# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/101 "2023-01-30T04:54:41Z")
Nanoo nanoo ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/102 "2023-01-30T12:47:13Z")
“You’re soaking in it!” ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/103 "2023-01-30T13:07:35Z")
“59, 79, 99” (Taco Bell commercial). Square Cow Fun Bar. There’s something about a train. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/104 "2023-01-30T13:15:49Z")
There’s a holdup in the Bronx Brooklyn’s broken out in fights; There’s a traffic jam in Harlem That’s backup to Jackson Heights There’s a scout troop short a child, Khrushchev’s due at Idlewild… _Car 54 Where Are You?_ ---
**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 30, 2023, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/105 "2023-01-30T14:33:22Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > 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! > [@Lumpy](#): > > “It takes two hands to handle a Whopper > The two-fisted burger at Burger King” I don’t remember either of those, but I do remember: 🎶 Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce Special orders don’t upset us All we ask is that you let us Serve it your way Have it yooouuure way Have it your way! Have it yooouuure way At Burger King! 🎶 ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/106 "2023-01-30T14:35:13Z")
Indeed! ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/107 "2023-01-30T14:42:55Z")
♪ Lance Link, secret chimp… ♪ ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/108 "2023-01-30T15:47:30Z")
Here’s the tricky part, The Big Fig Newton! ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/109 "2023-01-30T16:53:18Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Coca-Cola, “The Great National Temperance Beverage”. Jumps up: You just take my chair there Grandpa! 🤣 🎶 Conjunction junction, what’s your function? 🎶 “Nobody Bodders Meee!” “Nobody Bodders Me Eider!” How many licks does it take? But Unca Beee-ulll!! “Rampyre, we have lost the victim’s pulse, beginning CPR. Rampyre, we have defibrillated victim, he has sinus rhythm.” “Here I come to save the Daayyyyyyy!” ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/110 "2023-01-30T18:43:53Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > “59, 79, 99” (Taco Bell commercial). And today it is “1.89, 3.49 and no longer available”. A loaded burrito can cost close to 8 bucks. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/111 "2023-01-30T18:56:50Z")
No kidding. Nearly every time we go to TB we reminisce about the good 'ol days of “fifty-nine-seventy-nine-ninety-nine”. ---
**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 30, 2023, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/112 "2023-01-30T20:28:26Z")
Yes! Come on and zoom zoom zooma zoom Wish I could recall who the kids were, I remember Tish that’s about it. Also on PBS The Electric Company- ee 🎶and The earth’s a Big Blue MarBle when you see it from out there 🎶 ---
**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:** [January 30, 2023, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/113 "2023-01-30T21:50:34Z")
I would insist that it was not time to turn it off yet, because the yearly broadcast of _The Wizard of Oz_ is not complete without that Jolly Green Giant ad that always runs at the end. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/114 "2023-01-30T22:01:31Z")
Car-related: Lisa Catera Renault - the one to watch! Datsun - we are driven! ---
**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 31, 2023, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/115 "2023-01-31T01:32:08Z")
See the USA in your Chevrolet! From the airline biz: Fly the Friendly Skies. We really move our tail for you. Western Airlines: The o-o-o-o-n-n-nly way to fly! ---
**Author:** ![Arakhin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e99b99/32.png) [@Arakhin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arakhin)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/116 "2023-01-31T01:38:54Z")
Mama Mia, that’za spicy meatball! I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. I’d like to buy the world a Coke and keep it company . . . Mr. Whipple, please don’t squeeze the Charmin! ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/117 "2023-01-31T02:19:30Z")
- Accrington Stanley, who are they? If you say this to an Englishman in a Scouse accent and receive the correct response (“exactly!” Pronounced echsachtly) you’ve bracketed their age within a few years (born late 70s) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/118 "2023-01-31T02:19:47Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > PO Box 450 Was that a typo? I remember it (and Google confirms) as “Box 350”. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2023, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/119 "2023-01-31T02:20:10Z")
Who could ask for anything more? Toyota! Taurus for us! Have you driven a Ford lately? ---
**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 31, 2023, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/120 "2023-01-31T02:48:37Z")
Bad memory, more like. Still, not bad recall for a 45+ year old jingle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944.md?page=7)