Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
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Damn right. Every time I see a pile of toys in some poor kids house that's almost as tall as I am I know they've been neglected by their parents and will compensate by both refusing to move out and fervently advocating privacy online.
Every time I hear the Klondike bar jingle, I think of eating them at my Grandmothers house as a kid. She always had them in the freezer for us when we would visit. Strange how something like that can bring back a flood of memories.
-- "It's a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear" - Norm Peterson
(Score: 2) by Marand on Monday January 04 2016, @08:57PM
Every time I hear the Klondike bar jingle, I think of eating them at my Grandmothers house as a kid. She always had them in the freezer for us when we would visit.
Weird, my grandmother always had them as well, they were her preferred dessert/snack type thing for the longest time. I doubt we had the same grandmother, so now I'm wondering what it is about klondike bars that made them appealing to grandmothers.
I have always hated advertising and especially catchy advertising jingles. If it's in your head, that means you're losing the psychological battle. Advertising is psychological warfare.
-- The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity.
- P. Hajicek
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 15 2016, @06:03PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Friday January 15 2016, @06:03PM (#289972)
Me too; including products for females that I wouldn't even need if I would have a sex change operation (because that wouldn't give me the corresponding body function that product is needed for).
I realised recently that I can remember a load of advertising slogans from my childhood, but I can't remember the brand that they are associated with. The advertisers definitely did something right to get their work stuck in my head for decades, but not really in the best interests of their customers. Or perhaps it is, as I actively avoid products if I recognise them from adverts...
I like a California's anti-smoking billboard ad its Department of Public Health ran about 10 years ago that said "Smoking causes impotence" and has a picture of the Marlboro man with a drooping cigarette in his mouth. You can find it and another faux-Marlboro man ad here [folksonomy.co].
-- It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
Mad Magazine, even back in the 60's was militantly anti-tobacco. They once put a fake ad on their back cover, featuring row after row of tombstones and the caption "Come to Marble Row Country"
I did that once, many years ago, when crossing back into the US from Mexico... I was promptly asked to show some ID. Very embarrassing. Today, it would be worse than embarrassing - it would result in an anal probe.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 03 2016, @10:52AM
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday January 03 2016, @10:52AM (#284028)
Hey you kids, get out of that Jello tree !!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 03 2016, @02:25PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday January 03 2016, @02:25PM (#284065)
I like the Klondike bar one because of an old banner ad from T-shirt Hell: a picture of Jesus, a bottle of anal lube, and the words, "WWJD for a Klondike bar?"
(Score: 2) by Zinho on Monday January 11 2016, @06:51PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 03 2016, @06:11PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday January 03 2016, @06:11PM (#284120)
"I'll paint any car for 49.95" Earl Scheib. "No Muff Too Tuff" Local muffler shop. "Hi, I'm Joe Isuzu" Self explanatory. "All I have to do is hit delete, and he's gone" A cellphone commercial from about 10 years ago from a "See You Next Tuesday" kind of girl that deserves one up the ass.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by drussell on Sunday January 03 2016, @10:04PM
Wow I forgot all about that! They'd say Head on! and then I'd yell apply directly to the ballsack! I annoyed my family more than the commercial, but I couldn't help it (it was like turrets syndrome).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2016, @07:29PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday January 10 2016, @07:29PM (#287723)
Sounds like the modern equivalent of Talking Sam looped over and over. A bunch of people on Amazon [amazon.com] swear by it, though! If it's just wax that's pretty f'n scary (and funny).
"There's no slowing down with the silver bullet tonight."
I worked in a hospital pharmacy. The "silver bullet" was a foil wrapped suppository, administered to those with constipation.
Similarly, there was the Busch Beer slogan - "I'm headed for the mountains, just looking for a Busch." Having consumed Busch one night, I, too, was "looking for a bush" (behind which I could get relief from diarrhea).
-- Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 04 2016, @09:10PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Monday January 04 2016, @09:10PM (#284732)
"You've got the munch, the crisp and the crunch! Livin' in the gutter with Grandma."
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 04 2016, @09:23PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Monday January 04 2016, @09:23PM (#284741)
None of them, for two reasons.
First, as a non-American (and actually someone from a non-English-speaking country) I wouldn't know any of those anyway.
Second, any advertising jingle is annoying; nothing annoying will be ever my favourite.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by WizardFusion on Tuesday January 05 2016, @10:27AM
Well, the BBC did bring us my favourite (ficticious) advertising jingle. [hhgproject.org]
PS: It has to be fictitious because when Adams conceived the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaints Division, all Microsoft produced was a BASIC interpreter which pretty much did what it said on the tin.
