How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie-Roll center of a Tootsie-Pop?
The world may never know!
It’s Kenner…it’s FUN!
“Only her hairdresser knows for sure.”
For the DC folks:
“You always get your way at Ourisman Chevrolet!”
K, E, double L, O, double Good…Kellogg’s best to you
(Hypno-Toad, is this TOO local?)
Milk and butter and eggs and cheese, fresh from the farm to you.
So, if you don’t own a cow call Cloverland now, it’s NOrth9-2222.
“Good to the last drop”
“Try it, you’ll like it.”
“You’re soaking in it.”
“Certs is two, two, two mints in one.”
“I’d like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony.”
I’m sure we were among many smartass kids who called Cloverland and said “I don’t own a cow - now what do I do?” Ah, the carefree days before caller ID!
“Come alive! You’re in the Pepsi Generation!”
“Have a Coke and a smile!”
(Another local [MD] one):
Don White treats you right on every automobile, Don White’s Car Center–home of the impossible deal!
“You deserve a break today”
We Try Harder
Here’s a test from my earliest days of TV viewing. Anybody else remember this one?
“You’ll be for B4 before you drive six city blocks.”
(Another possibly TOO local one [FairyChatMom will know it]):
Everybody goes to Gino’s, 'cause Gino’s is the place to go.
(Our version was, …'cause every other place is closed.)
Just do it.
I have a headache this big. . .
Ancient Chinese secret, huh?
both Coca-Cola and Maxwell House used that one.
I remember it well. There was a Gino’s about a mile from our house, at Loch Raven Blvd and Taylor Ave. Dunno why I remember that - I haven’t lived there in over 40 years!
“Shake-n-Bake - an’ I helped!”
I’d Rather Fight Than Switch
Nothing in the OP about “local.”
With Carvel it wasn’t any particular thing the announcer said. It was that phlegm-encrusted voice that really sticks with you. “Fudgie the Whale”
This thread has brought back some memories that have been buried for decades – like the Mattel and Kenner ones. Here are a few I remember from the same era… how many of you old farts can sing along?
My dog’s bigger than your dog, my dog’s bigger than yours.
My dog’s bigger 'cause he eats Ken-L-Ration
My dog’s bigger than yours.
Run a little faster, jump a little HIIIGHER!!!..
The kid in the Red Ball Jets.
Never pick up a stranger
Don’t put your car in danger
Now’s the time, the right time to change 'er
Pick up PRESTONE anti-freeze.
(With that cooool spy music guitar lick…)
You get a lot to like in a Marlboro
Filter flavor, pack or box. (Pre-“Marlboro Country” I believe)
Old man Adams is the sourest man in town (“Gee, thanks!!!”)
If you don’t want sugar, daddy, switch to Carefree gum.
(Grumpy customer:) Have you got a medicated cough drop that doesn’t taste like medicine?
(Shopkeeper:) HAVE I GOT A…!!!
(Bursting into song) You can have great taste
Great tasting taste
With Luden’s!