A spin off from the 1976 advertising campaign for Unigate milk, watch out there's a Humphrey about, you never saw a Humphrey only a line of red & white drinking straws.
In the afternoon on the commercial TV channel, there would be an announcement the the following commercials were part of the new advertising campaign for xxxxx, they would then show all the campaign commercials back to back, the Humphrey adverts were first shown as one of these.
At the time of this campaign my girlfriend (later Wife) and me had just moved into our first house, money was very tight. that year the company I worked for made a massive loss, and as a consequence the stopped all overtime, at the time I was relying on some overtime to make ends meet, as I worked nights I decided to get a pert time job during the day, I ended up working as a lunchtime barman in a Truman's pub, at this time Truman's and Unigate were both owned by Grand Metropolitan Hotels, advertisements for the Humphry campaign were put up in the pub but they kept disappearing, the assistant manager, one of the barmaids was supposed to go out with the trainee manager, for some reason he did not turn up (he may have had to work if there was a staff shortage) she went out with one of the patrons who was a milkman, after the one night stand she found out she was pregnant, for her the "I've been Humphried" had to totally different meaning, she took Umbridge at the posters and quietly removed them when no one was watching.
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