A lot of commercials from the "old" days are banned now, despite the fact the television series they would be advertising on now show far worse. Of the choices offered, I did like always laugh at the part in the Subway commercial with the hula girls all singing about how they liked a $5 foot long.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 06 2016, @03:46AM
by Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday January 06 2016, @03:46AM (#285481)
I chose "I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Weiner....", largely because of the second verse:
Oh, I'm glad I'm not an Oscar Mayer wiener. That is what I'd never want to be. Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener. There would soon be nothing left of me!
(It is properly spelled wiener, not weiner.)
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Friday January 08 2016, @08:45PM
The word "wiener" actually refers to it being from Vienna. A Vienna sausage, a frankfurter, a kielbasa, a bratwurst, and even things you usually uncase before serving like boudain or chorizo all look pretty similar.
The word "wiener" actually refers to it being from Vienna.
Where this type of sausage is called a Frankfurter.
A Vienna sausage, a frankfurter, a kielbasa, a bratwurst, and even things you usually uncase before serving like boudain or chorizo all look pretty similar.
IMO, except for their general shape and that they all look like meat, a Bratwurst [duckduckgo.com] has little in common with the other types... Or these [wikipedia.org] badass sausages here, especially after they're grilled.. But, YMMV :)
My beer is Rheingold, the dry beer/Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer/It's not bitter, not sweet/It's the extra dry treat/Won't you try extra dry Rheingold Beer (Rheingold was the first product I remember where they had black and Asian folks in the ads in the '60s). This link features older ads from the 50's https://youtu.be/f_51RANXHg0?list=RDf_51RANXHg0 [youtu.be]
Schaefer/Is the/One beer to have/When you're having more than one/Schaefer/Pleasure/Doesn't fade/Even when your thirst is done/The most rewarding flavor/In this man's world/for people who are having fun/Schaefer/Is the/One beer to have/When you're having more than one
Maybe not technically a jingle, but rather a whole song written about a car dealership. When I was three years old, ads with this song gave me the chills:
What rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs, runs over your neighbour's dog? What fits on your back, is great for a snack? It's Log! Log! Log! Lo-og, lo-og, it's big, it's heavy it's wood. Lo-og, lo-og, it's better than bad, it's good!
This might be the first ever poll where I have never even heard of any of the options.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 14 2016, @04:23AM
by Anonymous Coward
on Thursday January 14 2016, @04:23AM (#289382)
Brylcreem, a little dab'll do ya!
Brylcreem, you'll look so debonaire!
Brylcreem, the gals will all pursue ya!
They’ll love to get their their fingers in your hair!
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday January 02 2016, @07:07AM
You'll wonder where teh yellow went
When you brush your teeth with Pepsodent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 04 2016, @03:54AM
From that era...
You'll wonder where you went last night,
When you brush your teeth with dynamite.
(Score: 1) by Alias on Saturday January 16 2016, @07:01PM
You'll wonder where your toenails went
When you wash your feet with Pepsodent...
(Score: 4, Funny) by shortscreen on Saturday January 02 2016, @07:29AM
I Don’t Wanna Wash Dishes, I’m A Toys-R-Us Kid
I Don’t Wanna Go To Work, I’m A Toys-R-Us Kid
I Don’t Wanna Enable Javascript, I’m A Toys-R-Us Kid
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Saturday January 02 2016, @05:34PM
Damn right. Every time I see a pile of toys in some poor kids house that's almost as tall as I am I know they've been neglected by their parents and will compensate by both refusing to move out and fervently advocating privacy online.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Hyperturtle on Saturday January 02 2016, @07:27PM
I approve of the javascript jingle. Most toy-r-us kids probably would be using Flash as their default means of advertisement tracking, though.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 03 2016, @07:31PM
I don't wanna throw up but I already did
(Score: 2) by gnuman on Friday January 08 2016, @08:08PM
I don't wanna throw up, I’m A Toys-R-Us Kid!
Fixed that for ya :P
(Score: 2) by cmn32480 on Saturday January 02 2016, @02:03PM
Every time I hear the Klondike bar jingle, I think of eating them at my Grandmothers house as a kid. She always had them in the freezer for us when we would visit. Strange how something like that can bring back a flood of memories.
