# Tell Me Your Age, Without Telling Me Your Age, Using Contemporaneous Ad and TV Show Slogans
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 28, 2023, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944 "2023-01-28T15:07:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2023, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/1 "2023-01-28T15:07:12Z")
Yabba Dabba Doo!!
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2023, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/2 "2023-01-28T15:16:21Z")
“I’ve never had pains like this before! Oh, this is the worse one I’ve ever had, son! Oh, it’s the worst one! This is the big one! I’m dying! You hear that, Elizabeth! I’m coming to join you, honey!”
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### Author:  [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2023, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/3 "2023-01-28T15:23:50Z")
“You’ll wonder where the yellow went / When you brush your teeth with Pepsodent!”
“The man of the hour is Eisenhower!”
(I also recall Peter Pain, who I thought was the nemesis of [Speedy Alka-Seltzer](https://popicon.life/throwback-speedy-alka-seltzer) but I can’t seem to find a reference.)
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2023, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/4 "2023-01-28T15:27:27Z")
Just do it!
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### Author:  [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2023, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/5 "2023-01-28T15:36:29Z")
_Here comes the streak, fastest thing on two feet_
_Ethelll!_
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2023, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/6 "2023-01-28T15:56:30Z")
Where’s the _beef?!_
Two; two; two mints in one. With Retsyn.
This is the City.
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2023, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/7 "2023-01-28T15:58:12Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> Where’s the _beef?!_
“My burger machine!”
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### Author:  [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2023, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/8 "2023-01-28T16:04:23Z")
“Think Small”
(Volkswagen Beetle)
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2023, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/9 "2023-01-28T16:04:52Z")
Let’s get Mikey!
He won’t eat it, he hates everything.
eta: contemporary to my birth, or contemporary to when I started noticing ads? Cuz this is the second.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/10 "2023-01-28T16:07:38Z")
One semester I was college roommates with the kid on the Chef-Boy-Ar-Dee can. Not quite a slogan, more of an icon. But one of a definite age.
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/11 "2023-01-28T16:12:09Z")
“I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.”
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### Author:  [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2023, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/12 "2023-01-28T16:27:23Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> eta: contemporary to my birth, or contemporary to when I started noticing ads? Cuz this is the second.
I was wondering that too. To cover both I give you:
“See The U.S.A. In Your Chevrolet”
That was around for a looong time.
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### Author:  [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/13 "2023-01-28T16:29:23Z")
You ate it Ralph
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### Author:  [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2023, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/14 "2023-01-28T16:30:28Z")
Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!
Y? Because we like you!
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/15 "2023-01-28T16:31:38Z")
You can be sure if it’s Westinghouse.
No more Rice Krispies! We’ve run out of Rice Krispies!
My tears will never stop until I hear “Snap, Crackle, Pop!” (sobs)
Please don’t squeeze the Charmin.
Good night, and may God bless.
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### Author:  [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2023, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/16 "2023-01-28T16:34:04Z")
's all right.
Eddie, kiss-a me goo’night!
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2023, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/17 "2023-01-28T16:34:19Z")
I’d fly to the moon for a Lorna Doone.
The best candy on Earth comes from Mars.
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### Author:  [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2023, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/18 "2023-01-28T16:35:47Z")
Weebles wobble but they can’t fall down!
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### Author:  [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/19 "2023-01-28T16:37:35Z")
Smash! Bang! Crack 'em up! Put 'em back again (repeat)
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### Author:  [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2023, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/20 "2023-01-28T16:38:55Z")
I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony…
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