Years ago I saw a bottle in a drug store, which was the color of a 7-up bottle and the liquid in it was clear. It was:
Citrona The Sparkling Laxative.
Last week I saw a flyer posted on a news box in Berkeley that read:
I lost 40 lbs. in 2 weeks! Samples available.
I remember Corn Nuts had an ad blitz some years back with “Bust A Nut” as the new slogan. There were radio spots that played up the masturbation angle to the hilt. There was a song that went something like “bust a nut at school, just don’t get caught”. This one came and went rather fast, but to this day Corn Nuts remind me of someone jerking off in a toilet stall.
My God, is this for real? Not a hack?
Laputa was the name of the “Floating Island” in Jonathan Swift’s satire Gulliver’s Travels. He even gives a hack etymology for the name. But it’s evident to anyone who knows Spanish that “La Puta” = “The Whore”.
This is a name to give a car in a Spanish-speaking country???
(sings to tune of “Hakuna Matata”)
Maz-a-da Laputa
What a wonderful phrase!
Maz-a-da Laputa
Ain’t no passing craze!
As a Bush supporter, I am offended that nobody mentioned his campaign slogan of his top ten priorities. Don’t remember the first, but number 2 was:
There is also a radiator repair shop in my town that advertises itself as “A Good Place to Take A Leak”.
Regards,
Shodan
I just saw (late last night) a commercial for a local church:
“We may not be the best church, but we’re the best for you.”
Gee, I’m not good enough for some other church, I’ll go to this one… ?
“Ten Thousand Nuns and Orphans? What’s so bad about that?”
They were all eaten by rats."
Some local concrete place has this slogan on the side of its trucks: “Your hole is our goal.”
The Ford Aspire. What? It has aspirations of becoming a car?
Some of San Francisco Muni’s more recently built or rehabbed buses have GPS-based “talkers” that do the obvious task of announcing the route and destination when the door opens and displaying the upcoming stop on a sign inside the bus. The system also plays out helpful nuggets of information like “watch out for pickpockets” and “Thank you for riding Muni. Please leave by the rear doors.”
More often than not, the bus that takes me to work in the mornings has trouble uttering complete sentences. Instead of saying “54 Felton to Daly City BART” it says “54 Felto-” The internal messages get munched as well. “Thank you for riding Muni. Please leave-”
So Muni’s slogan now is “Please leave”
A fish restauraunt close by has the slogan, Forget the meatloaf Mama, I’m comin’ home with crabs!
I know I’ve brought it up before, but since CNN & FoxNews’ ill-conceived slogans have been mentioned, here’s my favourite local news slogan from BCTV:
If it matters in your world, it’s news to us.
I remember when i used to live in boston seeing a sign at an automotive supply store that said “we do rim jobs”
An Army Of One
I seem to remember seeing a satire of that somewhere, saying something like, “Army launches ‘Army of One’ ad campaign; seeks to attract troubled loners…”
Im sure you have heard the slogan from the Pork industry, “The other white meat”, which is not all that bad, but this slogan is…
Sign in front of a radiator shop…
“Good place to take a leak”
For years, U-Haul trucks and trailers said “Adventure in Moving.” Let me tell you, if I’ve got all my worldly stuff in a truck, and I’m schlepping it cross-country, the last thing I want is an “adventure.” It was a particularly wonderful slogan when you’d see a U-Haul truck on the shoulder, steam pouring out from under the hood.
Siemens. The company. I don’t know what their slogan is, but man, what a bad name to choose.
In Ventura, CA, there’s a business (I think they do something with oil) called BJ Services. I shit you not. Check it out if you want: from 101, get on the 33 toward Ojai, take the first exit, turn right at the stop, left at the light, then about 1/2 mile~mile down the road, it’s on the left, where a road Ts in on the right. They’ve got a flag which we all want to ahem “acquire.”
I meant to include this one in my previous post, but got a little over-zealous with the clicking…
A few years back I saw a truck for Allied, “The Careful Movers.” Fairly commonplace, no? The thing making this one memorable was the fact that it was laying on its side 20’ off the freeway. I’d hate to see what happens when they’re not being careful!
I have also seen the radiator shop slogan, this one for Starke (Florida) Radiator Service - “Best place in town to take a leak!”
A sign outside an antique shop in southern Georgia said, “Dead people’s stuff for sale.”
I like the sign on the door at Schlotzsky’s Deli - “No shirtzskys, no shoezskys, no Schlotzsky’s.”
The University of South Carolina’s mascot is the Gamecock, and SC has a bunch of sports fans who live for the college football season. I’ve seen bumper stickers that said, “No one can lick our Cocks!”
Beauty salon ran this ad once in the local paper: “The beauty business is great! You never run out of ugly people.”
The place you saw this was almost certainly The Onion. I remember seeing it there myself. Damned if I can find it, or remember the exact wording, but it was something along the lines of “‘Army of One’ campaign launched; Army gives up pretense of recruiting well-adjusted folks, seeks same belligerent loners that always volunteer.”