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I'm sure the Americans will whip our collective English butt on this one, but anyway.

There's this advert for Evian water that ends with "l'evian, live young". Live Young? What sort of semantically dubious bollocks is that? And then the barrel-scraping desperation of the whole thing hits you when they do the voiceover. The two parts are meant to sound the same! Except they don't, even though parts are selectively pronounced in a comedy French accent . And where did the l' come from. Don't get me started on the rest of the advert

So what's left you in shock that someone (or more likely an entire focus group) was actually paid big piles of wonga to come up with it?

― Graham, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Ambassador you spoil us so"

(Ambassador = Nazi lieutenant whose face is melted off by angel-demons in Raiders of the Lost Ark)

― mark s, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"EGOISTE!"

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I had an argument with a friend over this one-- he thought it was acceptable, I just thought it was the DUMBEST thing I'd ever seen.

I work in a library in the USA and I was in charge of getting tourism info from each state. New Jersey's slogan was "What a difference a state makes". I was stupefied...I mean, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?? Is anything positive being said or implied? Is, in fact, anything being communicated??

― Chris Cook, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ancient one (early 1980s?) that my sister and I used to chuckle over every time it popped up on British tv:

"Buxted Chickens....they're so economic"

― David, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Somewhere between sliced bread and instant oatmeal, there's the third door."

― Otis Wheeler, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

New Jersey's slogan was "What a difference a state makes". I was stupefied...I mean, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?? Is anything positive being said or implied? Is, in fact, anything being communicated??

Well it's punning on "what a difference a day makes" and implying that there's a qualitative difference in what's available in NJ compared to other states.

― David, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Bud."

"Weis?"

"ERRRRR!"

I would include the painfully awful "Whassup?" campaign, but the first "How are you doing?" spot was wicked funny.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Devon knows why they make it so creamy

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Try twice the cheese this week ... and have fun!"

(intoned in a calm, patrician voice on b&w British advert placed by the Cheese Council - at a guess - c.1959; this doesn't really count in that the slogan sounds other-worldly / quaint today but *at the time* the polite mild enjoyment of it all fitted exactly with Britain escaping from austerity.)

The most nauseating to me for many years was "Gilette: The Best A Man Can Get", especially the 80s rock soundtrack to said ad.

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

GET TOUGH WITH SUGAR PUFF.

Incidentally focus groups dont come up with slogans - usually they are forced to give their reactions to 4 or 5 of equally staggering badness, and finally a consensus of mild-non-loathing develops.

― Tom, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ford's new corporate slogan, "We have ignition." Whoo! So does every other car you dolts.

― AP, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How's your truth cleaning going? Brush up with a Bible Course...

― Geoff, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Bounty the stronger soaker upper... Boun-Tee"

― Matt D'Cruz, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ian Rush says if I don't drink my milk I'll only ever be good enough to play for Acrington Stanley.

Who're they?

Exacly

― Ed Lynch-Bell, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i liked that one ed, well remembered!

― gareth, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Devon knows why they make it so creamy On a point of order:

(a) It's 'how', not 'why'. Asking why they make it so creamy would be tantamount to dissing their own custard for being too creamy, which would be dumb.

It's not quite a advert, but when you drive across the home counties, you may come across a sign that reads 'Bedfordshire: A Progressive County', which is funny just because it's such a bare-faced lie. There's a badly typed list of these city/state/county straplines here< /a>. I particularly like "Bradford, a surprising place".

Otis, did you make that sliced bread-oatmeal one up?

― Nick, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

but nick, you really would be surprised by bradford. well, ok, no, you probably wouldn't

― gareth, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The ian rush thing, with cynical hindsight, seems to be a very good way of getting him to endorse the product without actually paying him any money. I don't rember his grinning face anyway near the campaign. Perhaps they had the right to use his name cos the League cup was called the Milk cup. More innocent days I suppose, if they used Michael Owen's name no doubt his agent would sue the pants of anyone who tried. Acrington Stanley are of course no more, i think, relegated from the conference and bankrupt.

