Can anyone shed any light on the strange rumour that the old Captain Bird's Eye was sacked and replaced with the new "hunky" version, because it came to light that the old Cap'n was, in fact, a woman. Seeing as how my own father was cast as the good Captain in an office looky-likey competition, I have a vested interest in knowing the truth.
This is both untrue and wrong. My mum used to work as a REP for Birds Eye way back in the early eighties, and did an in-store demonstration of fish fingers (why?) and such like with THE Captain Birdseye one time (one time). He was indeed a fella, and a nice one too. Unfortunately my mum went on to have nightmares for days about hordes of screaming kids descending upon her demanding small sections of fish finger. The REAL dirt in Birdseye lies in the devastated hopes of The Birdseye Twins, focus of a HUGE advertising campaign that was lost to the nation due to the ITV strike... Mark +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+