# Tell Me Your Age, Without Telling Me Your Age, Using Contemporaneous Ad and TV Show Slogans **URL:** \ **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:** 10
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2023, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/181 "2023-02-10T21:21:28Z")
Uh oh, Spaghetti-o! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/182 "2023-02-11T01:50:26Z")
I’d rather fight than switch ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2023, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/183 "2023-02-11T09:34:22Z")
Where’s The Beef? He won’t tell you, I just did. Who you gonna call? Norm! ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2023, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/184 "2023-02-11T11:28:36Z")
Whenever I hear Rossini’s William Tell overture, I have to restrain the urge to gallop round the room. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2023, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/185 "2023-02-11T12:06:46Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > AARP of course would love to start soliciting people for membership when they turn 30, if only more such people would sign up. I got my first AARP solicitation when I was in my 20s. They sent something to my parents house, where I was no longer a resident. Back to the topic: “De plane, de plane!” [German accent]“I hear you!”[/German accent] ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2023, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/186 "2023-02-11T23:01:34Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > Whenever I hear Rossini’s William Tell overture, Also known as the Lone Ranger overture. > [@](#): > > I have to restrain the urge to gallop round the room. But do you call out “Hi Ho, Silver! Away!” at the appropriate time? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/187 "2023-02-13T22:54:30Z")
[“Now I know!” “And knowing is half the battle”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E4QRHAm4To) Also “[We make holes in teeth! We make holes in teeth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU0jORrf0FA)!” ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2023, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/188 "2023-02-26T02:47:20Z")
In HS Film Art class, we watched a movie that covered the making of a well-known commercial. I want to say it was for 7up, involving delivering the tasty, cold beverage somewhere deep in the sandy Sahara. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/189 "2023-03-01T06:28:26Z")
Ooey gooey, rich and chewy inside… Golden cakey, tender flakey outside… Wrap the inside in the outside–is it good? Darn tootin’! Doin’ the Big…Fig…Newton! (here’s the tricky part!) The Big…Fig…Newtonnnn! ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/190 "2023-03-01T16:33:26Z")
Good morning, yesterday You wake up, and time has slipped away And suddenly, it’s hard to find The memories you left behind Remember Do you remember? The times of your life. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/191 "2023-03-02T14:04:38Z")
Don’t squeeze the Charmin! ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/192 "2023-03-02T14:18:36Z")
No, but sometimes I do when I play Maxwell’s Silver Hammer. _Hi Ho Silver Away, Bang, Bang!_ _Hi kids! Put your Winky Dink magic screen in front of your TV screen and rub it hard with your magic cloth to make it hold fast…_ ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/193 "2023-03-02T15:54:03Z")
“I can’t stand to live another day without air conditioning” “Paper says tomorrow’s gonna be hotter!” ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2023, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/194 "2023-03-19T12:49:29Z")
One from the UK, a slogan that famously killed the product it was promoting - a moody noir-ish scene of a man wandering along the Thames Embankment, and lighting a cigarette : “You’re Never Alone With A Strand”. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2023, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/195 "2023-03-19T14:06:02Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Who can identify this parody character, ordering in a bar, > >        “_Whiskey … in a dirty glass_” Cary Granite, as the hard-boiled private detective Fred wanted to hire when he found Wilma’s stash of love letters that he didn’t remember he’d written. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2023, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/196 "2023-03-19T15:04:41Z")
_Whaddya want When ya gotta have somethin’ And it’s gotta be sweet And it’s gotta be a lot And you’ve only got a dime? Whaddya want?_ And… _You’ve got a good thing going when you light up a Kent!_ ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2023, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/197 "2023-03-19T16:39:01Z")
I just washed my hair and I can’t do a thing with it! ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/198 "2023-03-20T02:18:54Z")
Noooobody… (central IN market) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/199 "2023-03-20T03:19:26Z")
“Two big pieces! Take a look at my fries, fries, fries! I’m in a crispy-breaded mood!” ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/200 "2023-03-20T07:56:56Z")
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