― Ed Lynch-Bell, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All bank slogans where they try to come over all touchy feely whilst in fact being totally crap. They are bad. Can't remember the current NatWest one but I know it makes me angry.

The best is for Persil Capsules. Take us to your laundry.

― Emma, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i was unaware that accrington stanley had actually vanished. i thought they were soldiering on in some regional league. mind you, colne dynamoes shut up shop immediately after winning a region al league, and about to be promoted to the conference. why? because of DEATH THREATS. WTF?!?!?

― gareth, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh bodyform = greatest rock ballad of the age

― mark s, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I only know cos Ambrose told me and he knows about those sorts of things. He's even got a book with every league football ground in the country in it so i defer to his judgement.

― Ed Lynch-Bell, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The best is for Persil Capsules. Take us to your laundry.

You're so right, Emma! Hints of industrial espionage when Unilever and Procter & Gamble virtually simultaneously launch single-dose washing liquid capsules. But here's where P&G get their arses whupped - the Ariel ones are just boring capsule-shaped things but the Persil ones look like flying saucers. Wuh-ho!! And then they come up with that genius 'Take us to your laundry' line! Which one are you gonna buy? It's a no-brainer!

― Nick, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nick, I am ALWAYS right.

I think Persil capsules are the only thing I have every (consciously) bought cos of an advert. And I quite like adverts. However I must say that in real life they are not as good as on the telly. Although they do get my clothes nice and clean.

― Emma, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What do you mean they are not as good as on the advert. What was that high pitched chatter and squealing I heard from under the sink this morning.

I fear we may be alienating the American audience with our ostentatious and vicarious tales of washing clothes in our own homes.

Stupidest and fabourite strapline at the monet - as mentioned in the Ketchup thread: Heinz Tomato Ketchup: Faster than rocks.

― Pete, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What will be first product to-oh-so-daringly advertise itself as BETTER THAN CRACK?

If Sour-Cream-&-Onion Pringles did so, it would be TRUE — but of course they don't need to advertise (any more than crack does)

― mark s, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

PRINGLES PIZZA.

"Better than crack" is a metafilter.com tagline, isn't it? (Metafilter.com for the uninitiated is like ILE for squares, though with billions of tasty features, grr.)

― Tom, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ILE = worse than crack...

― mark s, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am a crackwhore for ILE. I haven't left the house for days. Paul is getting worried...

― masonic boom, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Some northern bakery ran a series of "naughty" ads last year, w/pix of various bread products w/suggestive captions. The only one I remember was "FANCY A THREESOME?" (pic of three sausages in a whitebread bap) Amazing. I didn't realise BREAD was so damn sexy....

Those french connection ads are a bit tiresome too...oooh look, it almost sez "fuck"!!!! How much more edge can one possibly get? (yawn)

― Norman Fay, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I liked when some net guy used fcuk in his website name, and French Connection sued, and in court their lawyer said this was damaging to his clients' business name and image, and the judge said TAKE YOUR WACK ARSE OUTTA MY COURT and DIE LIKE CUNTZ. You are running adverts with the word "fuck" nearly in them, therefore NOTHING can damage your name and image.

― mark s, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Did the judge really say that? I want to do jury service now to see the foulmouthed upholders of justice in action.

― Emma, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I didn't make up the sliced bread-oatmeal thing, Nick. It was an ad for a car with three doors.

― Otis Wheeler, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Burger King's new slogan = "In the Land of Burgers, the Whopper is King."

Just think on that one for a second ("in the land of the blind," etc.) Though it really does sum Burger King up perfectly.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah, tourist board slogans. The entire Hastings area has been declared "1066 Country". It says a lot about a place when the most interesting thing they can come up with happened nearly a thousand years ago. And we lost. And more to the point, there's absolutely no 1066-related touristy landmarks anywhere. The original draft was "Hastings: Something happened here once a very very long time ago and there's nothing of it to see but come anyway".

― Graham, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well done to Nick for unearthing that site: some of the phrases therein are *pure* Martin Parr.

The Christchurch one has always amused me, because it's so true. There are few more pleasant places to my knowledge (it's totally unspectacular and has nothing much going for it but is so definitively *pleasant*).

