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Feb 7, 2021 · The origin of 'Lovely Jubbly'. It is impossible to know exactly where Only Fools and Horse's writer John Sullivan picked up the phrase but it is pretty much universally accepted that the origins lie in an advert around the 1950s and 60s. The Jubbly was actually an orange flavoured drink which could also be frozen and eaten as an ice lolly.
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Jun 4, 2014 · I thought the saying was lubbly jubbly bad it came from an advert years ago for an orange iced drink! Rushingabout October 4, 2014 At 11:26 am It came from an Orange Drink in a funny shaped carton like a twisted box tube, a decent newsagent would put some in the ice cream freezer so for about 4d (old pennies0 you had the biggest lolly ever. luvly Jubbly
Mar 8, 2021 · Lovely Jubbly. This soon became one of Del Boy’s famous catchphrases, and was supposedly borrowed from an advertising slogan for Jubbly Orange Drink, sold in a pyramid-shaped paper carton. Sullivan had remembered it and thought it would be a suitable expression for Del Boy to use. It certainly caught on.
Oct 5, 2024 · Based on the 1950s slogan “lubbly Jubbly” advertising Jubbly, an orange-flavoured soft drink. The modified version was coined by the English television scriptwriter John Sullivan (1946–2011) as an expression generally used by the character Derek “Del Boy” Trotter, a market trader from London, in the BBC television comedy Only Fools ...
< lovely adj. + jubbly, after lubbly Jubbly, a 1950s advertising slogan for Jubbly, an orange-flavoured soft drink; coined by John Sullivan (1946–2011) in his BBC television series Only Fools & Horses (1981–91, followed by Christmas specials in 1996 and 2001–3) as a characteristic expression of Derek ‘Del Boy’ Trotter, a Peckham market trader.
Nov 25, 2022 · Jubbly ice lollies, which you can still find in the freezers at supermarkets today in their distinctive pyramid shaped packaging, ran an ad campaign in the 1950s which coined the unusual slogan 'lubberly jubbly'. Del Boy putting his own twist on this as a child of the 50s and creating the phrase you hear in the show.
Lovely jubbly antiques, there are - beautiful antiques, lovely jubbly people. And I guess these programmes are lovely jubbly programmes! Downloads Transcript (pdf - 42k)
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