The Budweiser ‘wassup‘ advert sparked quite a few parodies back in its day – including some from the company itself, but there was one in particular I was especially fond of in which the ‘wasssuuuup’s were replaced by Yorkshiremen saying ‘ey up’ instead. Fast forward a few years and a conversation with my girlfriend resulted in me trying to rediscover this lost gem but to no avail. No searches on Youtube or any strings I tried in Google* revealed what I was looking for, so I basically gave up.
Until now.
You can thank the one and only Paul Fletcher for this, as I happened upon on email of his – purely by chance – back from the beginning of 2001 with this attached. I’ve found a shit-ton of emails going way back to 1997, so I’ll no doubt bore you with some more blasts from the pasts later. Current ideas include various Minor Threat Q2 demos, early email signatures of the rich and famous (ScanmaN, Shad, Boothy…) and so on.
[*] Cue some nerd posting a direct link in the comments.
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You’re welcome!!! ;)
Bleeding miraculous! I’ve been looking for this for 5 years just so my boyfriend can have a listen. There I was, tiredly typing “Eyup” (being a yorkshire burd) into the Google™ search engine instead of the Facebook™ message box and whaddaya know? Tadaaaa! Thanks Fletch, may all your lottery tickets be winning ones.
I’m pretty stoked that a search for ‘eyup’ led you to my site. I feel like I’ve arrived on the Internet.