"It's a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear" - Norm Peterson
(Score: 2) by Marand on Monday January 04 2016, @08:57PM
Every time I hear the Klondike bar jingle, I think of eating them at my Grandmothers house as a kid. She always had them in the freezer for us when we would visit.
Weird, my grandmother always had them as well, they were her preferred dessert/snack type thing for the longest time. I doubt we had the same grandmother, so now I'm wondering what it is about klondike bars that made them appealing to grandmothers.
(Score: 1) by crb3 on Saturday January 02 2016, @02:20PM
It's a tossup between the wordless "No matter what shape your stomach's in" or the equally nonvocal Teaberry Shuffle.
(Score: 2, Informative) by anubi on Wednesday January 06 2016, @07:53AM
That was probably the most successful advertising campaign ever.
Their jingle went onto the top 10 hits.
For those of you too young to remember it... [youtube.com]
Not a word was said. But everyone knew.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by driverless on Saturday January 16 2016, @10:05AM
Soiuz nerushimyj respublik svobodnykh
Splotila naveki Velikaia Rus.
Da zdravstvuet sozdannyj volej narodov
Edinyj, moguchij Sovetskij Soiuz!
...
Haven't heard that jingle for awhile for some reason. I wonder if the product is still on sale?
(Score: 3, Informative) by turgid on Saturday January 02 2016, @02:48PM
Compare the Meerkat dot com.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 02 2016, @05:01PM
Clap on.
Clap off.
Clap on, clap off.
The clapper.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 02 2016, @09:32PM
See a doctor.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 02 2016, @07:20PM
I hated all of them, but if I had a favorite, it would be the Doublemint Gum commercial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHfjdxN1URI [youtube.com] I watched this one when I was four and five years old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7hwvWIK1eM [youtube.com] This one came out when I was 29.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by mhajicek on Sunday January 03 2016, @07:44AM
I have always hated advertising and especially catchy advertising jingles. If it's in your head, that means you're losing the psychological battle. Advertising is psychological warfare.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 03 2016, @01:00PM
Simple solution: stop watching TV all the fucking time, you sheep.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 03 2016, @02:19PM
Same here. I'm very irritated that my memory is infested with advertising that I heard more than ten years ago for products I never even used.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 15 2016, @06:03PM
Me too; including products for females that I wouldn't even need if I would have a sex change operation (because that wouldn't give me the corresponding body function that product is needed for).
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Sunday January 03 2016, @05:23PM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 3, Interesting) by xpda on Saturday January 02 2016, @09:22PM
45 years ago yesterday, cigarette advertising was banned on TV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBOYCYUK2e0 [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by xpda on Saturday January 02 2016, @09:25PM
The music was from the movie Magnificent Seven.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iteRKvRKFA [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by mendax on Tuesday January 05 2016, @11:48PM
I like a California's anti-smoking billboard ad its Department of Public Health ran about 10 years ago that said "Smoking causes impotence" and has a picture of the Marlboro man with a drooping cigarette in his mouth. You can find it and another faux-Marlboro man ad here [folksonomy.co].
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 02 2016, @10:50PM
LS / MFT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuR_CVcM1tA [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05 2016, @01:07AM
I remember the one where it was set in a western cowboy era, but you could see the contrail of a jet in the sky.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05 2016, @04:37PM
Come to where lung cancer is.
Come to where emphysema is born.
(Score: 2) by tadas on Friday January 08 2016, @01:51AM
Mad Magazine, even back in the 60's was militantly anti-tobacco. They once put a fake ad on their back cover, featuring row after row of tombstones and the caption "Come to Marble Row Country"
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 03 2016, @12:21AM
I hate catchy jingles because any catchy jingle I know displaces more useful information like how old I am.
(On second thought, which jingles you know probably hints at age.)
(Score: 2) by jimshatt on Sunday January 03 2016, @01:08AM
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 03 2016, @03:17AM
..it changes every year. I remember my DOB instead.
(Score: 2) by Non Sequor on Sunday January 03 2016, @10:57AM
I just calculate my age every time I'm asked.
Write your congressman. Tell him he sucks.
(Score: 1) by redneckmother on Monday January 04 2016, @03:59AM
I did that once, many years ago, when crossing back into the US from Mexico... I was promptly asked to show some ID. Very embarrassing. Today, it would be worse than embarrassing - it would result in an anal probe.
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 04 2016, @07:24AM
Apparently they don't like it if you read your bracelet when asked your name in hospital either.
