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Topic: Just for Fun

What's The Worst Slogan Or Tagline You've Seen?

Posted by SRyan ;] on 2/27/2009 at 4:02 PM ET 739 Points
Hi, everyone! I spotted this on failblog.org today. It made me laugh out loud.

It also made me think of all the requests for taglines we get here. This is Friday, let's have a little fun... tell me, what's the awfullest slogan you've ever seen, in real life?

Fire away! Closing this on Monday.

Shelley
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  • Posted by therese on 2/27/2009 at 5:47 PM Accepted
    Just saw this in another forum:

    Electrolux really sucks.


    But that one from Barq is pretty funny.
  • Posted by michael on 2/27/2009 at 6:11 PM Accepted
    Real life?

    After 9/11 one airline (I forget now) pulled all flights out of Minneapolis. The ad in the paper announcing it had the company slogan at the bottom: "We're here for you"

    Classic!

    Michael
  • Posted by SRyan ;] on 2/27/2009 at 7:59 PM Author
    There was a local business here that picked up dog poop. Their slogan was "We're number one in the number two business."

    And BARQ's post reminded me of a dry cleaner slogan I heard about: "The best place to drop your pants."
  • Posted by Jay Hamilton-Roth on 2/27/2009 at 11:58 PM Member
    Here's a selection of some from around the Internet:
    https://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/showthread.php?t=473138
    https://www.lonelymarketer.com/2007/09/17/the-worst-tagline-of-all-time/
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/loojie/2368434529/
    https://www.getitinwriting.biz/blog/2007/04/1.html
    https://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/aviation_polls/read.main/33168/
    https://gridskipper.com/54732/worst-slogan-ever
    https://www.texasescapes.com/FEATURES/top_ten_worst_slogans/worst_slogans.h...
    https://moronland.net/moronia/moron/1064/
    https://andrewblock.net/?p=69
    https://www.ad-titude.com/comments.php?postid=140
  • Posted by SteveByrneMarketing on 2/28/2009 at 1:17 PM Accepted
    How about a small hardware store selling door hangers with slogan:

    "Hang these instead of yourself"
  • Posted on 2/28/2009 at 2:20 PM Accepted
    This isn't funny, it's just plain bad:

    "The biggest benefit is what you don't get"

    (This was for a computer company trying to sell the idea of outsourcing data processing to avoid headaches).
  • Posted by reneandlesley on 2/28/2009 at 6:43 PM Accepted
    I remember once driving through london and saw the following tagline written on the side of a white van

    ' J and J Patel - Builders
    You've tried the cowboys now try the Indians '

    Classic
  • Posted by art on 3/1/2009 at 3:35 AM Accepted
    A hotel in the small town I live in has this tag line...

    Dop en Dit (Afrikaans)

    translated it means...

    Booze and Snooze
  • Posted by SRyan ;] on 3/2/2009 at 2:30 PM Author
    Thanks for playing, everyone! Have a great week...
  • Posted on 3/11/2009 at 12:09 AM Member
    I recently saw one that made me laugh out loud in bewilderment. It was from a web-designer's business ad.

    "My strength is in my portfolio."

    I still don't get what he was thinking. :>
  • Posted on 4/16/2009 at 10:36 AM Member
    To me it is microsoft's "Where do you want to go today?". It is absolutely irrelavant to a software industry. This slogan would fit a travel agency.
  • Posted on 4/17/2009 at 4:27 PM Member
    A German plastics machinery manufacturer once published an ad for a new extruder with the headline:

    "The {brand} extruder is the heart of your manufacturing operation."

    Which was bad enough, but the illustration was an actual, medical illustration of a heart, in all its anatomical glory.

    It was simultaneously tasteless and fascinatingly bad at the same time.

  • Posted by Gary Bloomer on 5/5/2009 at 11:06 AM Member
    Many years ago I came across a balloon company in the UK. Their slogan was: "Adding know how to blow how!"
  • Posted on 6/6/2009 at 3:34 PM Member
    What about the taglines used in South Africa:

    By Electrolux (Vacuum cleaner)
    "Nothing sucks like an electrolux"

    OR

    By Budget Insurance (Insurance Company)
    "Budget for more"

    Electrolux really "blew" it LOL with that tagline...but Budget Insurance, for me, is the worst as it seems that they are telling you to budget for their "higher premiums"...

    That's about all I can think of right now...

    Kevin Davis
    South Africa
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