OK....great advertising slogans from the past...I'll start.

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62. Quick As A Wink You're In The Pink

Pepto Bismol

From my maternal grandfather (true story!). He was a Madison Avenue ad man back in the 1940s and 1950s.
He was also responsible for the Smirnoff Vodka ads with the slogan, "It leaves you breathless."
"Dual Filter Tareyton" cigarettes, too, although they were with another agency by the time they
were saying "I'd rather fight than switch."

His wit didn't stop at ads, either. One day while LBJ was president (war on poverty/population explosion days),
our family was driving in downtown Washington, DC, and he suddenly came out with "I'm going to start the
War on Puberty to stop the Copulation Explosion." He was about 70 at the time. My mom was driving, and she
almost crashed the car into the FBI building she was laughing so hard.

At age 80, he took up painting as a hobby, and one of his first works was the board meeting of some nameless
corporation where the board members were sitting around a rectangular table and the chairman was ranting at
the head of the table. Instead of human heads, they all had blocks. He called it the Blockheads, in honor of
Charlie Brown from Peanuts:
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He kept his wit to the very end, too. When he was 99 years old, he sent out a Christmas card with a photo of himself,
looking very much his age, with the caption: "Compliments Of The Seasoned."