Giles Andreae an advertising campaign for the soft drink Vimto. Purple Ronnie was sold in April 2007 to Coolabi, the small UK company which manages the Hammer House of Horror brand, for £3.3m. Since then the company have tried to break the US market by adapting the designs and language to suit. Giles Andreae Giles Andreae (born 16 March 1966) is a British artist, poet and greeting card writer, creator of the "Purple Ronnie" and "Edward Monkton" series. As a child Andreae went to Eton College where he was best friends with David Cameron. He then went on to Oxford University (Worcester
Ahoy (greeting) as an informal greeting, comparable to ""Hello"". It was borrowed from English and became popular among people engaged in water sports. It gained wide currency by the 1930s. Two discoveries in Middle High German literature reveal interjections similar to "ahoi". Their forms show no links to the middle English form "hoy" and their meanings offer little connection to the call used to establish contact. In around 1290 Heinrich von Freiberg used the form "ahiu" twice in his adaptation of Tristan as a greeting: "ahiu, Parmenois Tristan!", alongside "ahiu, wie schône sie het sich ûz gefêgetieret", English: "ahiu, how prettily she