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2 unusual facts about tagline


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Tagline, a variant of a branding slogan typically used in marketing materials and advertising

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In the late eighties and early nineties, when the computer network amateur FidoNet began to flourish, the messages that were exchanged between users had often queued a tag-line which was no longer than 79 characters, containing a brief phrase (often not dramatic, but witty or humorous).


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1994 in Singapore

The slogan/motto/tagline/crest of arms "No Sex, No Violence, No News" (Chinese: "無色情、無暴力、無新聞") whose shares are 60% owned by Time Warner (the conglomerate that is owned by Ted Turner who owns Turner) and 40% owned by News Corporation (the conglomerate that is owned by Rupert Murdoch that owns STAR TV) with programming similar to that of STAR TV.

Amali Thumali

The film was initially titled Nanba and had a tagline of 2 Idiots, and thus the media reported confusion between this film and Shankar's Nanban, the remake of the 2009 Hindi film 3 Idiots.

Bacon Deluxe

To help promote the burger, a set of ads featuring the tagline “You know when it’s real,” began airing late as part of a media blitz.

Cadillac Catera

The Catera was marketed with the tagline "the Caddy that zigs," and launch advertisements featuring supermodel Cindy Crawford — who spoke to an animated duck-like character called "Ziggy".

Cakes and Ale

Maugham drew his title from the remark of Sir Toby Belch to Malvolio in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?" Cakes and ale are the emblems of the good life in the tagline to the fable attributed to Aesop, "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse": "Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear".

Chup Chup Ke

Originally titled as Khatta Meetha, the story of the film is adapted from the Malayalam film Punjabi House (1998), with a tagline of "Love meets confusion meets love." The film has Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor in their third film together along with actors, Neha Dhupia, Sunil Shetty, Paresh Rawal, Rajpal Yadav, Shakti Kapoor, Om Puri and Anupam Kher.

Colonel Blink

Colonel Blink (tagline: "The Short-Gighted Gink") was a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beezer, first appearing in November 1958.

Dbx

direct byte execution, a tagline used for Jazelle, one of the execution states found in ARM processors

Dead Lenny

Dead Lenny is a 2007 Action film starring Steven Bauer and Armand Assante, released under the tagline "Unfortunately, Lenny's promised everyone the money."

Ditech

They featured a nefarious loan officer, played by actor Ron Michaelson, repeating the catch phrase "Lost another loan to Ditech!" In May 2007, the company introduced a new marketing campaign, adding the tagline "People Are Smart" and including the signature line Home financing by GMAC to further help distinguish the Ditech brand from direct-to-consumer lenders of questionable repute.

Englishkaran

"English Karan" with the tagline "Tamizh Vazhga" is a film from the hit combo from Sathyaraj and Shakthi Chidambaram whose earlier ventures "Ennama Kannu" and "Maha Nadigan" were hits.

Glenn Healy

Healy created the "Loch Ness Monster" hockey analysis segment for TSN, in which he picked a player (or players) who was supposed to be a key player that night but did not turn out to be (the tagline being that the player is "the monster you hear about but don't see").

HeadJam

Rounds included Spoonerisms, guessing TV themes and film taglines, and general knowledge questions about specific years.

Jimmy The Idiot Boy

He appears, drooling, in the Spümcø logo at the end of pre-1993 The Ren & Stimpy Show episodes, alongside the studio's former tagline "The Danes call it quality".

La Cucina

La Cucina was an English roots style band of the 1990s, that went under the tagline of "accordion-driven funky neapolitan rockers".

Minx Nails

The company’s tagline is “Minx extends fashion to your fingertips” and designers including Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, Gareth Pugh, Alice + Olivia and Thierry Mugler have featured custom Minx in their fashion shows.

Motel 6

Since 1986, Motel 6 has been advertised through radio commercials featuring the voice of writer and National Public Radio commentator Tom Bodett, with the tagline "We'll leave the light on for you".

The Bell Jar

Larry Peerce's The Bell Jar (1979) starred Marilyn Hassett as Esther Greenwood, the protagonist and featured the tagline: "Sometimes just being a woman is an act of courage."

Ultimate Comics: X-Men

Through the "Ultimate Universe Reborn" tagline following the "Death of Spider-Man", and written by Nick Spencer with art by Paco Medina, the series serves as a continuation of earlier titles such as Ultimate X-Men, Ultimate Comics: X, and the Ultimate Comics: Fallout mini-series.

Ultimate Marvel

In August 2011, Marvel relaunched the Ultimate line again, this time with the Ultimate Comics Universe Reborn tagline after the conclusion of "The Death of Spider-Man" story arc, headed by Jonathan Hickman, Nick Spencer and Brian Michael Bendis.

WarGames match

After no WarGames match was held in 1999, Vince Russo brought back WarGames in a new format he called "WarGames 2000", with the tagline "Russo's Revenge".

Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them?

Its title is a reference to the tagline of the 1974 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

WHOS

In October 1988, the station, which had been airing a Gospel music format, flipped to an all-Elvis Presley format using the advertising tagline "WHOS alive?".


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