• I am a homo. That is a good thing. I am a liberal. That is a good thing.
    Everyone is godless. I belong to the minority that has figured this out.

Partial Listing of Bush Regime Policies Obama Has Continued Or Expanded

Get the Facts on Obama's Wealthcare Plan for the HMOs and Health Insurers

About Me, Me, Me!

I am the epitome of evil to the Religious Right....OK, so is at least 60% of the U.S. population.

Followers!

"Google Bombs"

Blog Archive!

Labels!

Wisconsin Tourism Federation???

Posted by libhom Wednesday, September 30, 2009

From the Milwakee Journal Sentinal 9/30/09:

The folks at the Wisconsin Tourism Federation, a 30-year-old tourism lobbying coalition based in Sun Prairie, couldn't possibly have predicted how the Internet would change the lingo.

While its abbreviation, WTF, was fairly innocuous a few decades ago, it means something entirely different these days.

That meaning - a phrase that can't be printed in a family newspaper, even though kids all over the country are texting it on a regular basis - isn't what anyone in tourism wants potential visitors to associate with Wisconsin.

So the name has been changed to protect our innocence. It's now the Tourism Federation of Wisconsin - an easy acronym switch that avoids any uncomfortable, ambiguous meanings. However, the URL www.witourismfederation.org, remains the same.

When I heard about this, and saw their logo on TV, it made me think about my natural reaction to the idea of tourism in Wisconsin: WTF? Sure, I want to spend my vacations in Wisconsin. Uh, huh. Yeah, right.

I'm sure Wisconsin is a nice enough place to live, but it isn't a major travel destination.

 

3 comments

  1. Christopher Says:
  2. Milwaukee is supposed to be a nice city with a large LGBT community.

    I've never been there myself but I wouldn't be opposed to spending a few days there. All the states along the top like Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota and Montana, I've somehow missed visiting.

    As I get older, and having already traveled to far away destinations like Zambia and Shanghai, where you can't drink the water, the idea of a destination where I don't need shots first before getting on the plane, look better and better! LOL!

     
  3. Jimmy Says:
  4. So they changed it to TFW - Too Fucking White

    Anyway, the outdoorsy types, who like cabins and mosquitoes and fishing, love it.

     
  5. milwaukee and madsion are acutally quite nice

    and this is hysterical

     

Search!



Facebook Fan Box!


More Links!





blogarama - the blog directory