Chasing a Meme in London
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A Jago video without even a mention of a train?! It must be protected, for it is rarer than unicorn farts!
I'm sure if he'd stopped for a few minutes there could have been a reference to Charles Tyson Yerkes bringing electricity to the Underground. I do like a good C.T.Y. reference.
Still mentions stations though
You missed the one on Bile’s beans?
Let electricity do it ... I don't think the electric chair was available for households.
@@trevorelliston1 I think that one mentioned the National Railway Museum though.
"Don't kill your wife with work, let electicity do it!". That's given me an idea! She's in for a shock...
The power of pronouns! This was my initial reaction until I realised "it" meant "the work".
@@tahirarafique4620 which is grammatically correct. Pronouns do refer to the last previous noun.
Flower pedals leading to the bathroom, where you have set up a bubble bath, scented candles, and fresh toast.
That’s how I first read it
@@joshuabessire9169
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It's reassuring to know that even native English speakers can inadvertently produce something like this. I'm reminded of the Swedish vacuum cleaner that didn't sell terribly well in the USA because of its slogan "Nothing sucks like an Electrolux".
I'm fairly sure it wasn't inadvertent.
Humour pre-dates electricity.
Wasn't it Vauxhall that tried to market the Nova in South America? After poor sales they realised that Nova in Spanish means "won't go".
Possibly apocryphal, but there's also the "Wang cares" adverts.
@@johnspurgeon9083 That's an urban myth. It was Chevrolet, and the Nova actually sold better in South America than expected. Nobody who spoke Spanish was going to confuse "Nova" with "no va", they read and sound completely differently, just as an English speaker would not confuse "carpet" and "car pet". The final nail in the coffin of the myth is that a Spanish speaker would not use the phrase "no va" to mean "doesn't go" anyway, even though it's a literal (although ungrammatical) translation.
Dr Scott's Electric Hair Brush, now *there's* a name for a band
I'm hereby claiming that name, hands off!
😂😂😂❤
Great Scott!
You beat me to it.
@@vacuumdiagram Frank N. Furter! We meet at last!
I saw Jago Hazzard last night in the pub with Charles Tyson Yerkes! Sure that is the perfect alibi that won't spark any curiosity!
Shocking !.
it would: was he fighting Yerkes over being American or swindling money from Brits?
...There are lines of common interest connecting them....
It's reassuring to find that even an Englishman can't read English place names with certainty.
An electrifying tale unampered by current puns.
Or the BBC Ohm Service . . .
I see volt you did there... don't think I didn't!
I only comment with resistance and without impedance.
There are some bright sparks commenting on this thread!
Temp here ( Levin NZ ) promises to be 17*... the current pun will be doing its job.
Have to admite Jago's capacitor for humour.
me: Oh look a funny meme!
Jago: let's talk about electricity in London in the 1920s
me: ok, sure
Very enjoyable. Sorry to hear about your wife. These things happen, of course.
I am sure Lady Hazzard was well insured and that Jago will endure his sorrow with fortitude.
17 Sept 1916, "The Morning Call" (Santa Barbara, Calif newspaper, but attributed to the Detroit Free Press): "A southern laundry advertises: 'Don't kill your wife. Let us do the dirty work.' "
There used to be a laundry and dry cleaner's on Green Street near Upton Park station with a clock bearing the simpler slogan "Don't kill your wife. Let us do it". Whether it predates the Willesden example, I don't know.
I seem to recall the sign from the 1950s, but no idea when it first appeared. There is still a laundry business in part of the building.
I remember that one, too, was about to comment about it!
Now in the Passmore Edwards collection.
Always raised a smile that did on the walk from the station to They Boleyn Ground every other week. Never tired of it, the hustle and bustle, the smell of fried opinions and burgers, Ken's Cafe, etc. Sigh. Never to be repeated.
Thank you, Jago. We are now no longer in the dark!
Do not kill your wife with electricity!! Hard work is cheaper and your less likely to get prosecuted😂😂😂😂😂😂
But Charles Yerkes must have been involved, somehow
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Electricity did the work for him, 3rd rail. His wife probably badly earthed, or well insulated…?
..generating plans,, or lines of development.....
Hi Jago One of these ads is on display in the Milne Electricity Hall in the Amberley Museum in West Sussex. If you or your viewers or anybody interested in industrial heritage haven't been there, I can highly recommend it. It's a cracking day out and right next to Amberley railway station so easily accessible by train.
