[Ads-l] 21st-Century Advertising Slogans

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Aug 9 05:26:19 UTC 2018


Well, those words haven't been new since 1953, the year that I turned sour
sixteen, just barely old enough to become interested in shaving products.😜

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 5:59 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Well, I swan!
>
> I ain't never heard them words!
>
> (Though later ads did advise to "look for the ship that sails the ocean.")
>
> JL
>
> JL
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 1:35 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > How about the Old Spice jingle?
> >
> > Yo-ho! Yo-Ho!
> > Brushless or lather, boys,
> > Whichever you've a notion!
> > Fifty cents for the shaving cream,
> > A dollar for the lotion!
> > "Old Spice means quality!"
> > Said the captain to the boatswain.
> > So, look for the package with
> > The ship that sails the ocean!
> > Yo-ho! Yo-Ho!
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 11:54 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > How about the Old Spice jingle?
> > >
> > > Oh....It has to be words....
> > >
> > > JL
> > >
> > > On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 3:57 PM Jacob <jappelbaum123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Just a couple that stick out:
> > > >
> > > > Subway: “Eat Fresh”
> > > >
> > > > Applebee’s: “Eatin’ Good in the Neighborhood”
> > > >
> > > > Gatorade: “Is It In You”
> > > >
> > > > Can’t find a date for it, but: “He went to Jared”
> > > >
> > > > Staples: “That was easy.”
> > > >
> > > > Farmers: “we are farmers, bum bum bum...”
> > > >
> > > > -Jacob
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Sent from my iPhone
> > > >
> > > > > On Aug 6, 2018, at 12:31 PM, Chris Waigl <chris at LASCRIBE.NET>
> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 12:25 AM Margaret Lee <
> > > > > 0000006730deb3bf-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> How about "Gillette, the best a man can get"   ?
> > > > > Introduced in 1989 during the Superbowl. It's easy to find out the
> > > origin
> > > > > years of the most well-known slogans, but tedious to do it one by
> > one.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> http://superbowl-ads.com/the-gillette-company-debuts-new-gillette-the-best-a-man-can-get/
> > > > >
> > > > > -- Chris
> > > > >
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-- 
-Wilson
-----
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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