another reason to switch to Persil in the UK if you have not already done so

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Recently an acquaintance traveled to Scotland to visit relatives and asked if there was anything he might bring back for me. I asked for tea and Persil. His parents are immigrants, and he and his wife and children flew to Scotland for a family reunion.

That said, I brought the Persil home in a tote along with my new box of
Taylor's of Harrowgate tea. Unloading them in the kitchen, what caught my
eye was neither the Persil front panel (OK, the £2.99 price proves that it
came from the UK) nor the directions for use, but rather the discovery that
Persil has a ROYAL WARRANT, as the attached photo proves.

This epiphany gives new meaning to the classic advertising phrase "someone's
mum still doesn't know that Persil washes whiter....and it shows." We can
now conclude that, while HM may not be able to distinguish a Hoover from a
Zanussi, she does know that "Persil washes whiter" and to stay the heck away
from Ariel. There is no indication of the warrant on the Persil website, but
it's still on the box for everyone shopping at Sainsburys to see. And
happily, HM is not one of the unfortunate, clueless UK mums referred to
during fifty years of telly ads as not knowing that "Persil washes whiter".

 

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I couldn't get the photo to upload with the message. But Persil HAS a royal warrant. And it shows.....

 

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Also here that's pretty common, despite we are a republic since 1946.

Some high end product still claim its firm was an official supplier of the royal house.
Maybe it works in UK, cause the Windsor are a different matter than "our" Savoy. Lately here it could be a disavantage ...

As a clue the guy that would be our actual king is an habituee of our version of "Strictly come dancing/Dancing with the stars" .....

Anyway I guess that now and then HM gets rid of all her maids and cooks for herself, to "taste" a bit of freedom. She and her family are actually prisoneer -golden prisoneer-
Once at home we are free to do our own business, they can't They are somewhat "guest" in their own home, not lords. Someone else is always there with them.

Someone would say "i wannea be at her place"
Have you ever had dinner in one of those hi end restaurant ?
Waiters always close to the table, as soon as your glass get empty they suddenly pour beverage.
Too much comfort has the lack of freedom as a big price

 

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1983 visit

In 1983, the Queen and the Duke made an official, but non-state visit, to California. She arrived during one of the stormiest winters on record (four times more rain than normal). She was supposed to give a formal dinner on board the HMS Britannia for local dignitaries in San Francisco. However, a violent storm made dining on ship impossible (mainly the problems of moving the guests in small boats out to the ship, which was anchored in the bay).

As a result, the dinner was canceled, but the Queen and her immediate party had an impromptu supper at a famous Polynesian/Chinese restaurant called Trader Vic's. Although the Queen occasionally has meals in hotels or large restaurants, they are formal banquets or luncheons arranged months in advance, with no choice in the menu, etc.

Apparently this was the first time since she became Queen when she could order anything she wished from a menu, as opposed to having the choices made months ahead by her staff. Evidently it was a great novelty for her to be able to choose whatever she pleased from a menu.

As far as anything being supplied to the House of Savoy, I don't think the fact that Marina Doria used a product would make me buy it!! Quite the contrary, she looks like a Mafia capo's wife with those dark glasses. Emanuelle Filiberto is not much better (but at least he didn't murder anyone on a yacht like Papa...).

 

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PS

I do not know what the Queen did not choose a restaurant in North Beach, which is the "Little Italy" section of San Francisco.

Grant Street is the southern end of China Town as well, which explains the Chinese characters beneath "Grant".

It is easier to display a map of Italy than to write "Little Italy".

 

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Royal Warrants are fairly common on lots of products in the UK. Fairy liquid has one too.

Benson & Hedges cigarettes used to have one - pure class! It was removed when it wasn't considered politically correct to have them on tobacco products.

Persil's just shows that the Royal slaves/housekeepers haven't been allowed to upgrade to Ariel yet. ;-)

 

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Anna was using an interpreter on the show

It was very rare to see a mystery guest use an interpreter, as most foreign guests did speak English well enough to do the show, as the following fellow Italians demonstrate:





I should explain that many celebrities who appeared on the program were in New York in connection with a movie premiere or a live play on Broadway in which they were appearing. The panel members were all very well informed about the arts and knew who was appearing in which films or plays, so they would often narrow down the possibilities by asking "are you appearing in a movie or play currently in New York?", etc.

Sometimes the celebrities were famous athletes or persons from politics, so that their voices were not always so well recognized. One time, however, EVERYONE in American recognized the voice:

 

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Note that Gina tried to speak with an American accent ("yeah"). She didn't seem to understand a few of the questions but the moderator repeated them for her slowly so she understood.

 

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Gina kept them guessing longer because she was better at disguising her voice. Also, Sophia appeared during a publicity visit to New York for the film "Two Women". The panelists knew that she was in New York (from reading the newspapers) so that information plus Sophia's foreign accent made it a fairly easy guess.

 

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why us italian mostly don't understand spoken american

Anywhere in the world movies are in their original languages and have subtitles ..... anywhere but Italy !

Actors and actresses are dubbed, no wonder we aren't so much into foreign tongues.

Not to mention that many of us aren't that much into italian too ...

Conjunctive verbs are a very common nightmare, not only for average common people, but also for some TV anchormen/women

BTW those Kelloggs ads make me want to have some milch and muesli now

 

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I think most film and TV is also dubbed in Germany. However, I agree it reaches its highest form in Italy, where the voice actors for the dubbing are actually celebrities themselves. We have that in USA when people provide voices for ANIMATED films (Disney, etc.), and many famous actors do the voices. But we don't have dubbing here unless it's a children's film. We see the subtitles and hear the original language/voices of the actors.

Bear in mind, on "What's My Line?", the panelists did not know at first if their mystery guest was an American or a foreign guest. Many of the American guests used fake foreign accents (German, French, British, Italian, etc.) to try to fool the panelists. Or they did something else to disguise their voice (a woman might use a deep man's voice, etc.).

Because the panelists were fairly well educated (Dorothy Kilgallen was a famous journalist, Bennett Cerf was head of Random House publishing company), their questions are often in rather complex English. When I think about it, it's possible that they made their English questions complex on purpose, knowing that if an American mystery guest understood the question, then the person probably was a native English speaker, despite using a fake foreign accent. Likewise, if they heard the moderator explain a question to the guest, quite likely the guest's accent was authentic. Or rarely, they used an interpreter as Anna Magnani did.

I don't know if Mastoianni, Fellini, or Rosellini ever appeared on What's My Line.