I remember that Sheffield promo being used in a BBC series in 1995, before The Full Monty. Brilliant period stuff. And I wonder whether anyone who knows not of the League of Gentlemen spotted the deliberate mistake?

But Nick: why is Bedfordshire any less progressive than anywhere else?

― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Graham: that Hastings catchline was adopted when they electrified the railway from Charing Cross in 1986 under the brand "1066 Electrics" (I kid you not). I remember being very disappointed as a child that the battle actually took place at a village some way inland called Battle - I felt cheated that I would go to Hastings and not actually get to see the only thing of particular interest there. Well, it was the 80s / early 90s, the boom years for heritage culture blah blah blah ...

Gareth: Accrington Stanley went bankrupt and had to withdraw from the Football League in 1962. However they reformed and, the last I heard, were still playing somewhere non-league. Ambrose could be right, or confused: who knows?

― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Having spent 20 years of my life living on the Beds / Bucks border (on the Bucks side) I can safely say that Leighton Buzzard is evidence enough for Bedfordshire's lack of progressiveness.

― Emma, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, I was broadly going on what my Leighton Buzzard friends have told me about the place. Also, y'know, you can just guess these things. I think I would have heard about it if it was somehow an hotbed of progressive thought.

― Nick, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Battle Of Battle just doesn't have the same ring, does it.

― Pete, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Isn't Battle of Battle of Battle of Battle a Blur song?

― masonic boom, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The clearest sign that Bedfordshire is not progressive is the slogan "Bedfordshire: A Progressive County", surely?

Accrington Stanley are in the Unibond League Premier Division, only one promotion from the conference. Northern non-league football is nowhere near as classic as London non-league football, by the way.

― Tim, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

tim, you know about these things. can you confirm/deny the colne dynamoes death threat thing?

― gareth, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can do neither, I'm afraid. I had it in my head that the league structure of the time (before the pyramid was in place it was an issue of applying for election to a league above your own, which could be denied without appeal) closed its doors to the Dynamoes, what with them being upstarts and all. Progress was slowed sufficiently to lead their rich backer to give up in frustration. I may have made this up, though.

― Tim, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Here you go, Gareth:

The Guardian (01 Aug 1990)
'Threats' close Dynamoes
By CYNTHIA BATEMAN
COLNE DYNAMOES , the non-League club which rose from its inception 25 years ago to the verge of the Fourth Division, has gone into voluntary liquidation.

The owner Graham White, a 46-year-old local businessman who has spent a small fortune trying to take the club into the Football League, yesterday blamed threats of violence believed to include death warnings against himself, his wife and three sons.

He has also suffered other setbacks: a leaner time in his business and the ineligibility of the club to join the GM Vauxhall Conference after winning promotion there.

The Holt House ground, where Colne attracted average gates of 1,000 last season, was too small and a study cast doubt on plans to build a 20,000-capacity stadium. White was unable to secure ground-sharing arrangements with Blackburn or Burnley and according to a Conference spokesman was 'unable to give the financial assurances the Conference required'. In May he withdrew Colne's application.

White founded Colne Dynamoes when he was 20. They won promotion through seven leagues and took the FA Vase in 1988.

His decision to close the club that costs an estimated Pounds 500,000 a year to run leaves a playing staff of 22 17 of them full-time professionals on wages reputed to be as high as Pounds 450 a week looking for clubs. Colne's place in the HFS Loans League will not be filled this season.

'We are heartbroken,' said a club spokesman, Mike King. 'We have been doing so well. But Graham has received abuse and threats for some time.'

White, whose family helped run the club on match days, was in tears as he announced the closure. The threats, he said, had made 'the quality of our lives unbearable'.

What a tertrible story

― Nick, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A jingle for a nearby petting zoo:

You'll find adventure
At Catskill Game Farm -
Adventure is in our nature

And what about "Mentos: The Freshmaker"? Bad & brilliant all at once.

― David Raposa, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Exactly how can you "guess" these things, Nick? And why "somehow"?

Fucking hell, the south-east outside London is easily my least favourite part of Britain, but at least I don't go about making assumptions on *that* little evidence. Exhibit A for the decentralisation of the British press.

