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Thread #52618 Message #1215328
Posted By: Mark Cohen
28-Jun-04 - 04:01 AM
Thread Name: Jingles you remember.
Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
Way back at the beginning of this thread, 'Spaw mentioned the Kent commercial, but he didn't give the chorus:
Happiness is...the taste of Kent
Happiness is...the taste of Kent
Happiness is...the taste of Kent
More taste, fine tobacco
That's what happiness is
There were other versions of "To a ____ it's a _____, to a smoker, it's a Kent" but I can't remember them.
Then there was the Winston commercial (this might have been the last campaign before they stopped cigarette commercials on TV) where they had some stuffy grammarian saying, "It's incorrect to say 'like a cigarette should,' it should be 'as a cigarette should.'" And then a whole chorus line would explode into:
What do you want, good grammar or good taste?
What do you want--
Good grammar or good taste?
Pardon our grammar, but...
Winston tastes good, LIKE a cigarette should
And remember the little kid walking down the street singing,
Oh, I'm glad I'm NOT an Oscar Meyer wiener,
That is what I never want to be
'Cause if I were an Oscar Meyer wiener
There would soon be nothing...left...of...me...
At which point he ran into a crowd of kids with one girl who gave him a dirty look, and he sheepishly joined the crowd of kids singing,
Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Meyer wiener
That is what I'd truly love to be
'Cause if I were an Oscar Meyer wiener
Everyone would be in love with me
Aloha,
Mark