Top Ten ("...a space in the middle for adverts")

joeallonby vze422fs at verizon.net
Sun Sep 19 17:49:48 CDT 2004


I'll have to think of some others, but how about Lou Reed's Honda
commercial? "Why settle for walking?"

on 9/19/04 3:02 PM, Mark Wright AIA at mwaia at yahoo.com wrote:

> 1.  Those Coppertone billboards from the 1960's (a pedophile's frickin'
> dream)
> 
> 2.  "Hi Guy!" mouthwash commercial campaign, early 70's --Scope?
> 
> 3.  The Gulf "no-knocks" campaign from the late '60s (pixilated people
> scooting through town on their butts, the machine civilization a thing
> of the past)
> 
> 4.  "I can't believe I ate the whole thing. (You ate it Ralph...)"
> --Alka Seltzer
> 
> 5.  "Stronger than Dirt" (The Doors, Soft Parade)
> 
> 6.  any mid-'70s kitchen gadget ad from Ron Popiel
> 
> 7.   "Where's the Beef?!" --Wendy's
> 
> 8.  "Big Brother" hammer toss --Apple
> 
> 9.   the late '80s "Dr. Zizmor" subway campaign in New York
> 
> and the most effective advertising slogan of our time:
> 
> 10. "The smoking gun may turn out to be a mushroom cloud."
> 
> 
> 
> --- "Mark A. Douglas" <madness at airmail.net> wrote:
> 
>> Can we do top ten commericials next?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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