Ok who remembers the White Tide Man?

[Bobbisox]

or the OMO bloke who knocked at the door and if you had a box of the stuff to show him, you got a quid or something ridiculous....

[boxtops]

I do

[Bobbisox]

what was it you got again boxy ?

[champipple]

Thought it was daz

[Bobbisox]

might have been, who knows the answer ?

[craft1948]

I used to like the Esso Blue man....

[jackthehat]

The Daz Doorstep challenge ?

[Bobbisox]

arhhh jack that was much later with that somebody Baker bloke..
craft enough about your love life pet..lol

[jackthehat]

http://en.wikipedia.o...i/Daz_%28detergent%29

[Jan1957]

I vaguely remember my mum telling me about those.... :-)

[Bobbisox]

ha-ha Jan...ok :-0)

that was in the 80s jack, this was in the 60s/early 70s

[jackthehat]

http://www.whirligig-...verts/commercials.htm

[Bobbisox]

jack it wasn't a commercial , but a bloke dressed up in a white 'space suit' used to knock randomly on peoples doors...honestly!!!

[jackthehat]

So how did anyone find out about it...........?

[jno]

then in flies a guy who's all dressed up like a Union Jack, says I've won five pounds if I have his kind of detergent pack?

[sandyRoe]

I remember a team were delivering free samples of Omo in our street and somebody stole their van.

[Bobbisox]

when I was married the first tme in the 60s, I remember the exitement that buzzed around the street...he was in the area...sad innit..lol

[Bobbisox]

I didn't imagine it...ha-ha

[sandyRoe]

But for real excitement you'd want to hear that the TV detector van was in the area.

[Bobbisox]

now yer talking sandy...

[marval]

I don't remember The White Tide Man, here is a link to some old comercials.

If you scroll down it tells you about the The Daz White Knights, sounds similar.