# Hard-to-believe slogans **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 5, 2001, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-to-believe-slogans/75049 "2001-08-05T23:38:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Oicu812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f475e1/32.png) [@Oicu812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oicu812)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-to-believe-slogans/75049/21 "2001-08-06T18:11:51Z")
Actually was an ad for Winston cigs… Sask pork co. in New Zealand: **Pork. The one you love.** Chinese restaurant in Ocala, FL: **The Fu king Restaurant** (Sign says it all.) ## O Vidi Vici Veni! ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-to-believe-slogans/75049/22 "2001-08-06T18:47:14Z")
America’s Air Force - No One Comes Close ---
**Author:** ![Syzygy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Syzygy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syzygy)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-to-believe-slogans/75049/23 "2001-08-06T18:56:54Z")
I dunno why, but I always thought Nuprin’s slogan was creepy. “Little. Yellow. Different.” Something’s not right about it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Raven\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@The\_Raven\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Raven_1)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-to-believe-slogans/75049/24 "2001-08-06T19:08:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TV time \* > \*\* > I’ve always liked, “With a name like Smuckers, it’s got to be good.” > > I’ve never really understood it, but I’ve always liked it. \*\* Howyadoin, Did you ever see the SNL skit where they took the Smucker’s slogan to it’s logical extreme? “Mangled Baby Ducks! With a name like Mangled Baby Ducks, it must be the best jam you ever tasted!” “Death Camp! That’s right, Death Camp! Just look for the barbed wire on the label!” “Ten thousand nuns and orphans!” “Ten thousand nuns and orphans… what’s so bad about that?” {John Belushi} “They were all eaten by _RATS!_” {/John Belushi} -Rav ---
**Author:** ![evilskippy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@evilskippy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilskippy)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-to-believe-slogans/75049/25 "2001-08-06T20:57:32Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by TV time_ > \*\*I’ve always liked, “With a name like Smuckers, it’s got to be good.” > > I’ve never really understood it, but I’ve always liked it.\*\* Simple. The name Smuckers is so bad that they have to make a really good product to make up for it. That is the message they are trying to get across. Hence the humor of the SNL skit. ---
**Author:** ![Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goose)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-to-believe-slogans/75049/26 "2001-08-06T23:08:58Z")
The Firestone Tire ads. “It’s about trust…” ---
**Author:** ![edwino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-to-believe-slogans/75049/27 "2001-08-06T23:22:38Z")
[Your shit is my bread and butter](http://www.beaterz.com/one_liners/0300/030015_royal_flush.htm) [http://www.beaterz.com](http://www.beaterz.com) ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-to-believe-slogans/75049/28 "2001-08-06T23:23:53Z")
No, I got that part evilskippy. I just never got the logic involved with saying “our name is yucky so our jams and jellys must be good.” Or why they would think the public would draw that inference. Well, it was Menkin who said, “No man has ever gone broke underestimating the intelligence of the American Public.” So yes, I can see why they would think people would buy the thought process. With that motto, I always expected them to come out with after dinner mints called “Snot.” Yeah, Raven I saw that one.–Belushi and Ackroyd on that bit–delightfully disgusting. That was in their first season wasn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-to-believe-slogans/75049/29 "2001-08-06T23:34:15Z")
Is that some vague mafia threat, or do they really have a familial love of their customers? I’m not always fond of my own family, I _certainly_ don’t want to be honorary siblings with the ugly bastard that waited on me, or the rude, incompetent hostess that looks like she turns tricks in the kitchen. I’m disowning your _familiy_ and going to the Spaghetti Warehouse. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-to-believe-slogans/75049/30 "2001-08-06T23:44:04Z")
There is a radiator repair shop in Terre Haute, Indiana (a city whose slogan should be "Terre Haute means “stinky town with a horse rendering plant in the center of it”) that has a great slogan: "Best place to take a leak"0 ---
**Author:** ![paperbackwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-to-believe-slogans/75049/31 "2001-08-07T02:31:30Z")
It’s not a slogan, per se, but every time I’m taking the Green line down Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, I have to laugh at the huge billboard that says: “Ellis The Rim Man!” (if it’s not funny, ask **Esprix** ) ---
**Author:** ![Jeannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-to-believe-slogans/75049/32 "2001-08-07T02:37:44Z")
“Brown’s Chicken-It Tastes Better” To quote a co-worker: “Better than _what_???” ---
**Author:** ![PlanMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@PlanMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlanMan)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-to-believe-slogans/75049/33 "2001-08-07T02:37:47Z")
In Jacksonville, there’s a painting contractor: “Watergate Painters - We Can Cover Up Anything” Also, “The Glass Doctor - We Fix Your Panes” oh, and there’s a Fu King Chinese in Lake City, too. ---
**Author:** ![RoboDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bbe5ce/32.png) [@RoboDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RoboDude)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-to-believe-slogans/75049/34 "2001-08-07T02:47:04Z")
How about Snapple: “Made from the best stuff on earth!” And did anyone remember the Boar’s Head “Turkey, not technology” campaign? Implying that everyone else’s turkey breasts are noting more than giant Turkey McNuggets. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![Rossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@Rossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rossarian)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-to-believe-slogans/75049/35 "2001-08-07T02:47:13Z")
It’s not a slogan, but in line with the other Korean restaurants, there is one near my old home called “Il Mee Korean Restaurant.” I never felt the urge to eat there. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-to-believe-slogans/75049/36 "2001-08-07T02:55:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bad News Baboon \* > \*\*how about logos? > > sherwin williams: > > a paint can dumping its contents over the earth. > > nice, huh? \*\* I used to work for them. I thought it always looked like the perfect Communist propaganda logo. Red Paint covering the earth. . . Tripler Damn Commie pinko bastards!! ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-to-believe-slogans/75049/37 "2001-08-07T05:27:19Z")
“LSMFT! LSMFT! Lucky Strikes means fine tobacco. So firm, so round, so fully packed.” (advertising on the **Lucky Strikes Program** ) The above obtained from [http://www.old-time.com/bytes/](http://www.old-time.com/bytes/) I had just heard this, so I did know what it was. ---
**Author:** ![zyzzyva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@zyzzyva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zyzzyva)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-to-believe-slogans/75049/38 "2001-08-07T05:50:13Z")
There’s a great sign on a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco that says, “Where good friends and girls meet.” There’s also a Vietnamese restaurant here called “Hung Phat”. (Of course, it _is_ SF, so the latter might indeed be intentional.) ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-to-believe-slogans/75049/39 "2001-08-07T05:58:32Z")
And the packs still say L.S./M.F.T. on the bottom. I don’t see what’s so bad about it, though, they are fine tobacco. Well, Lucky Strike fans would think so, I guess. I bought a pack once (wanted to try unfiltered cigarettes, even though I rarely smoke) and they weren’t bad. Of course, I really don’t have much basis for comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Pessor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pessor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pessor)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-to-believe-slogans/75049/40 "2001-08-07T08:10:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Paul The Younger \* > \*\*The one that’s ALWAYS bugged me… > > “Nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee!” > > Besides the attrocious grammar, the first few times I heard it I thought they said “Nobody _does it_ like Sara Lee!” – which despite the sexual innuendo (maybe that’s just me) would make a helluva better slogan. \*\* You’re kidding. I thought it was\* … does it like Sara Lee.\* Never saw it in letters. That’s garbage! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-to-believe-slogans/75049.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-to-believe-slogans/75049.md?page=3)