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Posted: May 27 2010 06:28 pm

Why is it that, in recent times, whenever someone in a Nerf commercial says the company slogan, half of it gets edited out? It's supposed be "It's Nerf or nothin'.", but all I hear is "It's Nerf...", which doesn't sound natural. Only once have I heard the full slogan in a recent commercial, but then they changed it so that it's like the other recent ones. You'd think Nerf would want to keep the full slogan intact. Why don't they just fire the editor or something?

Posted: May 29 2010 03:33 am

Any idea if Nerf stole their brand name from that "Why you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf-herder! quote from The Empire Strikes Back?

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Checking the wiki, it seems that Nerf predates Empire by slightly more than a decade. Empire was, of course, a 1980 release, while the first Nerf ball was invented in 1969, and seems to have been a household name by 1970.

Posted: May 29 2010 10:30 am

jprime, its probably just your cable/satellite provider. i saw a commercial 2 days ago and it had the full slogan.

Posted: May 29 2010 11:36 am

Yeah, from all the commercials I've seen, it's always the old slogan. And additionally, I want that gatling gun that they have so bad it's disgusting. I want to Nerf the crap out of my co-workers. They all have wussy little sucker dart guns.

Posted: May 29 2010 11:42 am

One of my friends modified his Maverick so he could fast-load it to play Russian Roulette. And yeah, that battery-powered Nerf Saw is fun...for about 12 seconds. Then you have to pick up all the ammo again.