# Did we learn nothing from "You bet your Aspercreme!"?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-learn-nothing-from-you-bet-your-aspercreme/719547
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 8, 2015, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-learn-nothing-from-you-bet-your-aspercreme/719547 "2015-05-08T12:28:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2015, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-learn-nothing-from-you-bet-your-aspercreme/719547/1 "2015-05-08T12:28:34Z")
Rolaids: Kick Acid!
They mitigate it at the end with “Kick Acid and gas too”, but still.
🙂
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### Author:  [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-learn-nothing-from-you-bet-your-aspercreme/719547/2 "2015-05-08T13:53:44Z")
Where is the problem?
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2015, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-learn-nothing-from-you-bet-your-aspercreme/719547/3 "2015-05-08T14:03:51Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#):
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> Where is the problem?
Try saying it aloud. Of course, it will depend on the audience, but some segment of the public will be offended by saying “kick-ass.”
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2015, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-learn-nothing-from-you-bet-your-aspercreme/719547/4 "2015-05-08T14:09:37Z")
I’m so offended, I [shipped my pants](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I03UmJbK0lA).
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### Author:  [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2015, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-learn-nothing-from-you-bet-your-aspercreme/719547/5 "2015-05-08T14:10:19Z")
> [@Colibri](#):
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> Try saying it aloud. Of course, it will depend on the audience, but some segment of the public will be offended by saying “kick-ass.”
That segment is vanishingly small compared to the people who will find it amusing.
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### Author:  [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2015, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-learn-nothing-from-you-bet-your-aspercreme/719547/6 "2015-05-08T14:42:22Z")
Is your internet speed [half fast?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKVYsYS7SHY)
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-learn-nothing-from-you-bet-your-aspercreme/719547/7 "2015-05-08T15:11:17Z")
Interesting. I’m not bothered by kick assid or half fast, but “I shipped my pants” seems juvenile. I’m not sure why.
JAQ, 53 going on 80
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### Author:  [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-learn-nothing-from-you-bet-your-aspercreme/719547/8 "2015-05-08T15:21:30Z")
“Shipped my pants” has a scatological component that the “ass” jokes just don’t have.
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2015, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-learn-nothing-from-you-bet-your-aspercreme/719547/9 "2015-05-08T15:30:24Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#):
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> Is your internet speed [half fast?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKVYsYS7SHY)
This is the one I was going to mention. When commercials come on that’s the time I do something else so I hear more than see most ads. This one never fails to “get me” even though I’ve heard it dozens of times.
I wish “I shipped my pants” ran here. That truly gives me some (juvenile) joy 😃
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-learn-nothing-from-you-bet-your-aspercreme/719547/10 "2015-05-08T17:03:02Z")
> [@hajario](#):
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> That segment is vanishingly small compared to the people who will find it amusing.
You’d think so, but “you bet your Aspercreme” was yanked pretty darn quick.
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### Author:  [@X.L.Lent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X.L.Lent)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2015, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-learn-nothing-from-you-bet-your-aspercreme/719547/11 "2015-05-09T10:13:23Z")
[Go take a ship.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBbuYZGl22o)
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### Author:  [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2015, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-learn-nothing-from-you-bet-your-aspercreme/719547/12 "2015-05-09T12:28:24Z")
[Pull one off, and tell me what you think.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJru0A4qZc8)
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2015, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-learn-nothing-from-you-bet-your-aspercreme/719547/13 "2015-05-09T13:30:37Z")
There’s a promo for a new show about NASA wives where one of them, apparently in reference to a husband’s infidelity, says, “That’s why they call them ass-tronauts”.
Gotta say, that does not seem to promise sparkling writing.
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### Author:  [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2015, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-learn-nothing-from-you-bet-your-aspercreme/719547/14 "2015-05-09T13:36:01Z")
The aspercreme ad was amusing. It was “You bet your sweet aspercreme” too, which was even better.
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### Author:  [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2015, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-learn-nothing-from-you-bet-your-aspercreme/719547/15 "2015-05-09T14:52:04Z")
Excuse you, **gigi** , but that Aspercreme commercial was the shit! Totally unexpected, especially for something I had generally thought of as an old, arthritis-y thing. I was so pissed when they changed it!
And it was, “you bet \*your sweet \*Aspercreme”. Then they [del]ruined[/del] changed it to, “you bet if it’s Aspercreme”. Jerks.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2015, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-learn-nothing-from-you-bet-your-aspercreme/719547/16 "2015-05-10T03:33:58Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#):
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> There’s a promo for a new show about NASA wives where one of them, apparently in reference to a husband’s infidelity, says, “That’s why they call them ass-tronauts”.
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> Gotta say, that does not seem to promise sparkling writing.
They’re trying hard to fill the coming void left by Mad Men. Like throwing a hot dog down a hallway.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2015, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-learn-nothing-from-you-bet-your-aspercreme/719547/17 "2015-05-10T03:39:15Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#):
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> Excuse you, **gigi** , but that Aspercreme commercial was the shit!
I was amused by them yanking it and then more amused that an ad agency would take a chance again. I guess Rolaids isn’t as age-specific as Aspercreme.
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-learn-nothing-from-you-bet-your-aspercreme/719547/18 "2015-05-12T20:48:32Z")
There’s a local window glass company whose trucks have a large photo of a donkey and the slogan, “Does this truck make our glass look big?”
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2015, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-learn-nothing-from-you-bet-your-aspercreme/719547/19 "2015-05-12T22:09:01Z")
British bus service: [Ride me all day for £3](http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/british-bus-service-apologizes-ride-me-ad-campaign-164685)
Ad comes complete with nude model. (Link SFW)
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### Author:  [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-learn-nothing-from-you-bet-your-aspercreme/719547/20 "2015-05-12T22:27:07Z")
[A company local to Los Angeles runs trucks that say “You Can’t Beat Our Meat”](http://a2.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/141/8063358e57bd44a3a6a5556515c2f1ab/l.jpg)
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