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* The Swedish vacuum cleaner company Electrolux once sold its products in the UK with the slogan "Nothing Sucks like an Electrolux." Needless to say, it didn't sell very well.
** This was actually completely intentional, and succeeded in getting the attention it was intended to, for years.
*** In 1978, [[Loriot]], a [[German Humour|germanGerman comedian]] whose sketch show rivals [[Monty Python's Flying Circus]] in popularity in Germany to this day, had one sketch in which a salesman visits a housewife to sell her the new "Heinzelmann" vacuum cleaner. Several times he quotes the products slogans "It sucks and blows the Heinzelmann, where mom can only suck." Since LoriotsLoriot's entire work was based on awkwardness, the innuendo was surely intentional.
** Another Swedish example: An ad which was supposed to feature a new brand of cookies and a couple of older ladies, turned into this when one of the ladies said "we like all six" (referring to the six different tastes). The Swedish translation for "we like all six" can also mean "we all like sex." That line became the slogan.