(Score: 2) by Appalbarry on Sunday January 03 2016, @02:08AM
All I recall from 55+ years ago is the first line of the jingle, and the corn fritters:
Chick, chick, chick, chick,
Chicken On The Way!
(Score: 2) by driverless on Saturday January 16 2016, @10:20AM
Chick, chick, chick, chick,
Chicken On The Way!
He's everywhere! He's everywhere!
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday January 03 2016, @02:35AM
I remember when i lived in Toronto:
'967-11-11, phone Pizza Pizza, hey hey hey!'
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday January 03 2016, @02:38AM
"I've fallen..... and i can't get up!"
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday January 05 2016, @03:32PM
Yes, that was a *cough* memorable one.
Where's the beef?
Don't squeeze the Charmin!
(Score: 2, Insightful) by dogvomit on Sunday January 03 2016, @03:19AM
Anything ending in Burma Shave [wikipedia.org]
Train approaching / Whistle squealing / Stop / Avoid that run-down feeling / Burma-Shave
(Score: 2, Insightful) by redneckmother on Monday January 04 2016, @04:14AM
Empty beer cans along the road / Are ugly, many say / But at night, reflecting bright / They safely guide the way.
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 1) by dogvomit on Monday January 04 2016, @05:31AM
(Score: 2) by driverless on Saturday January 16 2016, @10:23AM
Anything ending in Burma Shave>
Train approaching / Whistle squealing / Stop / Avoid that run-down feeling / Burma-Shave
White sheets / Typewriter ribbon / Bees / It's raining / Burma-Shave!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 03 2016, @10:52AM
Hey you kids, get out of that Jello tree !!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 03 2016, @02:25PM
I like the Klondike bar one because of an old banner ad from T-shirt Hell: a picture of Jesus, a bottle of anal lube, and the words, "WWJD for a Klondike bar?"
(Score: 2) by Zinho on Monday January 11 2016, @06:51PM
Oblig. webcomic link to chainsawsuit:
what DID YOU DO... for a Klondike bar? [chainsawsuit.com]
"Space Exploration is not endless circles in low earth orbit." -Buzz Aldrin
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Sunday January 03 2016, @05:35PM
"I'm Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 07 2016, @09:47PM
Not a jingle.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 03 2016, @06:11PM
"I'll paint any car for 49.95" Earl Scheib.
"No Muff Too Tuff" Local muffler shop.
"Hi, I'm Joe Isuzu" Self explanatory.
"All I have to do is hit delete, and he's gone" A cellphone commercial from about 10 years ago from a "See You Next Tuesday" kind of girl that deserves one up the ass.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by drussell on Sunday January 03 2016, @10:04PM
Call Mr. Plow, that's my name...
That name again, is Mr. Plow!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday January 06 2016, @02:46PM
Ditto, thus the naming of my lame-ass IRC bot.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 03 2016, @10:38PM
"At Beneficial... (Beep Beep) You're good for more. Beep Beep."
(Score: 3, Funny) by SrLnclt on Monday January 04 2016, @01:10AM
HeadOn! Apply Directly to the forehead!
They must have had a huge marketing budget for this one [youtube.com].
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Tuesday January 05 2016, @09:41AM
Wow I forgot all about that! They'd say Head on! and then I'd yell apply directly to the ballsack! I annoyed my family more than the commercial, but I couldn't help it (it was like turrets syndrome).
jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0xE6462C68A9A3DB5A
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05 2016, @12:29PM
turrets
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @11:29AM
Pew Pew Pew!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2016, @07:29PM
Sounds like the modern equivalent of Talking Sam looped over and over. A bunch of people on Amazon [amazon.com] swear by it, though! If it's just wax that's pretty f'n scary (and funny).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 04 2016, @02:10AM
Corn
Corn
Chicken and Corn
The Colonel's
Kernels of
Chicken and Corn!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 04 2016, @04:02AM
Give us a buck, and we'll flip you the bird.
You can't beat the Colonel's meat.
(Score: 1) by redneckmother on Monday January 04 2016, @04:09AM
"There's no slowing down with the silver bullet tonight."
I worked in a hospital pharmacy. The "silver bullet" was a foil wrapped suppository, administered to those with constipation.
Similarly, there was the Busch Beer slogan - "I'm headed for the mountains, just looking for a Busch." Having consumed Busch one night, I, too, was "looking for a bush" (behind which I could get relief from diarrhea).
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 04 2016, @09:10PM
"You've got the munch, the crisp and the crunch!
Livin' in the gutter with Grandma."
