Marketing and Ad Campaigns that changed our language

[Bidin~Time]

A blurt in the blurt thread reminded me of an old advertising slogan. "a little dab will do ya". I couldn't come up with the product name for a little while, then it hit me...Brylcreem.

I got to thinking about how successful ad campaigns through the years have had an impact on our world and how we speak and sometimes think, to say nothing of how we joke around. To name a few, Wendy's gave us "Where's the beef?", Volkswagon suggested we "think small", and Clairol had us asking "Does she or doesn't she".

When you hear a certain phrase, does it bring an old ad slogan to mind? If so what phrase and do you still remember the product?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I've been racking my brain to remember something that "changed our language."

Nothing of permanence is coming to mind, just fad stuff.

 

[RobDownSouth]

"Be All That You Can Be" was the best advertising campaign the Army ever came up with, you can argue that much of the self-help industry was formed around that concept.

 

[Bidin~Time]

I've been racking my brain to remember something that "changed our language."

Nothing of permanence is coming to mind, just fad stuff.

Maybe changed our language was not the correct phrase to have used? How have some ad slogans become infused into everyday speech, may have been a better choice of words?
i am often accused of being verbose, and this is what happens when I try to be more concise.

<sigh>

 

[Bidin~Time]

"Be All That You Can Be" was the best advertising campaign the Army ever came up with, you can argue that much of the self-help industry was formed around that concept.

Nike's "Just Do it" also.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Maybe changed our language was not the correct phrase to have used? How have some ad slogans become infused into everyday speech, may have been a better choice of words?
i am often accused of being verbose, and this is what happens when I try to be more concise.

<sigh>

It could be me just coming off of night shift and enjoying an adult beverage...

 

[Adre]

It didn't change things, but the 'what becomes a legend most' campaign started in the sixties was brilliant advertising.

 

[Bidin~Time]

Ahhh adult beverages reminds me.

Are you the most interesting man in the world?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It didn't change things, but the 'what becomes a legend most' campaign started in the sixties was brilliant advertising.

Huh?

. [fucking five characters]

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Ahhh adult beverages reminds me.

Are you the most interesting man in the world?

Yes, thank you for asking. And I do not often drink beer with Tom Petty, but when I do, I make him pay.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Yes, thank you for asking. And I do not often drink beer with Tom Petty, but when I do, I make him pay.

So the rumors are true?

You inspired Petty's "Don't come around here no more"?

 

[Adre]

Ahhh adult beverages reminds me.

Are you the most interesting man in the world?

Let us hope not.

 

[Bidin~Time]

It didn't change things, but the 'what becomes a legend most' campaign started in the sixties was brilliant advertising.

It was, and the photography was stunning.

 

[MastersWench]

One that came to mind for me was, "Sorry Charlie!" From the StarKist tuna commercial.

 

[Ishmael]

Like AJ said, they become part of current usage and then fade into obscurity with the end of the campaign, or a competitor finds a way to turn the phrase to a disadvantage. Apples anit-Vista campaign comes to mind here. I can't think of any that have become part of the language.

Ishmael

 

[Bidin~Time]

Like AJ said, they become part of current usage and then fade into obscurity with the end of the campaign, or a competitor finds a way to turn the phrase to a disadvantage. Apples anit-Vista campaign comes to mind here. I can't think of any that have become part of the language.

Ishmael

I have a cold and the snot in my head kept me from thinking clearly, or this thread would have been more fun.

I need plop plop fizz fizz

When it rains, it pours, i guess.

 

[Ishmael]

I have a cold and the snot in my head kept me from thinking clearly, or this thread would have been more fun.

I need plop plop fizz fizz

When it rains, it pours, i guess.

Yeah, and I'm trying to come down with something too. It's at that stage where it's either gong to get worse or go away. I'm hoping for 'go away.'

On the bright side, the mountains are covered with snow so as soon as it clears up I'm going to try to get some pix.

Ishmael

 

[Adre]

I have a cold and the snot in my head kept me from thinking clearly, or this thread would have been more fun.

I need plop plop fizz fizz

When it rains, it pours, i guess.

The bitter old men want to shit on your thread because it doesn't involve argumentative politics or dead economists.

 

[Adre]

Got milk?

 

[Libsam]

A gum commercial, the tag line was something like "Making dirty mouths clean".

Lint Licker

What the French, Toast?


I believe I've seen its influence around here.
I can't remember the brand of gum though.

 

[Adre]

This bud's for you.

 

[Adre]

Virginia is for lovers.

 

[Adre]

See the USA in a Chevrolet.

 

[Bidin~Time]

Yeah, and I'm trying to come down with something too. It's at that stage where it's either gong to get worse or go away. I'm hoping for 'go away.'

On the bright side, the mountains are covered with snow so as soon as it clears up I'm going to try to get some pix.

Ishmael

I do not like colds. People with a hick twang should never get colds. They make us sound pathetically hickier.

Post the pics when you get them.

 

[Adre]

Sometimes I feel like a nut, sometimes I don't.