# Ads, Tag lines, slogans, etc... that you like or merely recall

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-tag-lines-slogans-etc-that-you-like-or-merely-recall/767043>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 27, 2016, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-tag-lines-slogans-etc-that-you-like-or-merely-recall/767043 "2016-09-27T16:45:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-tag-lines-slogans-etc-that-you-like-or-merely-recall/767043/21 "2016-09-27T19:38:05Z")

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_“See the U-S-A/in your Chev-ro-let…”_

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**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-tag-lines-slogans-etc-that-you-like-or-merely-recall/767043/22 "2016-09-27T19:46:21Z")

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> [@terentii](#):
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> _“Plop, plop! Fizz, fizz! Oh, what a relief it is!”_

“I can’t believe I ate the whole thing!”

And is there something else to the Polaner commercial besides the old lady being mortified by the guy’s gaucheness? Without even watching it I can hear that dude’s voice in my mind’s ear.

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-tag-lines-slogans-etc-that-you-like-or-merely-recall/767043/23 "2016-09-27T19:55:47Z")

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The slogan we were meant to remember was

Don’t you dare call it jelly.

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-tag-lines-slogans-etc-that-you-like-or-merely-recall/767043/24 "2016-09-27T20:03:11Z")

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> [@WOOKINPANUB](#):
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> “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing!”

“You ate it, Ralph!” 😃

As for the jelly … I just have a dirty mind! :o

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-tag-lines-slogans-etc-that-you-like-or-merely-recall/767043/25 "2016-09-27T20:05:24Z")

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> [@WOOKINPANUB](#):
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> “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing!”

Come to think of it… **EW!** :eek:

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-tag-lines-slogans-etc-that-you-like-or-merely-recall/767043/26 "2016-09-27T20:10:05Z")

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On a local electric company’s trucks: “Let us check your shorts.”

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**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-tag-lines-slogans-etc-that-you-like-or-merely-recall/767043/27 "2016-09-27T20:48:15Z")

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[QUOTE=Angelo Mosca]  
If you don’t think this is a clean, close shave, come and tell me. TO MY FACE!  
[/QUOTE]

Probably only Canadians have seen this.

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**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-tag-lines-slogans-etc-that-you-like-or-merely-recall/767043/28 "2016-09-27T21:02:23Z")

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> [@Ethilrist](#):
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> On a local electric company’s trucks: “Let us check your shorts.”

There used to be a well known local caterer whose slogan, for a time, was “You can whip our potatoes but you can’t beat our meat.”

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-tag-lines-slogans-etc-that-you-like-or-merely-recall/767043/29 "2016-09-27T21:41:02Z")

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> [@Casey1505](#):
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> There used to be a well known local caterer whose slogan, for a time, was “You can whip our potatoes but you can’t beat our meat.”

See? Sex sells! 🆒

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-tag-lines-slogans-etc-that-you-like-or-merely-recall/767043/30 "2016-09-27T22:05:00Z")

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Let Noxzema cream your face, so the razor don’t! (Whoo!)\<----Joe Namath

BP, there’s a new gasoline called BP. (Insert 2nd grade dirty joke here)

Mr. Owl, how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie-Roll center of a Tootsie-Pop? Let’s find out; 1…2…3…::crunch::! Three!

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-tag-lines-slogans-etc-that-you-like-or-merely-recall/767043/31 "2016-09-27T22:26:23Z")

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_“There’s nothin’ like the face of a kid when he’s eatin’ a Hershey bar!”_

_“Keep yer fingers off my Butterfinger!”_

_“Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t!”_

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-tag-lines-slogans-etc-that-you-like-or-merely-recall/767043/32 "2016-09-27T23:34:26Z")

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“Nothing is better for thee, than me.”

(Do you dare show your age by knowing this one?)

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-tag-lines-slogans-etc-that-you-like-or-merely-recall/767043/33 "2016-09-27T23:36:49Z")

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My wife; I think I’ll keep her.

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-tag-lines-slogans-etc-that-you-like-or-merely-recall/767043/34 "2016-09-27T23:42:14Z")

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“Oh, I’d love to be an Oscar Mayer wiener.”

“My bologna has a first name, it’s O-S-C-A-R.”

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**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-tag-lines-slogans-etc-that-you-like-or-merely-recall/767043/35 "2016-09-27T23:48:41Z")

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“Watch out for the other guy” - Safe driving PSA from long, long ago. Still as good as ever.

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**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-tag-lines-slogans-etc-that-you-like-or-merely-recall/767043/36 "2016-09-27T23:53:50Z")

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“With a name like Smuckers…it has to be good.”

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**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-tag-lines-slogans-etc-that-you-like-or-merely-recall/767043/37 "2016-09-28T00:00:34Z")

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_It’s Shake-n-Bake - and I helped!!_

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-tag-lines-slogans-etc-that-you-like-or-merely-recall/767043/38 "2016-09-28T00:16:44Z")

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> [@FairyChatMom](#):
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> _It’s Shake-n-Bake - and I helped!!_

Not enough syllables in “helped.” 😃

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-tag-lines-slogans-etc-that-you-like-or-merely-recall/767043/39 "2016-09-28T00:24:57Z")

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> [@FairyChatMom](#):
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> _It’s Shake-n-Bake - and I helped!!_

> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> Not enough syllables in “helped.” 😃

_It’s Shake-n-Bake - and Ah hay-ulped._ 😃

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-tag-lines-slogans-etc-that-you-like-or-merely-recall/767043/40 "2016-09-28T00:26:00Z")

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> [@cochrane](#):
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> _It’s Shake-n-Bake - and Ah hay-ulped._ 😃

Perfect.

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