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Newer Post Older Post Home. We recommend Flaunt it! Braniff Airlines did use the slogan in their ads starring celebrities such as Salvador Dali and Andy Warhol, but according to SFO Museum located inside San Francisco airport , the ad firm of Lois, Holland, Callaway did not win the Braniff account until , and thus it would seem that credit does go to Mel Brooks. Thanks to Anne Naugler for correcting our earlier incorrect source for this expression which we believed to originate in a song from The Producers , but the song was part of the Broadway musical version, also written by Mel Brooks, not the original movie.
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