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* The line "So round! So firm! So fully packed!" was a slogan from radio ads for Lucky Strike cigarettes back in the '40's, but it then got picked up by radio personalities and [[Looney Tunes]] characters like Pepé Le Pew for describing members of the fairer sex. Most Looney Tunes fans today can tell it's a '40's cultural reference, but few would know what it's from.
* "You've come a long way, baby!" Originally a cigarette advert (as cigarettes displaced cigars in an attempt to market the product to women). Now merely a shorthand for sexism... ''No. I haven't come a long way, and [[Don't Call Me "Sir"!|don't call me 'baby'.]]''
* "They check in, but they don't check out" in reference to an [[Inn of No Return]] or a filthy [[
* Coca-Cola's "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing," which was for four weeks in 1971 ''the #1 single in the U.K.''.
** Although this one is arguably a bit easier to identify for anyone who remembers anything beyond the first line of lyrics, since a subsequent line is "I'd like to buy the world a Coke and keep it company."
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