# Strange company slogans that just rubs you the wrong way. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 10, 2008, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-company-slogans-that-just-rubs-you-the-wrong-way/452473 "2008-06-10T18:03:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-company-slogans-that-just-rubs-you-the-wrong-way/452473/121 "2008-06-13T14:34:59Z")
[QUOTE=Licentious Ectomorph] I remember a McDonald’s slogan from 20 or so years ago – “People: our most important ingredient.” [/QUOTE] Well, _that_ explains a lot. ---
**Author:** ![diggleblop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@diggleblop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggleblop)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-company-slogans-that-just-rubs-you-the-wrong-way/452473/122 "2008-06-13T17:07:36Z")
[QUOTE=Green Bean] “What can brown do for you” was my immediate thought too. That’s a horrible slogan. What on earth were they thinking? [/QUOTE] It’s actually genius. Look at how many people remembered it in this thread. That’s the point of advertising, to make you remember who they are. A couple that have aggravated me for a bit: **“You’re in good hands with Allstate”** - sounds to…fatherly. **“Dude, you’re gettin a Dell”** - not in use, but again, a genius marketing slogan. But really annoying. \*\*“The Best Radio on Radio” \*\*- That is from Sirius. Now, Sirius is satellite, right. I would think that they could’ve come up with something better than “the best radio on radio”, ya know? Maybe “the best radio on satellite” hell, as bad as that is, it’s even better than the one they have now. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-company-slogans-that-just-rubs-you-the-wrong-way/452473/123 "2008-06-13T18:05:12Z")
Not a slogan, exactly, but in those horrifying “This is our country” Chevy TV ads there was a shot of two kids playing with toy cars, with the caption “This is our test track” - producing the predictable response of, “no wonder your cars are so shitty!” Who the hell thought _that_ was a good idea? [QUOTE=Larry Mudd] Not a slogan, but more irritating than there are words for: Sun Chips HARVEST CHEDDAR. Harvest fucking _cheddar_. Fresh from the g.d. _cheese harvest_. No fucking way can I be compelled to eat cheese that is _harvested_. “Oooh, look what I found growing on the roots of the old oak tree, where Sally spilled the milk in the spring!” [/QUOTE] Bet you won’t like [this](http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=521915), then. [QUOTE=diggleblop] “Dude, you’re gettin a Dell” - not in use, but again, a genius marketing slogan. But really annoying. [/QUOTE] Totally worth the annoyance when the kid got busted for possession and pretty much everyone on the board was able to start threads with titles like, “Dude, you’re getting a cell”… > [@](#): > > It’s actually genius. Look at how many people remembered it in this thread. That’s the point of advertising, to make you remember who they are. That can work both ways, though. I will not buy a Chevrolet until they get some commercials that don’t annoy the fuck out of me. I stopped going to McDonalds’ (which is a pretty big deal if you go four times a week _at minimum_, which I used to) because I can’t take that inane “I’m lovin’ it!” jingle anymore. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-company-slogans-that-just-rubs-you-the-wrong-way/452473/124 "2008-06-13T19:25:47Z")
Just got back from town, where I saw a sign at a florist shop: “ **Poo Pourri – perfect for romancing the home.** ” Yes. **Poo** pourri. Lordy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-company-slogans-that-just-rubs-you-the-wrong-way/452473/125 "2008-06-13T19:36:21Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] Just got back from town, where I saw a sign at a florist shop: “ **Poo Pourri – perfect for romancing the home.** ” Yes. **Poo** pourri. Lordy. 😃 [/QUOTE] On a related note, when did “pot-pourri” become “potpourri”? It’s two words, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-company-slogans-that-just-rubs-you-the-wrong-way/452473/126 "2008-06-14T00:32:12Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] On a related note, when did “pot-pourri” become “potpourri”? It’s two words, dammit! [/QUOTE] I blame the G-d-damned Spaniards. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-company-slogans-that-just-rubs-you-the-wrong-way/452473/127 "2008-06-14T00:35:24Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] Just got back from town, where I saw a sign at a florist shop: “ **Poo Pourri – perfect for romancing the home.** ” Yes. **Poo** pourri. Lordy. 😃 [/QUOTE] We often have poo pourri in the house, because my husband farts a lot. It’s not something I try to have on purpose. ---
**Author:** ![yams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/848f3c/32.png) [@yams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yams)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-company-slogans-that-just-rubs-you-the-wrong-way/452473/128 "2008-06-14T03:07:58Z")
[A Roof Without Harvey Tiles is Like Being Burnt in Hell Without a Saviour. Only Heaven is Covered with Harvey Tiles.](http://ideasgrande.wetpaint.com/page/Harvey+Tile+-+Outdoor+%22Promotional+Poster%22?t=anon) love yams!! ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-company-slogans-that-just-rubs-you-the-wrong-way/452473/129 "2008-06-14T13:07:12Z")
The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission (IIRC) had a slogan for a while: **Don’t Drown It Will Spoil Your Day** No shit. ---
**Author:** ![bat312](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@bat312](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bat312)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-company-slogans-that-just-rubs-you-the-wrong-way/452473/130 "2008-06-14T13:43:23Z")
[QUOTE=SisterCoyote] Sherman-Williams “Cover the earth” bothers me a lot. Particularly since it goes along with someone pouring a giant can of paint out and, well, covering the earth. Gross. [/QUOTE] “We Cover the Earth” And it is a giant can of \*\*_red_ \*\* paint pouring over the earth…some sort of satanic cult logo :eek: ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-company-slogans-that-just-rubs-you-the-wrong-way/452473/131 "2008-06-14T15:51:19Z")
