Bex
compound analgesic
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A Cup of Tea, a Bex and a Good Lie Down - Wikipedia
April 25, 2024 - A Cup of Tea, a Bex and a Good Lie Down is a 1965 Australian stage revue by John McKellar. The title references Bex, which was a popular compound analgesic in Australia at the time.
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Bex (compound analgesic) - Wikipedia
December 28, 2024 - Bex was a product of Beckers Pty ... South Australia, but which relocated to Sydney in the 1960s. It was advertised with the phrase, "Stressful Day? What you need is a cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down". Bex powders, as well as other APC products such as Vincent's, were particularly seen ...
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‘a cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down’: meanings and origin
October 30, 2023 - 4: The phrase [a cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down] can be traced to a satiric revue of that name first performed in Sydney in 1965 at the Phillip Street Theatre. […] The revue appears to have coined the phrase although variations undoubtedly had been used in Bex advertising, which often ...
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Bex Powders | The Dictionary of Sydney
Bex were promoted particularly to women with the advertising slogan ‘Stressful day? What you need is a cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down’. [4] The line has become part of the Australian vernacular and can be used to suggest that someone should relax and ease up.
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Day 98 A cup of Tea, a Bex and a good lie down | In this my 70th year
July 24, 2012 - Bex pills and powders are an Australian cultural icon immortalized in the title of a 1960s Philip Street Theatre review, itself borrowed from the vernacular: ‘A cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down’. And while everyone knew that the analgesic properties of the aspirin, phenacetin and caffeine ...
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A cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down - Australian Pharmacist
June 22, 2018 - In Australia, APCs such as Bex, Vincent’s and Veganin were the most widely used with the marketing phrase “A cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down” becoming a common slang expression.
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Social satirist who gave us 'Bex and a good lie down' dies, aged 80
September 14, 2010 - The man who wrote his way into the Australian vernacular courtesy of his 1960s show A Cup Of Tea, A Bex and a Good Lie Down has died. Comedy writer John McKellar died on September 6, aged 80, having fuelled Australia's love of satire as resident writer at Sydney's Phillip Street Theatre in ...
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A cup of tea, a BEX, and a good lie down. - History - Social Australia
October 25, 2021 - Bex, Vincent's and Aspro were the go-to pain relievers of the first two thirds of the 20th Century in Australia, and were made in Australia from the beginning of WWl. The pain killers were composed of three ingredients, Aspirin, Phenacetin and caffeine. Aspirin is the synthetic form of salicylic ...
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A Cup Of Tea, A BEX, And A Good Lie Down… | timalderman
September 5, 2021 - 1979: Banned powders still on sale in Sydney First published in the Sydney Morning Herald on September 5, 1979 Compound painkillers which were banned from sale from July 1 are still freely sold across the counter in Sydney. Chemists as well as other retailers were found breaking the law yesterday.
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The Daily Blog – A cup of tea, a Bex, and a good lie down
April 16, 2024 - Bex powders were developed and sold in Australia in the 20th century. They were marketed to women under stress as “why don’t you have a cup of tea, a Bex, and a good lie down”. So much so that the …
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A Cup of Tea a Bex, and A Good Lie Down
A Cup of Tea a Bex and Good Lie Down
A Cup of Tea a Bex, and A Good Lie Down(Comedy Revue)
John Ewart,Gloria Dawn,Ruth Cracknell,Reg Livermore
1965 Phillip Theatre Sydney Souvenir Program
A Cup of Tea, a Bex and a Good Lie Down was a comedy revue that opened at Sydney's Phillip Street Theatre on 18 September 1965. It was the longest running show at the Theatre in 1966 and was performed over 250 times during its extended run. The cast included John Ewart, Gloria Dawn, Ruth Cracknell and Reg Livermore. The play was written by John McKellar.
The play's subject matter was Bex, a strong compound analgesic in the
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Bex was not the benign headache cure people imagined.
October 7, 2022 - Mother’s little helper. Bex and similar over- the-counter drugs were at the height of their popularity in Australia during the 1950s and 60s. Claimed as a cure for all…
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A Cup of Tea, A Bex and A Good Lie Down | Cup Tea, Bex Lie
What you need is a cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down". Bex powders were the housewife's drug of choice in the 1950s and 1960s until they were shown to be highly addictive and responsible for causing kidney disease when taken in large doses. The expression 'A cup of tea, a Bex etc.' had gained currency through much of Australia ...
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Bex origins from 1920s at an Adelaide factory; powders taken with a cup of tea, a good lie down, kidney disease | Adelaide AZ
Bex origins from 1920s at an Adelaide factory; powders taken with a cup of tea, a good lie down, kidney disease
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“A cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down” was billed as mother’s little helper, but turned out to be a killer prescription. Today's Advertiser carried...