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Adventures in civic marketing

by Jonathan McLeod · April 22, 2015

Jonathan McLeod

Jonathan McLeod is a writer living in Ottawa, Ontario. (That means Canada.) He spends too much time following local politics and writing about zoning issues. Follow him on Twitter.

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notme says:

April 22, 2015 at 10:16 pm

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
- Road Scholar says:
  
  April 22, 2015 at 10:21 pm
  
  So we can put you down for the pro-rape crowd? Why am I not surprised…Report
  - notme says:
    
    April 22, 2015 at 10:25 pm
    
    Being a republican, I certainly am.Report
- Damon says:
  
  April 23, 2015 at 7:26 am
  
  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
  - Alan Scott says:
    
    April 23, 2015 at 11:32 am
    
    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
    - Damon says:
      
      April 26, 2015 at 4:47 pm
      
      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
Glyph says:

April 22, 2015 at 10:24 pm

Al Jourgensen could not be reached for comment.Report
- Mike Schilling says:
  
  April 22, 2015 at 10:59 pm
  
  There’s a reason the Knack named it “My Canola”.Report
  - aaron david says:
    
    April 23, 2015 at 2:55 pm
    
    @mike-schilling
    Don’t plant the seeds of bad jokes.Report
- Bert The Turtle says:
  
  April 23, 2015 at 10:59 am
  
  Great. Now I’ve got Stigmata stuck in my head.Report
  - Glyph says:
    
    April 23, 2015 at 11:02 am
    
    I remember when I learned this was the source of the album name.
    
    “Can’t POSSIBLY be true”, I thought.Report
Mike Schilling says:

April 22, 2015 at 10:58 pm

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
- Will H. says:
  
  April 23, 2015 at 2:30 am
  
  . . . and then the fans would come up with a “cheer” consisting of mimicking . . .Report
- Notme says:
  
  April 23, 2015 at 8:21 am
  
  Mike
  
  We could call them the washington strawmen in honor of your nonsensical post.Report
  - Bert The Turtle says:
    
    April 23, 2015 at 11:08 am
    
    I believe the Washington Strawmen prefer to be called the Generals.Report
Damon says:

April 23, 2015 at 7:28 am

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
- Kim says:
  
  April 23, 2015 at 3:39 pm
  
  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
- Chris says:
  
  April 23, 2015 at 3:48 pm
  
  Ortega famously argues that the state originated out of rape and abduction.Report
  - Mike Schilling says:
    
    April 26, 2015 at 2:13 pm
    
    I’m glad we kicked his ass out of Nicaragua.Report
Kim says:

April 23, 2015 at 3:39 pm

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

April 23, 2015 at 3:59 pm

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

April 23, 2015 at 6:09 pm

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

http://www.funnysigns.net/files/pork-love-400×269.jpgReport
- Will H. says:
  
  April 24, 2015 at 5:05 pm
  
  They should get together with these people.Report
Notme says:

April 26, 2015 at 9:37 am

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
ScarletNumber says:

April 26, 2015 at 12:54 pm

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- Tod Kelly says:
  
  April 26, 2015 at 1:34 pm
  
  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
KatherineMW says:

April 27, 2015 at 12:03 am

And this is why it’s called canola now.Report
- Notme says:
  
  April 27, 2015 at 10:37 am
  
  @katherinemw
  
  Canola and rape are not the same. Canola is rape that has been bred so that its oil has different properties.Report
  - KatherineMW says:
    
    April 28, 2015 at 6:03 am
    
    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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