The Worst Advertising Slogan Ever

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The rapid spread of SARS epidemic in Hong Kong has left over 30 residents dead and possibly more than a thousand infected. This has led to serious economic consequences in the territory and a virtual halt to the tourist trade.

But due to long lead-times, the Hong Kong Tourist Board has recently published what may be the worst advertising slogan ever:

Hong Kong will take your breath away.

A copy of the ad is on The Smoking Gun at http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/hongkongsars1.html. It’s from this April’s UK edition of Cosmopolitan.

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Diflucan is a pill to treat vaginal yeast infections. The alternate treatment requires insertion of anti-yeast cream. Diflucan’s original advertisements featured the slogan “Kiss Your Messy Cream Goodbye”. Yuck.

Sorry if that was TMI.

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Not really their slogan, but funny all the same. IIRC, it was the Scooter Shop, a place that sells the motorized scooters for the differently abled:

We’re with you every step of the way.

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A billboard I passed in New Jersey, years ago, for a small chain of liquor stores:

When Your Spirits Are Low

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“John Romero’s Gonna Make You His Bitch.”

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The regional commuter train near Philadelphia, which is called SEPTA, had a slogan in the early 90s that had me snickering every time I thought of it:

SEPTA: it’s better than driving.

Talk about damning with faint praise!

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“With a name like Smuckers, it has to be good.”

What if it had a name like Goobsmack? Or Gooblegook? Or Krunk?

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Mangled Baby Ducks? SNL reference
Chi Chi’s Restaurants used the slogan “When You Feel a Little Mexican.” It just sounded risque’, and possibly illegal if the Little Mexican was underage.

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They’ve killed it*, but they weren’t able to take it out of some magazines. Their new slogan is There’s No Place Like Hong Kong, which makes me think there’s a large Munchin population in the province.

*Yeah, I know.

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During the first week or so of the present imbroglio, Pres. Bush spoke at a military base in Florida (I assume an Air Force base); behind him was a large banner with the USAF’s latest slogan:

United States Air Force: No One Comes Close…

somewhat ambigous, I thought.

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Seen outside a small grill: BET YOU CAN’T BEAT OUR MEAT

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Metamucil - Easy on the ol’ cornhole there, gramps™

Okay, not really.

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Especially since, if I’m not mistaken (and I very well could be; I don’t speak spanish), “chi chi” is a spanish slang for breastages. :eek:

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Ten Thousand Nuns and Orphans

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Beef. If only it could be for dinner.

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I saw an ad for one of those blockbuster movies with Real Big ExplosionsTM , that went something like this:

IT

WILL

BLOW

… and then the commercial was inadvertently cut short.

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Jaguar, for people who want to get handjobs from women they don’t even know.

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Not exactly an “advertising slogan,” per se, but one of the fraternities at the local university put a recruitment sign out by the road during Rush Week, with the rather disturbing message:

**LIFE IS A RACE…

…FINISH FIRST!**

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