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anyone else remember Crazy Eddie (the prices are insane!)

If there's anyone here who grew up around Philadelphia, you may also remember the old Krass Brothers clothing store TV ads (with some some geeky, Peewee Herman-lookalike who always got the shit beat outta him by some skanky-looking models).

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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In conjunction w/ extreme sports explosion, any product that aligned its marketing to said phenomenon. Nadir came early, 94-ish, KFC started selling "Extreme Chicken". TV ads featured archetypal dreadlock/boardshorts dude on skateboard, holding drumstick toward camera, & proclaiming of the chicken, "It's extreme!"

― AP, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Self-correction from way upthread: "Try twice the cheese this week - and have fun!" is from 1968. The rather similar "Never forget the CHEESE!" is from 1959, though.

― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Going back to the PLaystation 2 ad, you have to worry when they don't even show the machine, let alone any of the games. But then Sony Playstation and variants = crap and evil anyway.

― DG, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four weeks pass...

Last night I heard the worst slogan I have ever heard. It said MTV2 - for people who think Pop SUCKS and want their music loud, long and dangerous. I immediately switched over to MTV Hits, where the unspoken motto is MTV Hits - for people who thing loud, long and dangerous music can get a bit much after a while.

― Nick, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"you've got Wessonality"

― Nude Spock, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jupiler. Mannen weten waarom.

Jupiler (beer). Men know why.

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's not actually stupid, Nathalie. Men *do* know why. It's one of those things I just can't explain to you. Sorry.

― Nick, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*runs off to the corner and starts crying*

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wheat Crunchies used to use the slogan "Crunchy. Wheaty. Eaty"

This is dumb for so many reasons (What does 'eaty' mean? Would you buy something advertised as being 'wheaty'? The damn things are called 'Wheat Crunchies' you don't have to tell me their crunchy and wheaty)

Walkers ran a competition a while back for new slogans. The winner got his name and slogan printed on millions of packets of crisps. This meant there were millions of packets of crisps bearing the legend:

"They're wicked and tasty" - Scott Walker

― jamesmichaelward, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

James, are you on crack? Crunchy, Wheaty, Eaty is one of the best slogans ever. If Wheat Crunchies hadn't invented it, it would surely have evolved on ILE sooner or later.

― Nick, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This isn't quite an ad slogan, but the current Radio Times has a picture of Laurence Llewlyn Bowen with a power drill, and the slogan "The Holes in The Wall Gang".

Did no one else think this was a cottaging reference?

― Graham, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Look, whether or not I'm on crack is irrelevant. "Crunchy. Wheaty. Eaty." is a rubbish slogan.

"Why do you like Wheat Crunchies"

"Because they're so eaty"

"Oh, I like them because they're crunchy and wheaty"

― jamesmichaelward, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You see - you can't stop saying it. Eaty Eaty Eaty. It's part of your vocabulary now becuase your subconscious knows that it's such a fucking great word.

― Nick, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My subconscious only speaks legalese.

What's your alibi?

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My subconscious only speaks motherese.

― Nick, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The evil CR told me all about MTV2 - "Music to subvert the mainstream" or some shit like that, and then they play Wheatus.

― DG, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Damn. Now I can't see the word "Wheatus" without thinking "Crunchus, Wheatus, Eatus"

― jamesmichaelward, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's a better slogan than the original.

― DG, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

After being exposed to MTV2 for a few hours I realised that I like Teenage Dirtbag. Am I going mad?

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No Richard, you are going SANE. "Teenage Dirtbag" is the bee's nuts.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Richard, UNREALIZE IT! Men in shiny training suits wearing nothing underneath: FREAKY and of course possible smelly as well. But my telly doesn't have smellorama. Or rather, stankorama. New thread: new additions to television sets: odorama or feelorama?

― nathalie, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"tastorama: for the eatiness"

― mark s, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Every time I log onto Hotmail, I am confronted by this horror from Forbes.com:

Your daily cup of info - It's Capitalism served fresh daily.