I agree. I was a volunteer there when it first opened under the not-so-appealing name of ‘The Chalk Pits Museum’.
As it's the Milne Elec. Hall I should think it is always a crackling good day.
It's comforting to see that ignorance of the apostrophe is nothing new!
I can just see some spotty clerk in Willesden sniggering when drafting this advert and thinking, nobody else will see the double entendre.
2:02 *‘DR. SCOTT’S ELECTRIC HAIR BRUSH’* ah yes, completely forgot he had a career before rocky horror…
My dear departed Grandfather worked for the Westminster , Kensington and Chelsea Electricity Board in the 1930s , which became part of the London Electricity Board post-WW2 Not particularly interesting for you but aided my enjoyment of the video . Also his Father was a farrier who worked on the railways at Nine Elms ...
Redeemed and then some by the last sentence.
In the 1950s I lived not far from Salusbury Road, and used the Library that is still there to this day. Our electricity was supplied by 'The Fixed Price Light Company' and I recall that it was a twin wire supply with no Earth connection. How did they get away with it?
That's how they do it now. Your earth is on an earth rod in (outside) your house or to the water pipes.
@@paulsengupta971In the UK several different kinds of earthing (grounding) arrangements are permitted depending on the District Network Operator’s (supply company) connection.
The so-called 'neutral' is effectively an earth...
But onto more important things - how was that road name pronounced?!!
So how DO you pronounce Salusbury?
@@katycarr9819 sorlsbury
Walking through Wapping one day I noticed an inscription 'The London Hydraulic Power Company' on an old industrial building. I learned that there was once a network of pipes supplying pressurised water to drive machinery and equipment to businesses across London. Some of it was still in use into the 1970s.
Great video on an alternating topic. Thanks.
There was an hydraulic lift in the British Museum which I used several times c. 1974
a topic directly responsible for some diversion? :)
My mother belonged to the "Electrical Ladies"
as she called it.
It was officially the "Electrical Association for Women"
and was a feminist and educational charity
aimed to educate women on how to use electricity in the home.
Definitely think there is something to say about the history of electricity
in London as an occasional series in the Jago Hazzard canon.
BTW I did laugh out loud to the amusement of the others at your parting line!
Jimi Hendrix recorded the album Electric Ladyland, and his rhythm section was English. So that could be where he got it from.
Women of power, obviously.
A meme to go with that old chestnut 'Stay In The Pink With Ciggies And Drink!"
The original Edison type power stations generated DC at low voltage which couldn't get far and therefore needed a lot of small power stations. The later Tesla type AC was much higher voltage and could go run distances without getting tired. Tesla was a clever bloke but mad as a box of frogs.
beat me to it!!
Odd that the current user of the name 'Tesla'' is also madder than a box of frogs.
I believe in the AC/DC war in the Sates, a dog was killed to show that one of the types was more dangerous, but that may be apocryphal.
Edison was also as mad as a box of frogs, and zapped a number of animals in public in an attempt to put people off AC power.
20:59 that made me laugh! Good old fashioned joke that so many people have forgotten how to laugh… there’s too much seriousness in this world! Thank goodness for much light and education from your vlogs ☺️
The lack of an apostrophe in "Dont" is
A) triggering and
B) makes me doubt its authenticity.
There's never a greengrocer around when you need one to check your punctuation.
Ahh, quite clearly, the advertisment is addressed to Mr Dont, the notorious uxoricide, suggesting _two_ ways for his disposal of unwanted spouses.
Sometimes these things are (faulty) recreations of things that once existed.
@@caw25sha the greengrocer nearby was the problem, he stole the apostrophe because he had used all of his up! I say this lovingly as the son of a greengrocer with appalling spelling and punctuation skills.
@@Tevildo An alternative to Mr Right, the much sort after potential husband.
"this felt a little... for want of a better word... cute". That killed me :D
Worth mentioning that Savoy Theatre was allegedly the first building in London to be lit entirely by electricity using Joseph Swan's lightbulb which was on the market in the UK before Edison's version.
Is Swann the guy who once attempted to use his own beard hair as a test filament?
In that theatre, Arthur Sullivan decided to put lights in his baton so the orchestra could see him during the first ever theatrical blackout… (blackouts weren’t possible in the days of gas lamps).
