# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Honoria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Honoria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honoria)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/121 "2023-01-31T03:18:27Z")
There was a second verse, too: You can have your flame-broiled Whopper fresh with everything on top or any way you think is proper have it your way! My wording for the first line feels a bit off, but I think I’m pretty close otherwise. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Honoria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Honoria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honoria)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/122 "2023-01-31T03:29:18Z")
Out of the night, When the full moon is bright, Comes the horseman known as Zorro! My earliest recollection of any TV show lyrics. Original series had already ended and had been in re-runs for several years by the time I got hooked on it one summer (circa 1964 or '65), but it was fresh and new to me! ---
**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 31, 2023, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/123 "2023-01-31T04:19:42Z")
It’s not your father’s Oldsmobile. I wanna pop [pop-pop], I wanna Shasta! ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/124 "2023-01-31T05:06:40Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > “Rampyre, we have lost the victim’s pulse, beginning CPR. Rampyre, we have defibrillated victim, he has sinus rhythm.” I thought that was “Rampart” ---
**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 31, 2023, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/125 "2023-01-31T07:39:37Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > I thought that was “Rampart” Could be. I only know what it sounded like to my little ears. ---
**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 31, 2023, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/126 "2023-01-31T07:48:28Z")
Ooh! Ooh! Ooooooooh Ooh!! Mr Kotter! Mr. Kotter!!! ---
**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 31, 2023, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/127 "2023-01-31T12:55:12Z")
Who can identify this parody character, ordering in a bar,        “_Whiskey … in a dirty glass_” ---
**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:** [January 31, 2023, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/128 "2023-01-31T13:18:27Z")
~~Tippecanoe and Tyler Too~~ Good e-e-e-evening. Submitted for your approval: Bang zoom!, you’ve got a lot of ‘splainin’ to do…and that’s the way it is! ---
**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:** [January 31, 2023, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/129 "2023-01-31T13:24:20Z")
McDonald’s is your kind of place. They serve you rattlesnakes, throw milkshakes in your face, they steal your parking place. ---
**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 31, 2023, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/130 "2023-01-31T13:30:18Z")
Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce. Shut-up, lady, you upset us. All that we are asking is you throw it away. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/131 "2023-01-31T14:34:50Z")
I hate Bosco It isn’t good for me Mommy puts it in my milk To try and poison me I fooled Mommy I put it in her tea Now I have no mommy To try and poison me ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 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/978944/132 "2023-01-31T15:27:26Z")
Steve Austin. Astronaut. A man barely alive. We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic ~~watermelon~~ man. We can make him better than he was. Better. Stronger. Faster. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 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/978944/133 "2023-01-31T17:32:55Z")
You guys doing parodies? How about “You’ll wonder where the people went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent.” ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/134 "2023-01-31T22:20:29Z")
What rolls down stairs Alone or in pairs And over your neighbors’ dog? What’s great for a snack, And fits on your back? It’s log, log, log It’s log It’s log It’s big It’s heavy It’s wood It’s better than good! It’s log It’s log Everyone wants a log You’re gonna love it, log Come on and get your log Everyone needs a log log log log _whistle_ LOG FROM BLAMMO ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/135 "2023-01-31T22:37:16Z")
Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow You get three feet for your two legs on Western Airlines! ---
**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:** [February 1, 2023, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/136 "2023-02-01T05:34:16Z")
Recognize the show this is from? Oh boy ---
**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:** [February 1, 2023, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/137 "2023-02-01T11:59:01Z")
Nosmo King (Pittsburgh specific I think) ---
**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:** [February 1, 2023, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/138 "2023-02-01T16:08:54Z")
Me and my RC Me and my RC What’s good enough for other folks ain’t good enough for me! and my RC… (ad infinitum) ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 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/978944/139 "2023-02-01T16:31:05Z")
Saturday night, Saturday night, Going downtown, to see the sights Girls and pinball, and Coke in bright lights Wish everyday was Saturday night. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-age-without-telling-me-your-age-using-contemporaneous-ad-and-tv-show-slogans/978944/140 "2023-02-01T16:36:17Z")
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