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 04 2016, @09:23PM
None of them, for two reasons.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by WizardFusion on Tuesday January 05 2016, @10:27AM
Also...
3. I don't watch adverts. All shows I watch either have the adverts removed, or are on the BBC which has no adverts.
(Score: 2) by theluggage on Tuesday January 12 2016, @02:07PM
or are on the BBC
Well, the BBC did bring us my favourite (ficticious) advertising jingle. [hhgproject.org]
PS: It has to be fictitious because when Adams conceived the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaints Division, all Microsoft produced was a BASIC interpreter which pretty much did what it said on the tin.
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Tuesday January 05 2016, @03:49AM
A lot of commercials from the "old" days are banned now, despite the fact the television series they would be advertising on now show far worse. Of the choices offered, I did like always laugh at the part in the Subway commercial with the hula girls all singing about how they liked a $5 foot long.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 06 2016, @03:46AM
Banned in what way?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @01:52AM
Not allowed to be broadcast on radio or television, I'm assuming he meant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Health_Cigarette_Smoking_Act [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday January 05 2016, @03:19PM
Good to the last drop!
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Wednesday January 06 2016, @03:09AM
I remember that one as Good to the very last drop.
(Score: 2) by Geezer on Tuesday January 05 2016, @04:33PM
Thunderbird!
What's the price?
Thirty twice!
Actually, I was more of a Mad Dog 20/20 man in my youth.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2016, @04:57AM
Satisfaction! That's the action!
(Score: 3, Informative) by zraith on Tuesday January 05 2016, @04:58PM
Make 7.... Up Yours
(Score: 1) by fergwill on Tuesday January 05 2016, @08:22PM
Calgon - take me away...!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 15 2016, @05:32PM
Obligatory Space Mutiny/MST3K reference.
(Score: 2) by e_armadillo on Tuesday January 05 2016, @09:10PM
Gostbusters!
"How are we gonna get out of here?" ... "We'll dig our way out!" ... "No, no, dig UP stupid!"
(Score: 4, Funny) by e_armadillo on Tuesday January 05 2016, @09:12PM
doh! Ghostbusters . . .
And before anybody says it, they didn't specify that the product or service had to be real :-)
"How are we gonna get out of here?" ... "We'll dig our way out!" ... "No, no, dig UP stupid!"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2016, @02:44PM
Well, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOST [wikipedia.org] is a thing too…
(Score: 1) by WalksOnDirt on Tuesday January 05 2016, @11:14PM
I chose "I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Weiner....", largely because of the second verse:
Oh, I'm glad I'm not an Oscar Mayer wiener.
That is what I'd never want to be.
Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener.
There would soon be nothing left of me!
(It is properly spelled wiener, not weiner.)
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Friday January 08 2016, @08:45PM
It's properly spelled Frankfurter [wikipedia.org], but whatever. These Germans have no regard for proper culture... Tss, tss... *flies off*
(Score: 2) by mr_mischief on Friday January 08 2016, @10:37PM
The word "wiener" actually refers to it being from Vienna. A Vienna sausage, a frankfurter, a kielbasa, a bratwurst, and even things you usually uncase before serving like boudain or chorizo all look pretty similar.
Oscar Mayer to this day actually advertises product both as wieners and franks: http://www.oscarmayer.com/hot-dogs [oscarmayer.com]
Traditionally a frankfurter is all pork while a wiener is a mix of beef and pork.
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Saturday January 09 2016, @12:32AM
The word "wiener" actually refers to it being from Vienna.
Where this type of sausage is called a Frankfurter.
A Vienna sausage, a frankfurter, a kielbasa, a bratwurst, and even things you usually uncase before serving like boudain or chorizo all look pretty similar.
IMO, except for their general shape and that they all look like meat, a Bratwurst [duckduckgo.com] has little in common with the other types... Or these [wikipedia.org] badass sausages here, especially after they're grilled.. But, YMMV :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 15 2016, @06:10PM
While in Frankfurt, it is called Wiener.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Tuesday January 05 2016, @11:52PM
Ay, ay, ay ay! I am the Frito Bandito! [youtube.com] It sounds like Mel Blanc did the voice.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2016, @01:50AM
this one
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 06 2016, @03:46AM
(Score: 3, Interesting) by ese002 on Thursday January 07 2016, @01:26AM
Not actually jingle, nor even real but this line from an in-movie TV commercial in _2010_, is definitely my favourite.
I was disappointed when Pan Am went under a few years later as it meant that the slogan would never be real.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @01:20AM
Fedex: "It's the way you say it that matters."