I've found an advert in the Somerset Standard dated Friday 11th June 1937 which has the slogan "Don't kill your wife with housework! Let a CWS vacuum cleaner do the work". CWS being the Co-operative Wholesale Society (Froome branch in this case).Even closer I've found another advert from March 1940 placed by a shop in Ashbourne called MikiJohns which runs : " An Advertiser once said : 'Don't kill your wife with housework! Let us do it for you by electricity!". The advertising copy goes on thus: "This is not what he intended to convey but what he did intend is obvious" and goes on to laud the virtues of buying an Electric Washer (washing machine). Both of these tend to indicate that the phrase had been in circulation for some time.
A search for "don't kill your wife let us do it clock" will bring up photos of an Upton Park dry cleaners Blossom and Browne's Sycamore, that used to be opposite the tube station. The phrase was quite prominent on a clock above the door.
Not a 'tube' station - that's the District Line!
@@paulhaynes8045 with walkthrough cars the train is the tube. 😁
@@CyclingSteve I discovered they've got those on the Thameslink services too, the other day. On the Underground, with all its tight bends, they look ok, but on the much straighter Thameslink lined, you can see down the entire length of the (much longer) train, and I found that quite disturbing!
It's gone now, but you can see it if you go back a few years. Shame it was removed.
This reminds me of something in one of my undergrad textbooks (Marcus and Segal's _Technology in America: A Brief History,_ second edition, if you're curious). On page 177, there's a reprint of a vintage vacuum cleaner advertisement that reveals one of my favorite things about the earliest days of electrification: For a short period after the realization that it could be useful for more than just lighting, no one had really figured out _how_ to use it for more than just lighting.
The ad features an illustration of an improbably-well-dressed woman cleaning a rug in what looks like a parlor with an early upright vacuum cleaner... the electrical cord of which appears to be hanging straight down from somewhere above the picture. The explanation is that it's connected to the light fixture in the ceiling, in place of the incandescent bulb that would normally be there. The, uh, limitations of this approach should be fairly obvious, but... that's how they did it before someone invented the wall outlet, at least here in the US. :)
Often still done like that here in the UK when I was kid - 50s/60s.
Yes I remember that too. Many appliances had a round 2-pin plug (nominally 5amp but no fuses of course) with an adapter attached by a piece of braided cord. Adapter converted the 2 pin plug to a bayonet (light bulb) fitting.
The appliance I most remember being used in this way was the iron. It was quite common to see someone ironing, with the iron plugged into the ceiling light socket.
I don't remember anyone ever plugging a vacuum cleaner or washing machine (for instance) into a light socket, so I assume that we did have normal power sockets by then. So perhaps the ironing thing was some sort of hangover from the days when there were no sockets. It had become the way you used an iron.
Or perhaps it was to do with the length of the flex, and the fact that sockets in the UK were usually placed at skirting board level, so were inconvenient for anything that was used at ironing board level and/or wasn't permanently plugged in.
But the thing that always puzzled me about this was that, if you plugged the iron into the light socket, you had to remove the light bulb - which meant you were ironing in poor light! And you couldn't even move the ironing board towards a window, as the light fitting in the UK was invariably in the middle of the ceiling!
This from Wikipedia "Ferranti or Ferranti International PLC was a UK electrical engineering and equipment firm that operated for over a century from 1885 until it went bankrupt in 1993. The company was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. "
I seem to remember Ferranti in computing (printer, PC, monitor et al) when on the acclaimed £16.50/week YTS back in the day...
You made it through 5 minutes of this topic without even mentioning the obvious call to femicide! Good job! 😁
Also, thanks for having "Solsbury Hill" stuck in my head now!
Can you see the city lights?
Sign I saw on a shop: "Don't Go Elsewhere And Get Robbed...Come In Here!"
"Don't kill your wife with work, let the thing that Jago inserted into the video do it!"
This slogan was reported in a letter to the Times, published on 19 March 1936.
Thank you for the research!
I must admit, I was SHOCKED by this installment from Jago, not a train in sight during the main pressentation, not even an electric one.... (still a good one though)
The supply of domestic electricity wasn't standardised until after WWII. Some areas had a monopoly supplier, but I have heard of some areas with a choice of 3 different voltage suppliers. Apart from anything else any mains device had to be manufactured in many different versions for the different supplies.
Gas did try to complete. You could get gas powered fridges and radios between the wars.
I think my parents had a gas fridge in the 70s in their caravan. Calor gas obviously, not the household stuff.
