# Stupid slogans
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-slogans/11641
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 2, 1999, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-slogans/11641 "1999-12-02T21:03:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)
#### Post date: [December 2, 1999, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-slogans/11641/1 "1999-12-02T21:03:00Z")
We’ve had threads about this in the past, but rather than revive some mouldering old corpse, I’d like to make a fresh start.
I’m currently on my lunch hour, and one of my thoughtful colleagues brought me 2 of Taco Bell’s new chalupas for lunch. They were OK, not the greatest things in the world but I didn’t feel compelled to throw them away. So who is the marketing genius who thought it was a good idea to tell customers to do just that? “Drop the chalupa.” That’s just stupid. I know it’s supposed to be said from the point of view of the rat dog (which is easier to spell than chihuaua, or however it’s spelled), but I’m not a rat dog. I don’t want anyone to drop a chalupa on the ground for me, nor would I want to drop food I just bought on the ground for anyone else. It’s just not very well thought-out, IMHO.
So what are some current or classic slogans that confound, confuse, or just annoy the hell out of the Teeming Millions?
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“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy
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### Author:  [@Jebediah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jebediah)
#### Post date: [December 2, 1999, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-slogans/11641/2 "1999-12-02T21:17:00Z")
Crestar Bank: “You’ve got dreams, weve got money” Which I think should be followed by “Nyaa nyaa, nyaa nyaa nyaa”
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### Author:  [@rubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rubes)
#### Post date: [December 2, 1999, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-slogans/11641/3 "1999-12-02T21:30:00Z")
I find it extremely amusing that Microsoft is billing their Exchange/Outlook combo as the, “Digital Nervous System”
With the instability of windows, I’m not certain I would put nervous into the description of the product. I was chuckling throughout a seminar 2 weeks ago everytime the Digital Nervous System was mentioned.
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 2, 1999, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-slogans/11641/4 "1999-12-02T21:38:00Z")
The New York state lottery has a slogan: “All you need is a dollar and a dream.” My response is “If you hadn’t bought that lottery ticket, you’d still have both.”
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### Author:  [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)
#### Post date: [December 2, 1999, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-slogans/11641/5 "1999-12-02T21:39:00Z")
I’m always puzzled by the TV ad for glasses where the woman says “I want you to see that tradition doesn’t have to be traditional.” Huh? Anybody got a Pretentiousness Translator?
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Jodi
_Fiat Justitia_
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### Author:  [@J\_String](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J_String)
#### Post date: [December 3, 1999, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-slogans/11641/6 "1999-12-03T00:41:00Z")
The one that really bugs me is Apple Computer’s adverbially-challenged “Think Different.”
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It’s a long way to heaven, but only three short steps to hell.
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### Author:  [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)
#### Post date: [December 3, 1999, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-slogans/11641/7 "1999-12-03T00:47:00Z")
Another campaign that I’m tired of is that Sprite “Obey your thirst” tripe. Yes, be an independent-thinking nonconformist by drinking what all the other independent-thinking nonconformists drink. That message makes a lot of sense.
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“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 3, 1999, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-slogans/11641/8 "1999-12-03T01:32:00Z")
Tied for first place in the “let’s send mixed messages to the kids” category:
\*Just Say No
Just Do It\*
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 3, 1999, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-slogans/11641/9 "1999-12-03T01:37:00Z")
US Army Slogan–“Be all that you can be!”
If you get shot, you **stop being**.
Anything.
☹
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