h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I am interested in collecting trashy advertising slogans, Call me sad if you want. You know the sort of thing. "You have tried the cowboys, Now try the Indians" On the side of Singh brothers, Builders. We have a local garden centre with the sub name "Plants that grow from Tom and Joe" I spotted a contract electricians van with the slogan "Don't be in the dark call Eddie Mark" So as you are all out there cruising the universe, If you spot any will you please let me know. Happy hunting.

I don't know if this counts, but one of candidates in our (NZ) mayoral elections had on his billboards:

"Vote for *So&So* Please"

Not so much trashy, more desparate really.

Again no a trashy one, but this one always has me confused :
'John Lewis - never knowingly undersold.'

OK I meant

'Because I'm worth it'

Oh I hate that one. And when it comes out of David Ginola's mouth, it just sounds even more

I'll probably get booted for this one, but...

My current 'love to hate' one is from the BBC, their 'blue planet' flagship nature program all about the oceans and life therein. Cost 15 million or so over five years and the advertising tag-line is

'until now, we've only touched the surface'

or something very like that.

I cringe every time I hear it .....

Consider yourself booted

Only joking; I actually really like that tagline - the whole aspect that our knowledge of the seas is sadly lacking, and the greatest secrets lie in the deep; so, metaphorically and literally speaking, until now, we've only touched the surface.

Yeah, I think my main problem with it is that it is soooo cheesey.
The program itself is very good, and I feel somehow the tagline undermines the programme.

Ok, I'm known for my bad puns, but thats going some.

Can't think of any more, unless we include bad puns in which case the Chinese restaurant in Melton Mowbray called 'Wok This Way' has got to be a contender.

One I liked was in a free newspaper on the train I get, thiunk it was an advert for some on line gaming company / portal.

Had a big picture of a classic boss type bloke in front of a flip chart with boxes and lines on it.
the line was
'Ever heard your boss say "think outside of the box"?'
then at the bottom,
'Exactly, he's a t**t' (only they printed the full word.
'Don't work, play games'

Thought that was quite amusing!

When I worked for a business software house, one of our customers, a pump manufacturer who shall remain nameless, had proudly emblazoned on all their stationary:

'A Major Force in Pumping'

On a bad day, this never failed to cheer us up.

'just do it'
'enjoy'
'once you pop you can't stop'
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.
.

many others, if thought of.


Dancer

In the village where I grew up there was an ice-cream van that had the legend "Ferris Ices - Often Licked but never Beaten!"

Electrician's shop near my uni: U ring me & I'll wire U

38-J

JOTD: Save the whales. Collect the whole set.

Get the whole set, wasn't that what they tried doing in the Star Trek movie?

Also another that I didn't really realize untill it was mentioned in a program about commercials. "Kellog's Frosties, they're great!". Amazing such a simple thing has worked for so long.

Can't believe I had forgottenthis one..

Local removal company just past the end of my road has the great slogan of

'Horsleys - Removers of distinction.'

I mean one lorry with it yes, but a whole fleet?

I've been thinking about this and a local radio advert of a few years back sprung to mind: yes local radio adverts, where poor folks put their heart and soul into singing out 'phone numbers.

This one was for a local college which always wants people for adult education classes and had a trying-to-be-funky 80's style tune (in 1996) what went:

For the best in....
Education,
Make Highbury College your destination...

(pause for musical interlude)

oohh! Highbury!

Yikes.

If only they'd stop singing radio commercials I might actually listen to what they said.

Well Mick, I always thought the "It could be you" of national lottery fame in all its giant-gold-finger-pointing-pile-on-the-reverb-and-make-it-sound-spooky-I-dont-think glory was absolutely terrible...

vp

it coud be you.... it just won't be. is how i always think of it.

for "Propel Fitness Water": "there's something in the water." correct me if i'm wrong, but that's just disgusting!

There used to be an insect repellent named "Off." So their advertising slogan, or so I'm told, was "Get Off."

Wampus

Here's another:

"let the train take the strain"


ho ho ho!