We had a gas fridge in the 1950s and 1960s in North London
Gas fridges were still made well into the 70's, still are for camping and Caravans. Many people changed to electric as many older gas ones could not be converted to Natural Gas or bought a new gas one.
I grew up in a house built in the 1930s which contained the remnants of 3 different standards for mains socket layouts; 2 pin European style, 3 round pins with a larger earth pin and the UK standard one we know today.
Gas fired fridges are still manufactured, aimed at people who don’t have a good electric supply but can get gas, and those Amish who tolerate some technology but not any involving electricity.
This video is a bit TOO local for me - nearly choked on my snack when you said Salusbury (pronounced Sallsbury) Road! The location is a short walk from Queens Park station. Then you go to Taylors Lane power station, which I can see from my bedroom window.. is Jago out there??
He's always out there somewhere...
Could be Jago's most shocking video ever. But it's good that he keeps things current 😂
I remember a cinema advert as last as about 1960 for a Smethwick (near Birmingham( laundry with the slogan 'Don't kill your wife with washing. Let us do it for you,' I think I saw the same advert with a different laundry name in Worcester even later.
There used to be a variation of the slogan above an electrical appliance shop in Green Street, Forest Gate, E.London. A big yellow sign, it was something along the lines of "Don't kill your wife with work, let us do it". I remember it clearly because my dad took me there specially to see it in the 1960's LOL.
I know one similar in Upton Park near the old stadium saying close to that. But it's a laundry.
@@tw25rw Oh, wow, yes that's jogged my memory, it was indeed a laundry advert. I think the electrical goods bit must have got muddled into it because of the video subject.
The Ferranti company was still making electrical / electronic stuff (including radar and electronics for Tornado fighter bombers) until it went bankrupt in the 1990s.
JAGO: You are the Direct Current to my Alternating Current ⚡️
Reminds me of ‘Hundreds use our service - They don’t know any better!’ And ‘The first time I took Phensic, I got this awful headache’
That one has been taped up on the fusebox downstairs for some time.
I grew up living in a flat in Walthamstow. From our balcony we had a good view of the local power station on the horizon - not far from Walthamstow (Queens Road). It was coal fired and no doubt contributed to the goods traffic on the otherwise commuter line.
The Esteemed Jago fully switched on as always--no resistance from me. .. says LeviNZ keeping in the circuit of local knowledge.... trivial aside.. the smalll ex coalmining town of Reefton was the first town in NZ to have electric lighting...>>>"With mining came technology and innovation, and in August 1888 Reefton became the first place in New Zealand and the Southern Hemisphere to have a public supply of electricity, even before the fashionable suburbs of London."
I was quite confident at guessing “You are the power station to my ”, so “alibi” and the rest took me by surprise!
That must be your funniest sign off yet! Interesting stuff.
There used to be (still is?) a similar sign on a laundrette in Green Street, Upton Park: “ Don’t kill your wife, let us do it”.
Reminds me of Rumbelows. Remember them? "Saves you money and serves you right." We had a lot of fun changing the tone of that one. And they had a sign in the window; "Nothing sucks like an electrolux." Which, as you can imagine, garnered a LOT of suggestive graffiti.
I love how you can make any topic seem powerful and current, Jago! And given the UK's state of electricity supply and production, it's very timely too.
It also tangentially fits your previous videos about electrification of the rail lines around London, so double win.
All comments about electricity must be current.
How exciting! It's like tracking down 221B Baker Street (which was nowhere near where the current day Sherlock Holmes Museum has it, as the numbering has been completely changed since then and it would actually have been much further down towards Oxford Street, but I'm going off on a non sequitur here)
Is nothing sacred?
My Grandma was supplied with DC electricity in Wood Green until the early 1950s. She only switched on the electric lamps to light the gas lamp. She claimed that the gas light also gave heat and, thus, saved coal which was in short supply just after the war.
Finchley Telephone Exchange and two local printers had a DC supply for the motors on certain equipment until 1953. I was an apprentice and helped in the changing of the DC motors to AC ones.
Hello Jago, as a local and the son of an electrical engineer who worked there in the days of the old L.E.B. I can assure you that it's pronounced as in the cathedral city in Wiltshire, ie Salisbury.
You brighten my day, jago. with the glow of the screen, of course
1:25 Ok, I’ll just buy a battery pack off Amazon.
Definitely "Sawls-bry".
