# The Worst Advertising Slogan Ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 11, 2003, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-advertising-slogan-ever/168077 "2003-04-11T18:09:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Torgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-advertising-slogan-ever/168077/21 "2003-04-12T00:51:54Z")
“Conquistador Brand Instant Coffee Brings New Meaning to the Word ‘Vomit’.” ---
**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:** [April 12, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-advertising-slogan-ever/168077/22 "2003-04-12T01:14:49Z")
Forget France. Come to Greece, we’re nicer. Volvo. Boxy but good. Buy Sony. Because American factory workers are too damn tall. All from the same wonderful movie **RexDart** loves. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-advertising-slogan-ever/168077/23 "2003-04-12T03:06:40Z")
“Jaguar: You know that we’ve improved quality when he fired half the workforce” (I swear that they had a radio ad a few years ago making this arguement) ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-advertising-slogan-ever/168077/24 "2003-04-12T03:11:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Erik the Viking \* > \*\*Ten Thousand Nuns and Orphans \*\* Eaten by rats. The one that sticks in my head came from the pro-lifers about ten years ago: **“Life: What A Beautiful Choice”** Rather disingenuous of them to put “choice” in a slogan for a cause that is purely ANTI-choice, right? Oh, and to continue NoClueBoy & RexDart’s thread: Metamucil: It helps you go to the toilet. If you don’t use it you’ll get cancer and die. AT&T: We’re tired of taking your crap. Sony: Bony. ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-advertising-slogan-ever/168077/25 "2003-04-12T03:20:42Z")
“I’m fat, got any ficus trees?” Lord, I love that movie:) ---
**Author:** ![rexnervous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rexnervous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rexnervous)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-advertising-slogan-ever/168077/26 "2003-04-12T03:32:34Z")
What movie are y’all talking about? ---
**Author:** ![bjohn13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@bjohn13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bjohn13)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-advertising-slogan-ever/168077/27 "2003-04-12T04:08:04Z")
Of course, there is the infamous Chevy Nova. My first week of Spanish class promptly taught me that _no va_ literally translated means “it doesn’t go”. ---
**Author:** ![bjohn13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@bjohn13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bjohn13)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-advertising-slogan-ever/168077/28 "2003-04-12T04:10:47Z")
Another one of my favorites (not necessarily advertising) is a local company that sells pipe organs to most of the area’s churches. The company’s founder was unfortunately named Johnson…which probably didn’t mean much. However, around 30-40 years ago, the company’s name, Johnson Organs, began to take on an entirely different meaning. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-advertising-slogan-ever/168077/29 "2003-04-12T04:17:06Z")
[These banner ads](http://chickenhead.com/bannertown/1.html) are hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-advertising-slogan-ever/168077/30 "2003-04-12T04:24:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bjohn13 \* > \*\*Of course, there is the infamous Chevy Nova. My first week of Spanish class promptly taught me that _no va_ literally translated means “it doesn’t go”. \*\* * * * Hey, I had a Chevy No-Go! It went, mostly. Until it didn’t (repeatedly). Ah, the No-vah. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-advertising-slogan-ever/168077/31 "2003-04-12T04:25:15Z")
I saw this in while shopping a couple of days ago… **Sam’s Choice Cereal: A Natural Laxative** I almost shit myself laughing when I read it…😃 ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Goo\_Fee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Doctor\_Goo\_Fee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Goo_Fee)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-advertising-slogan-ever/168077/32 "2003-04-12T04:30:06Z")
see… it works ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-advertising-slogan-ever/168077/33 "2003-04-12T04:34:40Z")
I’m sure it’s just a reflection of the tawdry morass which is my own mind, but everytime I hear a UPS commercial ask “What can Brown do for you?”, I find it scatologically evocative and distasteful. It’s a bit too close to the commercial in the old movie “The Groove Tube” for Brown 79. (or whatever number it was) ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-advertising-slogan-ever/168077/34 "2003-04-12T04:39:54Z")
Not an advertising slogan, but the name of a church I pass on the way to a friend’s house: **Christ Evangelist Free Church** I’m still trying to decide if they’re banning evangelists from attending, or if evangelists don’t have to put money in the collection tray. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-advertising-slogan-ever/168077/35 "2003-04-12T04:52:53Z")
The only unambiguous thing about that church’s name is the fact of its ambiguity. Somebody might even think it’s a swear, only without the exclamation marks. ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-advertising-slogan-ever/168077/36 "2003-04-12T05:05:25Z")
In years past, the Milk Board, of “Got milk?” fame ran with the slogan: “Milk: It Does a Body Good.” But then the lactose intolerant people began to get on their case to the point where they changed the slogan – to the inspired “Milk: It Has Something For Every Body.” An amazing recovery, and nobody could argue with them. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-advertising-slogan-ever/168077/37 "2003-04-12T05:16:27Z")
Sorry, the Chevy Nova thing is an urban legend. url=http://66.165.133.65/index.html]Snopes I’ve heard radio ads for Denny’s restaurants using this slogan: “A good place to sit and eat!” Not terribly inspiring. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-advertising-slogan-ever/168077/38 "2003-04-12T05:16:59Z")
Samual Adams: Always a good choice. Funny, the arresting officer didn’t seem to think so… ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-advertising-slogan-ever/168077/39 "2003-04-12T05:18:29Z")
Sorry; this should work: [Snopes](http://66.165.133.65/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-advertising-slogan-ever/168077/40 "2003-04-12T05:19:32Z")
Bloody hell. Just go to Snopes and search for “Nova”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-advertising-slogan-ever/168077.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-advertising-slogan-ever/168077.md?page=3)