Suggestions for advertising slogans that didn't quite make it

[zimzum42]

Nelson Mandela's Ecstasy Tablets - They get you munted!

(Got to love the odd Harry and Paul sketch - the one about give a pound a month to help a Northerner discover salad and drink proper booze was excellent!)

 

[User482]

For the January sale at Millets:

"Now is the winter of our discount tents".

 

[sheddy]

Wherthers Chocolate Originals - You'll find them in the chocolate aisle
(As seen on TV)

 

[GM]

For the January sale at Millets:

"Now is the winter of our discount tents".

 

[Night Train]

OT

Used to be known as 'suicide doors' because injudicious opening of them in the path of another vehicle would have them shutting again on the energing occupant.

From my motoring past I learnt that suicide doors were so called because if you handled the catch while in motion the air would catch the door and blow it open taking the occupant with it.

Modern rear suicide doors don't have that problem as they can't be opened until the front door has been opened first.
On London taxis they had to have an electrically operated lock fitted so that passengers can't open the door if the taxi is moving.

 

[beanzontoast]

For the January sale at Millets:

"Now is the winter of our discount tents".

Love it!

 

[Black Sheep]

Betamax- the best video recording system in the world. [heavy irony]

Actually, Betamax was better quality and more robust than VHS - VHS was cheaper and fitted more playback time onto the same length of tape.

heres one that worked in mid 80's displayed on the back window of every new toyota , was the sticker " the car in is a toyota" you always knew what you were behind , even if you could not read the makers badges

Toyota still use the "the car in front is a toyota" however now people are creating internet memes that show this is due to brake failure

Vauxhall have an ad on all the time it seems for a MPV thing that seems a usual bland GM box apart from the change the way the rear passenger door hinges (from the back not the front side).

The ad runs with people hugging each other as this slightly mimics the action of opening the two doors on one side. It all seems a bit silly and I have been desperately trying to think of some advantage in having the back door that way round.

The only advantage I could think of is that it would afford you some degree of privacy (if you were a non-french male) who wanted a pee. But I guess that hugging looks better for the ads.

Can anyone think of any reason other than it being a silly gimmic to sell the thing? Did any of you think "why did they not do that before, just what I wanted" when they saw the backwards doors?

The new Mini Clubman has one on the drivers side, as does the Mazda RX8, these can only be opened when the front door is open. The idea is that it gives you a larger hole to get yourself / things into the vehicle, the clubby and RX8 have no pillars which makes getting into the rear seats of what is essentially a two door car a bit easier.

I think with the Vauxhall it is easier to attend to a child in the back seat / install a baby in a baby carrier as you're not bending round the door frame
I think it is also easier for elderly people to get in as they can sit down into the car instead of sliding in.

it has been done before, it was quite common in the 30's but faded out due to safety concerns, the technology to make it as strong in an accident is here now so it can be done.

I presume the reason behind not having a sliding door is the shape of a slider doesn't give as many options to the designer or engineer, you also have to have the ugly slide rail


I've never understood how you quickly get a family of five into a vehicle like the Vauxhall when parked in a car park with vehicles each side, surely you need to stand where the back door opens so that you can get yourself into the front, meanwhile the people going in the back seat need to stand in the way of the front door to get into the back

I might have to go annoy the vauxhall dealers now.

 

[jimboalee]

Unilever.

"Get Cif."

 

[beanzontoast]

Bottom fallen out of your world? Eat bran.

Then you'll think the world has fallen out __ ____ ______!

 

[porteous]

Go to work on a bacon rasher

 

[Archie_tect]

"Nothing works better than.... [insert the product name].


Best use nothing then and save the cost of buying whatever it was that the ad-people were trying to sell.

 

[Saddle bum]

Max Factor Knacker Laquer.

Adds lustre to your cluster.

 

[sheddy]

'Child on Board' for bikes - possibly the only place where it makes any sense - see http://www.vizzkids.co.uk/our-products/

 

[Hilldodger]

[QUOTE 1234321"]
May be an urban myth but there are tales of an Indian builders firm with the slogan:

You've tried the Cowboys, now try the Indians.



[/quote]

It is the slogan of an Indian caterers/Macdonalds rip off in Leicester My link

 

[red_tom]

As someone who has kebabed themselves on the top corner of a car door when it was flung open in the path of my bike, I'm more than happy for suicide doors to be reintroduced.

There's a drainage company somewhere with the slogan - 'a good flush beats a full house'.