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Wow, their current slogan is even more ill-advised, isn't it. The scary thing is, somebody got paid alot of money for coming up with that.

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WyoBadger wrote:Wow, their current slogan is even more ill-advised, isn't it. The scary thing is, somebody got paid alot of money for coming up with that.

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I think it falls under "if there's no market, create one", a subset of which entails creative ways of grasping at straws, it looks like.
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Someone tell me if this is a stupid/Dadaist/whatever marketing slogan: at the corner of my block is a wee little sign for a yard sale that reads, "QUIESCENT RUMMAGE!!", with day and address. I'm not kidding.

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Near my home, on a stretch of winding coastal road beside cliffs, some thoughtful authority place the sign: CAUTION: FALLING BOULDERS NEXT 20 KM.

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My favorite unfortunate misuse of "hipsterism" in advertising:
McDonalds ran an Internet banner ad of a young, African-American
man dreaming of a burger, and saying "Double Cheeseburger? I'd Hit It"!
Of course, a quick Google search would have revealed that such a slogan
would make people think the young man wished to get "intimate" with the
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fearfaoin wrote:Of course, a quick Google search would have revealed that such a slogan would make people think the young man wished to get "intimate" with the sandwich.
Why does this remind me of that movie American Pie? :o

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Here is a recent example of supremely bad marketing.

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Olympia Beer made a light beer called Olympia Gold. The slogan used in Olympia Gold commercials was "All our water is personally passed by our inspector.". That is wrong on so many levels.
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Rod Sprague wrote:Olympia Beer made a light beer called Olympia Gold. The slogan used in Olympia Gold commercials was "All our water is personally passed by our inspector.". That is wrong on so many levels.
Supports the idea that it tastes like p*ss, though, and wouldn't that actually be truth in advertizing?? :D

I find it rather ironically amusing to see that many of the p*ss poor beers have ads now that portray their loyal clients as idiots. :lol:
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Rod Sprague wrote:Olympia Beer made a light beer called Olympia Gold. The slogan used in Olympia Gold commercials was "All our water is personally passed by our inspector.". That is wrong on so many levels.
including the unemployment of the Native Americans responsible for the passing of the regular product line.
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Denny wrote:
Rod Sprague wrote:Olympia Beer made a light beer called Olympia Gold. The slogan used in Olympia Gold commercials was "All our water is personally passed by our inspector.". That is wrong on so many levels.
including the unemployment of the Native Americans responsible for the passing of the regular product line.
In the imortal word of Sunny Beaudelaire, "Expound?"
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the can had somethin' like "water from fresh mountain streams" with a picture of a waterfall

joke was if you could blow up the picture you could see the Indian...

Horrid stuff it was... :D
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Denny wrote:the can had somethin' like "water from fresh mountain streams" with a picture of a waterfall

joke was if you could blow up the picture you could see the Indian...

Horrid stuff it was... :D
:lol: :lol:

Ah-ha, then... it would have been a turning of the tables, eh? How positively appropriate. :D
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