fewer and fewer of these calls. I suspect the word is out.
    #2AuthorTom22 Feb 06, 00:31
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    I sometimes watch those adverts in the morning as the entertainment value is on par with breakfast TV and that guy is hilarious!
    Is it possible that he's a cross-clone of Frank from Eastenders and Jim Bowen of Bullseye fame??
    #3AuthorNicole (UK)22 Feb 06, 08:19
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    "- Pro-Steam (An iron (that's eye-ron for you yanks ;-) that actually uses steam to get rid of wrinkles. Amazing!)"

    I thought that we discussed this in detail and decided that we Yanks say eye-earn....

      related discussion:pronunciation of "iron"

    Sorry, don't watch the adverts!
    #4Authorgirly-girl22 Feb 06, 08:38
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    Oh, my Wive's friend married an American and he always says Eye-ron!

    I think he looks like a cross between Del-Boy from Fools and Horses and Frank in Eastenders.
    #5AuthorStephen22 Feb 06, 10:57
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    Something you might also enjoy: "Die Blume der Hausfrau"
    It is a documentary about a bunch of salesmen trying to sell vacuum cleaners. Hilarious!
    #6Authorargus22 Feb 06, 18:03
     
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