Illustrates corporate BS succinctly.
(Score: 2) by tadas on Friday January 08 2016, @02:47AM
My beer is Rheingold, the dry beer/Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer/It's not bitter, not sweet/It's the extra dry treat/Won't you try extra dry Rheingold Beer
(Rheingold was the first product I remember where they had black and Asian folks in the ads in the '60s). This link features older ads from the 50's https://youtu.be/f_51RANXHg0?list=RDf_51RANXHg0 [youtu.be]
Schaefer/Is the/One beer to have/When you're having more than one/Schaefer/Pleasure/Doesn't fade/Even when your thirst is done/The most rewarding flavor/In this man's world/for people who are having fun/Schaefer/Is the/One beer to have/When you're having more than one
(You Tube has a clip of Lena Horne singing this https://youtu.be/O2vXfs1OfsM [youtu.be])
Also in Spanish - Cuando se toma mas de una! (with some seriously hot salsa bands) https://youtu.be/7L6DZfVC7mc/ [youtu.be]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @12:47AM
A pail of Rhinegeist used to cost a nickel... back in the 1930s.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @06:00PM
"Somebody put me back in the fridge." ~John Spartan
(Score: 2) by theluggage on Tuesday January 12 2016, @02:14PM
Sigh. Little did we realise at the time that Demolition Man was so prophetic.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Saturday January 09 2016, @11:46PM
I feel like I'm Sylvester Stallone, you're Wesley Snipes, and she's Sandra Bullock, and we're in that fucked-up bar.
Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHfwDt8_Jdk [youtube.com]
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Username on Sunday January 10 2016, @05:37AM
at my nards.
(Score: 1) by _1156277 on Sunday January 10 2016, @06:17PM
Maybe not technically a jingle, but rather a whole song written about a car dealership. When I was three years old, ads with this song gave me the chills:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDzctvyzUw [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by snufu on Sunday January 10 2016, @06:19PM
Nixon now, Nixon now,
More than ever, Nixon now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceocNS-toDk [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by Zinho on Monday January 11 2016, @06:57PM
Regular price, four bucks, four bucks, four bucks, not for a million bucks, [youtube.com] four bucks.
"Space Exploration is not endless circles in low earth orbit." -Buzz Aldrin
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday January 12 2016, @01:29PM
What rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs, runs over your neighbour's dog?
What fits on your back, is great for a snack? It's Log! Log! Log!
Lo-og, lo-og, it's big, it's heavy it's wood.
Lo-og, lo-og, it's better than bad, it's good!
This might be the first ever poll where I have never even heard of any of the options.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 14 2016, @04:23AM
You're in the BIG LEAGGGGUE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_6TISMW7nA [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 14 2016, @03:46PM
What's your favorite root canal?
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday January 14 2016, @05:17PM
Pepsi Cola hits the spot'
12 full ounces, that's a lot
twice as much for a nickel too
Pepsi Cola is the drink for you.
P.S.: ... I really dislike the taste of Pepsi Cola. So ads don't work even when you remember them for decades.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by Daiv on Thursday January 14 2016, @08:25PM
First one:
Me and You
A little rendezvous
That special something
That will carry you through
That little reward
For all the things you do
Second one:
You didn't have to help me
Like you did
But you did, but you did
And I thank you
You didn't have to teach me
Like you did
But you did, but you did
And I thank you
You didn't have to host us
Like you did
But you did
And I thank you
They're both horrible, horribly painful, terrible jingles that I look forward to and sing along with every time.
(Score: 2) by Leebert on Friday January 15 2016, @02:31PM
I believe you mean Toys Я Us. :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 15 2016, @03:12PM
SoylentNews is PEOPLE!!!
Certainly should have that jingle play whenever 'people' post AC
(Score: 2) by The Archon V2.0 on Friday January 15 2016, @05:33PM
No wonder I'm in a better mood than most of my coworkers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @01:54AM
"You keep telling me you're gonna help me, you're gonna help me, but you don't." Who would want to resist a pitch like that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25oYL8z6QgE [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by randmcnatt on Saturday January 16 2016, @03:51PM
Brylcreem, you'll look so debonaire!
Brylcreem, the gals will all pursue ya!
They’ll love to get their their fingers in your hair!
1950's tv commercial [youtube.com]
It's is still available.
The Wright brothers were not the first to fly: they were the first to land.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 17 2016, @09:50AM
You insensitive clod.