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It’s a time-honored tradition for tourists to attempt to distract the stiff upper-lipped Royal Guards in London, who have gained a measure of fame for their ability to ignore all forms of diversion.

As part of the introduction of the “Whassup” Budweiser campaign into the British Isles, a couple of the characters from the commercials decided to see if they could get a member of the Guard to utter the now-famous catch phrase. With video rolling, they mugged and “Whassuped” in front of the guard for several minutes.

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