Comments on: My Favorite Advertising Slogan Ever http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/my-favorite-advertising-slogan-ever/ falling indelibly into the past Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:13:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/my-favorite-advertising-slogan-ever/#comment-2201 KF Sat, 02 Aug 2003 18:56:03 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=900#comment-2201 <p>Mmm.  Advertising.  Those slogans are great—and the appreciate/interest puns approach the sublime.  The thing about “attitude is a state of mind,” though, is that it gives the immediate impression of having said something substantive, but that impression immediately dissolves under the slightest scrutiny into recognition of the tautology that actually underwrites the slogan.  Which I think might make this an ur-slogan, a slogan that reveals the true functioning of all such sloganness. </p> Mmm.  Advertising.  Those slogans are great—and the appreciate/interest puns approach the sublime.  The thing about “attitude is a state of mind,” though, is that it gives the immediate impression of having said something substantive, but that impression immediately dissolves under the slightest scrutiny into recognition of the tautology that actually underwrites the slogan.  Which I think might make this an ur-slogan, a slogan that reveals the true functioning of all such sloganness.

]]> By: language hat http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/my-favorite-advertising-slogan-ever/#comment-2200 language hat Fri, 01 Aug 2003 19:54:32 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=900#comment-2200 <p>Seen 35 years ago on a billboard for a Los Angeles bank: “We appreciate your interest.” (Surely used by others since.) </p> Seen 35 years ago on a billboard for a Los Angeles bank: “We appreciate your interest.” (Surely used by others since.)

]]> By: Monkeyspit http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/my-favorite-advertising-slogan-ever/#comment-2199 Monkeyspit Fri, 01 Aug 2003 17:08:12 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=900#comment-2199 <p>I was always fond of “Where’s the beef?!” </p> I was always fond of “Where’s the beef?!”

]]> By: Steve http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/my-favorite-advertising-slogan-ever/#comment-2198 Steve Mon, 28 Jul 2003 01:42:59 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=900#comment-2198 <p>My favorite - </p> <p> A year or so ago, I saw a billboard for a church up here in the Rochester area - part of the “burned over district” of the Religious Awakenings - that read, “An imperfect church for an imperfect world.” </p> <p> Now that was the church for me! </p> My favorite -

A year or so ago, I saw a billboard for a church up here in the Rochester area - part of the “burned over district” of the Religious Awakenings - that read, “An imperfect church for an imperfect world.”

Now that was the church for me!

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