# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/21 "2023-01-28T16:51:55Z")
Flexible, very flexible! … This one’s got a lotta crust! Plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is! Tacatacatactacatacataca Taco Bell! Red Lobster for the seafood lover in you Arthur Treacher’s Fish and Chips … the meal you cannot make at home! Vooooooooolaaaaaare! (Plymouth Volare) Rich, Corinthian leather …. Godfather’s Pizza … the pizza you can’t refuse I don’t wanna grow up. I’m a Toys R Us kid … ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/22 "2023-01-28T16:52:53Z")
Are you from Cleveland? Froggy! My answer is Plop Plop fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is. Also-ring around the collar! ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/23 "2023-01-28T16:54:20Z")
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, A tale of a fateful trip That started from this tropic port Aboard this tiny ship. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/24 "2023-01-28T17:12:09Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > Yabba Dabba Doo!! That makes you about 12,000 years old ! ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/25 "2023-01-28T17:17:16Z")
Well, growing up brontosaurus was a thing. Known for its delicious ribs. Then they changed the name to apatosaurus. Then they said it never existed. Then they brought it back. Whatever that means when talking about extinct rib-birds. ---
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/26 "2023-01-28T17:32:36Z")
And I’d have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn’t for you meddling kids. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/27 "2023-01-28T17:38:47Z")
My baloney has a first name It’s O-S-C-A-R My baloney had a second name It’s M-A-Y-E-R Oh I love to eat it every day And if you ask me why? I’ll saaaaaay… 'Cause Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A! Yes, I spelled it “baloney.” That’s how he says it, that’s how I spells it. Also, the whole, wide world lives Armour hot dogs ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/28 "2023-01-28T17:39:15Z")
I have the preamble to the Constitution committed to memory…but only if I sing it. ETA: on rereading the OP title, it’s slogans from TV shows and ads. I don’t think the preamble to the Constitution is a slogan…or is it? Anyway, I willl also submit: Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun! ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/29 "2023-01-28T17:45:59Z")
“Lucky Strike Green Has Gone To War” ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/30 "2023-01-28T17:51:52Z")
_“You’ll run faster, jump higher… in P.F. Flyers!”_ Didn’t just hear it, I believed it. . > [@LSLGuy](#): > > One semester I was college roommates with the kid on the Chef-Boy-Ar-Dee can. At college, I hung out with one of the Cambell’s Soup Twins (got to meet the other). ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/31 "2023-01-28T18:07:15Z")
It’s Howdy Doody Time. It’s Howdy Doody Time. Bob Smith and Howdy too Say Howdy Do to you. Let’s give a rousing cheer 'Cause Howdy Doody’s here. It’s time to start the show, So kids let’s go! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/32 "2023-01-28T18:45:13Z")
> [@digs](#): > > _“You’ll run faster, jump higher… in P.F. Flyers!”_ > > Didn’t just hear it, I believed it. I was about 8 when I _insisted_ Mom get me some for that exact same reason. Had to be the high-tops too. They didn’t seem to help much (if at all) over our more typical Keds. The beginning of the end of my age of innocence. Destroyed by flim-flammery in the cutthroat sneaker biz. Sigh. Been downhill ever since. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/33 "2023-01-28T18:49:23Z")
Quisp cereal is full of QUAZY energy! ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/34 "2023-01-28T18:52:39Z")
> [@2\_More\_Bits](#): > > I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony… _It’s the real thing, Coke is_ ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/35 "2023-01-28T19:00:02Z")
Half the fun of having feet is Red Goose shoes. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/36 "2023-01-28T19:06:32Z")
🎵 It’s Smiling Saturday Morning, this fall on NBC Got it made in the sunshine, got it made in the shade. 🎶 We start out with an English muffin, Then add cheese and egg and something Really good! Canadian bacon! Yes, that’s how we go about making Breakfast! McDonald’s Breakfast! [can’t remember the next line] We do it all for you! Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don’t. Peter Paul Almond Joy’s got nuts. Peter Paul Mounds don’t. Almond Joy’s got real milk chocolate (Yeah, yeah, yeah) Coconut and munchy nuts too. Mounds got deep dark chocolate And chewy coconut, ooh! I’m the marvelous magical Burger King. I can do most anything. Watch me kids, as I twist my ring. Like magic! We’re at Burger King! ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/37 "2023-01-28T19:06:42Z")
Look out, Astroboy! It’s the beast from 20,000 fathoms! Look how this Arrow shirt handles jumping on a trampoline! ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/38 "2023-01-28T19:07:25Z")
Give a hoot, don’t pollute If you’re not recycling you’re throwing it all away. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/39 "2023-01-28T19:14:02Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Give a hoot, don’t pollute Help Woodsy spread the word Never be a dirty bird In the city or in the woods Help keep America looking good! ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/40 "2023-01-28T19:17:58Z")
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