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— Perri Nelson, November 6, 2008
Say WA? (TF)
Published Tue, Oct 17 2006 3:45 AM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics, Travel
Leaning Straight Up says Say Buh Bye to Say WA. I have to agree. This was a really LAME tourism slogan. If King 5 was still airing new episodes of Almost Live, you can bet that this slogan would have made "The LAME List".
Karl goes on to say
The readers of the various blogs that covered this fiasco came out in droves to suggest other alternatives that were relevant and friendly and effective.
Maybe someone at state level should pay attention to them.
Too bad nobody at the state level ever seems to really pay attention to what the people really want. If they did, maybe we wouldn't be paying for two new sports stadiums or worrying about whether we're going to have to deal with another fiasco like "the big dig" in Seattle.
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