[QUOTE=bat312] “We Cover the Earth” And it is a giant can of \*\*_red_ \*\* paint pouring over the earth…some sort of satanic cult logo :eek: [/QUOTE] That little graphic would make quite a nice symbol for some sort of communist revolution, wouldn’t it? Paint the world red and all? ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-company-slogans-that-just-rubs-you-the-wrong-way/452473/132 "2008-06-15T01:31:19Z")
[QUOTE=vetbridge] There is an ad for {awnings?} where poor Harry is trying to talk, and the bitch he married keeps interrupting, telling Harry to tell them about the discount. Over and over. I would love it if just once, Harry stopped and called her an ignorant cunt who has made his life a living hell. But that’s just me. [/QUOTE] Oh boy that one kills me too. I hear it incessantly on XM Radio. I give you the [Sunsetter Retractable Awning Company](http://www.sunsetter.com/?srccode=2435). Looks like a great product line. Their ad executive should be killed. Slowly. Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-company-slogans-that-just-rubs-you-the-wrong-way/452473/133 "2008-06-15T08:14:32Z")
What car company had a slogan, Chrysler? “Changing the landscape”… Uh yeah, it wasn’t all brown and smoggy 100 yrs ago… FML ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-company-slogans-that-just-rubs-you-the-wrong-way/452473/134 "2008-06-15T10:56:12Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] Worse than bad slogans are local ads put to bad music, badly sung, with no melody, and no words that rhyme. “Youuuuuuuuuu should really buyyyyyyyyyy your carrrrrrrrrrrr here because we sell really good carrrrrrrrrrrrrs, better than that guy across the streeeeeeet”. (Not an actual ad but close.) [/QUOTE] In the early 90s, there was a nationally-broadcast Australian comedy show that used to find these TV ads from small towns and poke fun at them. One time, they picked on the jingle of a hardware store in regional Victoria. They got John Fanham (a well-known Australian singer who’s been around for decades) and a huge band, and they re-did the song live in the studio. It had classic lines like: _“Yeah… And we’ve got POWER TOOLS… yeah”_ Probably more one of those “you really had to see it” things that loses something in the translation, but it had me in stitches at the time. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-company-slogans-that-just-rubs-you-the-wrong-way/452473/135 "2008-06-15T18:50:20Z")
It’s not a slogan, but the QVC assurances on some of their clothing lines as "easy dressing, or easy to wear " bugs me no end. Is there clothing that is difficult to wear or put on? ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-company-slogans-that-just-rubs-you-the-wrong-way/452473/136 "2008-06-15T19:05:28Z")
[QUOTE=whiterabbit] If anybody ever buys me anything from Jared, I will know to immediately kill them. All jewelry ads piss me off, but for some reason, theirs are the worst of a bad lot. [/QUOTE] 99% in agreement. It doesn’t piss me off, but I don’t get why what are basically just shiny pretty rocks have such value on the market, as well as supposedly “proving” a man’s love for you. They don’t DO anything, they just look pretty, and in my book diamonds, the most “valuable” aren’t even all that pretty, come ON, only a jeweler knows for sure what they’re worth, or if they’re diamonds or zirconias. I much prefer time and attention from my man (and a reasonable percentage of that being between the sheets thanks!), time and attention from “your” man is the real, proof of his love for you. Rocks seem to be more of a posturing status symbol “me tarzan” type gesture. Or a “whoops I screwed up” ala Kobe Bryant and the big rock he gave his wife after his “little oopsie”. And even though I’m a girlie girl to the max, my favorite gifts from my former boyfriend were things like tools and computer books (yes, I’m a strange girl :D). ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-company-slogans-that-just-rubs-you-the-wrong-way/452473/137 "2008-06-15T20:22:39Z")
[QUOTE=CanvasShoes] It’s not a slogan, but the QVC assurances on some of their clothing lines as "easy dressing, or easy to wear " bugs me no end. Is there clothing that is difficult to wear or put on? [/QUOTE] You’ve never read any of the “dressing properly for the occasion” threads around here, have you? 😉 To hear some Dopers tell it, anything other than jeans, t-shirts and sneakers are not just difficult to wear, but downright _torture_ to wear. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-company-slogans-that-just-rubs-you-the-wrong-way/452473/138 "2008-06-15T20:25:43Z")
I would definitely kill my husband if he bought me something at Jared, but NOT because he bought me jewelry. I would kill him if he bought me jewelry **at the fucking MALL** and paid a 600% _minimum_ retail mark-up! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-company-slogans-that-just-rubs-you-the-wrong-way/452473/139 "2008-06-16T01:35:18Z")
[QUOTE=KayElCee] You’ve never read any of the “dressing properly for the occasion” threads around here, have you? 😉 To hear some Dopers tell it, anything other than jeans, t-shirts and sneakers are not just difficult to wear, but downright _torture_ to wear. [/QUOTE] Hee..no, I guess I haven’t. I have to admit, it does take more time to dress up though, but I remember enjoying it. (haven’t dated since my BF and I broke up in 2004, but I had fun at the time dressing up). ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-company-slogans-that-just-rubs-you-the-wrong-way/452473/140 "2008-06-16T01:40:05Z")
[QUOTE=CanvasShoes] It’s not a slogan, but the QVC assurances on some of their clothing lines as "easy dressing, or easy to wear " bugs me no end. Is there clothing that is difficult to wear or put on? [/QUOTE] For old people, or people who are out of shape, I’d say yes. There are stores where my wife no longer shops because she feels she just can’t wear anything there comfortably. (“Bebe” comes to mind.) But it’s a Very Bad Idea to remind her of this when we’re shopping. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-company-slogans-that-just-rubs-you-the-wrong-way/452473.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-company-slogans-that-just-rubs-you-the-wrong-way/452473.md?page=8)