― Nick, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just remembered another one - a billboard showing various red toyota sportscars - "If a red sportscar is sexy - this must be the karma sutra". Yuk.

xoxo

― Norman Fay, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

To be sung in a very carefree manner: "Gravox! It sounds a bit like gravy ox!"

― rainy, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

From a PBS "support our school libraries" advert:

"Read. It will grow your mind."

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 17 September 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Those annoying HSBC ads that say "We're Big". Surely this is grabbing the wrong end of the stick about what people want these days i.e. big, faceless corporations. They even admit "Big can be scary". Of course it can be! Especially if your debt collectors are over 18 stone.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"Whatever the diagnosis...Librium" c 1960s

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Thursday, 18 September 2003 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Good lord. Lithium for your hangover! &c.

I saw a JJJ (national "yoof" radio station) ad on a tram the other day that said something like "its ok, we hate you too"

I couldnt decide wether it was stupid or the BEST THING EVER.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 September 2003 04:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh and of course the Apple "think different" slogan shits me, because it is so gramatically clunky. It makes me wince.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 September 2003 04:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Librium, not Lithium.
(a benzodiazepine, "anti-anxiety")

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Thursday, 18 September 2003 04:54 (twenty-two years ago)

ahhh rite. Thought it was a brandname for lithium - my mistake :)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 September 2003 05:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Trayce - yeh that Apple one has been bugging me too.
I suppose it's semi-correct because you can say things like "think big" or "think: telephones" or whatever, but if Apple want to appeal to a demographic with a higher IQ than an elastic band you'd think they'd be able to come up with something less awkward. What's wrong with "think differently"? For one, if no-one buys Apple, at least it'll be correcting people's grammar because they'll remember the ad.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 18 September 2003 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Every time I log onto Hotmail, I am confronted by this horror from Forbes.com:
Your daily cup of info - It's Capitalism served fresh daily.

Capitalism served fresh daily would be more like a punch in the face every morning...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 18 September 2003 08:56 (twenty-two years ago)

My favourite ad slogan at the moment - just because it's so bad - is "Vagisil: Prevents Feminine Itching".

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 18 September 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a radio advert many moons ago that used to have me in stitches - imagine Andy Cameron (crappy Scottish comedian, used to be on Highroad, not sure if he still is) rapping ..."Hawkhead carpets gie ye mair when they nail your carpets to the flair" Genius.

― smee (smee), Thursday, 18 September 2003 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I think this thread might actually contain my first ever ILE post... blimX0r!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 18 September 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Vodafone - "Now is good"

YOU SOUND LIKE SOME SMUG NAGGY CUNT, VODAFONE. I'LL FUCKING MAKE THAT CALL WHEN *I* WANT TO. AND I'M WITH ORANGE ANYWAY.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 18 September 2003 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

Wheat Crunchies no longer say 'Crunchy Wheaty Eaty' on the packet. I have a real fear this means eaty will never make it to the dictionary.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.macalester.edu/~psych/whathap/UBNRP/Dopamine/images/cocaine_ad1.gif

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 4 December 2003 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

There used to be a tv ad for "Ruisantero", a Finnish rye bread with a hole an it. The slogan of the ad was: "Ruisantero. It has a hole in it." Apparently it was supposed to be ironic, but still...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 4 December 2003 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"for sale by all Druggists"

Druggists, hoho.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm lovin' it.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

spinktor is right.

― brian badword (badwords), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I just saw a thoroughly wretched one:
An ad for "Jet Dry" has a dishwasher soap dispenser wearing a Pilgrim hat. The caption reads "Gobble Gobble Sparkle."

brrrr.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a window repair shop here called Glass Doctor, and the jingle says, "Call the glass doctor, he'll fix your panes."

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Local restaraunt: Garden of Eatin'

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Garden of Eatin' is also a brand of organic snacks.

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I first heard that phrase in an episode of married with children. I wonder if the restaraunt or the show came first.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Orange (the phone co.) have a new ad slogan here that goes:

"Orange. Fair."

Its the way he says it so emphatically that pisses me off. Well that and the fact they have these FREAKY ALBINO BLONDE TWINS in the commercial cutting a choco bar in half.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 4 December 2003 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

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