Refreshingly different. It takes me back to the days of the High Street having shops for the Electricity Board and the Gas Board, selling appliances and good advice (ish).
The Electrical Contracting Company i use to work for use to put Est 1898. In the reception they had the first electric motor developed by the company in the wild west days of Electricity. My Nan said her Kettle never worked right when they converted it to 240 Volts from the system in there area.
I wonder if the possibility of a mains powered philatelic was the main reason for the slogan... 🤔🤣
An electric stamp-collector?
Cool T there at the end of DEPT at 4:35. Not to mention the dot at the bottom of the exclamation mark on WORK!
Well spotted! I remember abbreviated words often being written in that way on signs, etc, when I was a kid.
Electricity was certainly important to my mother's work. Her first job was at Deptford Power station.
Nice to see it 3.29 , although it looked a bit different by the time she started work there, in 1951.
I've always thought that Jago was a bright spark - and this video proves it ! 😎
Jago is electrifying
Who doesn’t like a good old meme before the internet came in the late 1980s and now you see memes everywhere on the internet and on social media platforms.
Everyone loves a good meme. Even when there wasn’t no internet back in the good old days of advertisements that adverts were being shown all over the world.
I thoroughly enjoyed this, I've missed the London history videos of old!
WooHoo .... first comment! Always love your output JH.
It doesn't always have to be transport to be eclectic to be enjoyable!
There was (I think still is but resited) a plaque about local electricity on Manor Place in Southwark.
Shocking - but brilliant and enlightening nonetheless!
Brilliant, just brilliant!
Jago - that was very electrifying!!! He he 😉😁🚂🚂🚂
Don't think they would go down to well today, as a tad sexist like that wartime one about watching what one spoke about "Be like Dad and keep Mum".
I mean, how much is sexism, and how much is 'joke referencing the actual state of things at the time'? Either way it doesn't age well, of course... though in the latter case it's at least partially precisely because of the very thing they're talking about (the normalisation of using electrical appliances to substantially reduce the amount of work involved in doing housework) actually happened.
Absolutely shocking episode Jago! 😂
Edison ended up having little actual input on the power generation, it was British Thomson-Houston that was doing it: Edison sold his shares in General Electric, British Thomson-Houston’s corporate owner, in 1890. they and British Westinghouse fought over the rights to distribute power, developing technology, and manufacturing equipment.
A history of electricity in London and no mention of the first electric street lighting in Brixton, Then again Eddy Grant is say “Don’t do electric avenue”
In his one and only hit song!!
Jago has made a video about that already. (He's getting like The Simpsons.)
My one big red flag about its historicity is the lack of apostrophe.
"More than a flash in the pan" b'dum t'sk
Is this an ad for an electric chair?
Ah you are such a bright spark Jago to bring us such a shocking tail
sorry to hear about Mrs Hazzard's passing
3:12 Did someone recognise you?
Thanks. That was in interesting meander through the beginnings of an electrified London. I shall assume that it was a similar story in the provinces. Unless of course, you advise us otherwise. 😊❤😊
Well, Boomer Humor had to come from somewhere...
Brilliant, as usual.
What's that background noise at 3:12? Never heard anything like that before in one of Jago's videos.
I think it was a passer by talking.
I think it was someone on Mr. Edison's Portable Telephonic Communication Device going by as that bit was being filmed
1950s is a convenient time period to think of boomer humour but sexist ads have always existed, I guess.
"Boomer Humor Meme" Lol!!!! Yes, I enjoyed this vid.
Cool, Jeaney Collects posted! Wait this sounds like Jago Hazzard.
Nowadays or might be “Don’t kill yourself with work, let ai do it.”
Sorta related, but something I'd love to see you do is try and find a physical copy of the London Gazette for sale, it claims to be the uk's oldest newspaper but has an extremely small circulation. So is there anywhere outside of their own website where it's available?
Interesting tale Dear Jago,however Shocking the ending...
Great idea for a video! 🙂
A shocking advert indeed
And to anyone who thinks it unrealistic that a self-respecting agency would use such a painfully punning slogan, I direct your attention to the billboards in my city that say, "Your wife is hot... time to get your AC fixed!"
Isn't that a slogan from the war between AC and DC power companies? I know DC power was the standard initially, but AC had better transmission/distribution. There were events and ads about AC being deadly (and powering the electric chair).
Absolutely not surprised by the title especially on this channel. #CallMeTheFunPolice