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A pest controllers van has just gone past, advertising wasp nests removed for £45.
"You won't get stung by us"
Maybe it loses something when written down....
I think the firm are called Singh Bros (building firm)
"You've Tried The Cowboys - Now Try The Indians"
There's a beauticians round called 'curl up & dye' which is a terrible name.
I always liked Prestwick airports catchy slogan; "[i]Pure Dead Brilliant[/i]"
They've removed them all now....can't think why.
Camping shop that always use " Now is the Winter of our discount tents"
For their Winter sale.
Local drain clearing company has "The Rodfather" on their van.
I always remember seeing a van on the M6 sign written with "King Dick tools"
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There's a dog grooming van near us that does mobile dog grooming, it's called "Doggy Style " 😯
Now is the Winter of our discount tents
I think they say "Now is the discount of our winter tents"
I always remember seeing a van on the M6 sign written with "King Dick tools"
We had King Dicks at school. Caused enormous hilarity as you might expect.
In Nuneaton there is a hand car wash at a garage with the slogan of "Best hand job in town!" written on a car that they drive around a bit as well.
We put "With our true grit we'll blast away your Sh**" on a grit blasters van once...
Car garage/body repair place near us has the slogan "you bend em, we mend em."
McIndians fast food place in Leicester always used to have the cowboys and Indians gag too. 😀
Iirc there is a stand up comedian who collects these and uses them in her act.
"What you get up to is your business, how you get up there is ours" - lift company
There's a van round here with "BRIAN'S WELL HUNG"' then in smaller text underneath "garage doors" makes me chuckle everytime I see it.
Caution full of political promises on a shit sucking triuck.
Scaffold lorry, "for a fast and efficient erection"
There's a "best hand job in Stoke" as well....and a mate has an enormous King Dick spanner which I once had to borrow to undo a stuck waste pipe, my wife still takes the rip for that!
The Jason Doner Van always raises a smile in Bristol.
Hunter willies - "Out standing in Every Field". Rather good that one.
What about the Sofa King. Sofa King good.
There's a dog walker near here with a van, on the side it says, 'The Fairy Dogmother'
There used to be a Dogfather near me, his van had a brilliant version of the Godfather logo with the puppet handle thing, and 4 dogs attached. But I did always wonder if he was going to walk them or impregnate them.
West Sussex scaffolding.
"Always a satisfying erection"
On Penarth Road, Cardiff there was a white-goods shop a couple of years back called 'Sell Fridges'
It still makes me chuckle
When I worked in Sydney years ago there was a garden maintenance company called mown & groan
Hunter willies?! Great autocorrect 😀
I love a good unnecessary strap line.
Scottish Woman Magazine used to have the strap line 'the magazine for women in scotland'.
There a haulage co near me who have 'Delivering the goods' as their slogan. Thats pretty much the minimum expectation.
Then theres 'Does exactly what it says on the tin'. I expect we have the Trades Descriptions Act to thank for that
Volvos: They're Boxy But They're Good
Local fencing company van always drove past me and my mates on the way to school "Our erection, your protection"
There's a hairdressers near me called 'Peniel Hair'.
Not really a slogan but I might pop in for a trim.
Mobile traffic light rental company round these parts called...
Rent a Q
A courier called Fox's Pacier Sprints
A butcher shop in So CA. Slogan went. You can't beat Pete's meat. He was made to remove it.
Not quite a slogan but a local sarnie shop delivery van has 'No sausages or bacon are left in this vehicle overnight.' written on the back door. Makes me smile every time I see it. 🙂
RM.
Another we've put on a few vans. Fencing company in Bristol, "tell us where to go and we'll take a fence"
Not quite a slogan but a local sarnie shop delivery van has 'No sausages or bacon are left in this vehicle overnight.' written on the back door. Makes me smile every time I see it.
RM.
You can buy window stickers in Wigan with "No Pies are left in this vehicle overnight" to affix to your own car.
A couriers around my way was called 'R-Send'.
i know a roofer who has 'dont sleep with a drip' written on his van. his work is about as good as his sense of humour unfortunately
I used to drive past an estate agents' in Vic, Australia called 'Robin Daley'. There's a Butt Savories in Northampton and there's a sex education youth worker who sometimes writes in the Guardian called Justin Hancock.
In the early 90s, for months the GKN driveshafts place near my school had a word missing from the "excellence through people " tag line, so their sign proclaimed "GKN Driveshafts through people" ...
Working at our Wakefield office, I heard outside what sounded like an ice-cream van arriving, playing the Batman theme.
Turns out it's a mobile sandwich vendor, going by the name of The Bap Man.
This tanker came to pump out the porta-loos on the site I was working on…
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A butcher shop in So CA. Slogan went. You can't beat Pete's meat. He was made to remove it.
No such PC nonsense here in NZ - there's a national chain of butchers, The Mad Butcher. His radio ads have the jingle:
[i]You just can't beat
the Mad Butcher's meat[/i]
I think it appears on printed media too. Probably helps that he's a Kiwi, a self-made millionaire and big-time philanthropist.
carpet fitters van in Farnborough:
"get laid by a professional"
In Australia, they don't really have the same ideas around marketing/advertising:
"Beaumont tiles, we're Australia's biggest" (not best in any way, just biggest)
Or my favorite, a shop selling Perfume/aftershave called: "Australia's cheapest perfume". That's not their slogan.... that's the name of the shop
There's a dog walker near here with a van, on the side it says, 'The Fairy Dogmother'
Our dog walker takes it one step further, she is called the furry dogmother.
