Adventures in civic marketing

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1. Meh, another tempest in a teapot by folks that can’t or won’t use the English language correctly. Kind of like folks that object to the word niggardlyReport

   1. So we can put you down for the pro-rape crowd? Why am I not surprised…Report

      1. Being a republican, I certainly am.Report

   2. I brought this up in a post a while back..over a year…and wasn’t believed…until I posted a Wash Post link to the story about a guy using niggardly in a meeting and being suspended/fired.Report

      1. Please tell me this isn’t going to be one of those threads where folks point to a guy who called his white co-workers cheapskates but found an archaic synonym that sounds like an ethnic slur for his black co-worker, and say “this proves liberals are wrong”Report

         1. Actually, he said it to a group of black people and one took offense. Demands were made. He was fired. He was offered his job back when the “full investigation” determined that he used the word “niggardly” not “the n word”. It’s a nice intersection of ignorance, racism, bloated outrage, and entitlement politics. Your nation’s capital.Report

2. Al Jourgensen could not be reached for comment.Report

   1. There’s a reason the Knack named it “My Canola”.Report

      1. @mike-schilling
         Don’t plant the seeds of bad jokes.Report

   2. Great. Now I’ve got Stigmata stuck in my head.Report

      1. I remember when I learned this was the source of the album name.

         “Can’t POSSIBLY be true”, I thought.Report

3. If the Washington NFL team were called the Rapists, not only would they not change it, they’d insist that most women didn’t find it offensive.Report

   1. . . . and then the fans would come up with a “cheer” consisting of mimicking . . .Report

   2. Mike

      We could call them the washington strawmen in honor of your nonsensical post.Report

      1. I believe the Washington Strawmen prefer to be called the Generals.Report

4. Funny thing is I can totally see a city naming it after real rape, cause you know, all those indigenous peoples getting raped a killed during the white migration and such…Report

   1. Don’t you mean because they keep on raping the women now?
      There are funny laws about Indian property, and there’s more than one small town thinks they got the right to rape women.

      Oh, no, the bastards weren’t too happy when someone decided to set up a women’s shelter.
      So unhappy they dared to burn the place down…Report

   2. Ortega famously argues that the state originated out of rape and abduction.Report

      1. I’m glad we kicked his ass out of Nicaragua.Report

5. We almost got Missouri Loves Company as a slogan.
   It made it into the final round, it did.Report

6. Solution – give Salt-N-Peppa honorary citizenship and make the slogan “Land of Rappin’ Honeys”.Report

7. Also, from the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board c. 20 or 25 years ago.

   http://www.funnysigns.net/files/pork-love-400×269.jpgReport

   1. They should get together with these people.Report

8. They should change rape to rapeseed to clarify for all they poorly educated folks out there. It’s sad that folks have been dumbed down so much. It’s also sad that Canada isn’t immune from this growing phenomenon.Report

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   1. As I noted last time, because of your past your leash is shorter than most when you try to push the envelope like that. Come back in three weeks.Report

10. And this is why it’s called canola now.Report

    1. @katherinemw

       Canola and rape are not the same. Canola is rape that has been bred so that its oil has different properties.Report

       1. They’re very similar, though, and they did change the name for PR/sales reasons so that they wouldn’t be selling it as “rapeseed”.Report

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