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

[Otto]

1. Wer wird denn gleich in die Luft gehen -- greife lieber zur HB!

The HB-Männchen from a cigarette commercial. You can now call someone who
"explodes" quite easily a "HB-Männchen" in German and most people will get
what you mean immediately. Did not find it on the web, 'cause it's so famous
that it's sold on DVD today.

2. Wie uncool! (... still living with your mother after all these years!)

LBS, a building & loan association commercial:
http://www.lbs-bw.de/PL4D/pl4d.htm?detail_snr=420
(get it as mp3; it's really quite good)

Otto

----- Original Message ----- 
Subject: RE: Top Ten ("...a space in the middle for adverts")


> 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?
>