There was a campaign running for a brief time on the sides of the local buses. It was from a travel book publisher, Hidden Planet (I think). It said:
“Make your country a better place. Leave it.”
Insulting your potential clientele is always a great way to sell something, isn’t it. :dubious:
Did they really intend to insult all of Seattle, or is there some way to read this where its not an insult? 
You could read it in a sort of “absence makes the heart grow fonder,” kind of way.
Right now, I am sick unto death of Vancouver. Practically without culture; filled with people who feel smug and superior about the place when compared with the rest of Canada, but demonstrate a total ignorance of the places they denigrate; a populace that’s cold and unapproachable (a criticism I never understood until I spent long times away;) an absurd cost of living, and on-and-on-and-on. I am so sick of Vancouver. I hate it. Hate hate hate. I am eager to relocate.
…however, I have an inkling that after a few months in Montreal, there will things about my hometown that I miss intensely, no matter how much I love about all that Montreal has to offer.
So (subjectively) leaving a place will have made it “better.”
That’s not exactly a great way to encourage people to travel either, though. Anyway you look at it, it’s a crack-brained pitch.
The slogan for Tisdale, a small Saskatchewan town is “The land of Rape and Honey”
Of course they mean rape seed…
I’m sort of wondering now if that’s what Al Jorgensen was thinking when he came up with the Ministry album of the same name.
That reminds me. Is Idaho’s motto still “famous potatoes?”
From Braveheart:
“You can take our lives, but you’ll never take our freedom!”
Which Terry Pratchett, in Night Watch, justly described as, “The worst-thought-out battle-cry in the history of the universe.”
GEORGE CARLIN: In New Hampshire, the licence plates read, "Live free or die!
In Idaho, they read, “Famous potatoes!”
I suspect that, somewhere between “Live free or die!” and “Famous potatoes!” the truth lies.
Probably, it’s a lot closer to “Famous potatoes!”
Leggs Pantyhose–“Makes you think you’re not wearing nothing!”
A rubber roofing company (on tv)-“Get off your asphalt!”
“Bring 'em on!”
“Mission Accomplished”
“If you think X is Y, try Z” is a common turn of phrase meaning “Although you may think that X is Y, in fact Z is far more Y.”
So the slogan is saying, If you think it is expensive to use professional towers, it is in fact far more expensive to use an amateur (presumably because they will damage your car, etc.) That being the case, “budget” makes sense as the name of the towing company: being professionals, they are easier on your budget than amateurs.
It’s like, “if you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
The standard-issue license plates still read 'FAMOUS POTATOES", but the state itself is known as “The Gem State.”
My theory about the Head On spot - which repeats the same g/d tag line THREE TIMES in quick succession - is that they’re trying to drum up business by actually inducing headaches.
One I like: there’s a large apartment/condo complex in Boston with a large sign that reads, ‘If you lived here, you’d be home by now.’
There is an apartment community between the Orlando Fashion Square Mall and Audobon Elementry School that had the same sign. :smack: The place has since gone condo.
I never understood the motto growing up. :rolleyes:
There’s one that says that in DC, too. (Or was sometime before 1997, anyway.) Interesting.
I saw two competing septic tank trucks in this area, each with slogans:
One read…
“We’re Number 1 in Number 2”
and the other…
“Your business is our business.”
During the month of February a few years ago, Court TV was running marathons of “Homicide…Life on the Street”
Just after one episode ended and another was to begin, the announcer came out with:
“In honor of Black History Month, Court TV is proud to present an hour of Homicide!.”
That’s exactly my feeling about those damned commercials! Let’s start a coalition! 
I can report sighting one in the DC area just a few months ago, so they’re still floating around.
Agreed. I cannot stand that commercial. I think I’d rather live with a headache than give my money to the morons who thought that was the best ad they could come up with for their pain relief glue stick. Head On definitely gets my nomination for worst slogan.
Where is it? I was under 11 at the time, and it seemed like we ALWAYS saw it. FWIW, we actually lived north of DC; when we went into the city itself (which was about 15 minutes further from us than Baltimore) it was to see a doctor or maybe a movie (if the theatres in Bowie weren’t gonna cut it) or to pass through to Virginia for mom’s job or some other unusual thing, but I remember seeing it a whole lot. Is it near some vital highway or something?
If memory serves (which it generally does) he sign was on an apartment complex in Arlington county (in Virginia) a few blocks off Arlington Boulevard (Rt. 50) in the Seven Corners area. I believe it was a white sign with red letters.
This approach works even better for those other spots on CNN:
It conjures the image of some poor bastard whipping the tube out and reapplying it again and again. “Goddamn it! Work, already!”