The list for November 19, 1996
The Top 12 New Texaco Slogans
- “Free Unprovoked Racial Slur With Every Tank of Gas”
- “Black Gold for White Folks”
- “We’re Putting the ‘Crude’ Back in the Oil Business”
- “Give Your Car a Schott in the Arm”
- “Texaco Gas: Impurity-Free, if you know what we mean”
- “Bust a Move to Texaco, G — and Get Some of Our Phat, Funky Gas!”
- “We got rid of them, OK? We’re a whole new bunch of guys now, and besides, you forgave Denny’s!” ”
- “You Can Trust Your Car to The Man”
- “Hey, At Least We Didn’t Destroy Any Alaskan Coastline.”
- “Oh yeah, right, like *you’ve* never said it.”
- “Do people really harbor racist attitudes in American corporate culture? People do.”
And the Number 1 New Texaco Slogan…
- “If You Only *Knew* The Shit They Say Over At Exxon.”
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CREDITS
Selected from 134 selections by 49 contributors.
Today’s list authors were:
- Caroline Gennity, Virginia Beach, VA — 1 (1Oth #1)
- LeMel Hebert-Williams, San Francisco, CA — 2
- David W. James, Los Angeles, CA — 3
- Rob Seulowitz, New York, NY — 4, 6
- George Olson, Colorado Springs, CO — 5
- Craig Stacey, St. Paul, MN — 6, 12
- Rob Winchell, Arlington, MA — 7
- Marc Cukier, Toronto, Canada — 8
- John Voigt, Chicago, IL — 9
- Matt Diamond, Holland, PA — 10
- Alexander Clemens, San Francisco, CA — 11
- Blair Bostick, Alexandria, VA — 12
- Jeff Downey, Raleigh, NC — 12
- Eric Gemunder, Farmingdale, NY — Topic
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