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South Dakota pulls driving campaign over innuendo
AP via [Myrtle Beach] Sun-News ^ | December 12, 2014

Posted on 12/12/2014 8:29:21 PM PST by Slings and Arrows

PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota officials have canceled a public safety campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of jerking the steering wheel on icy roads, saying it's too risque.

The Department of Public Safety has pulled the "Don't Jerk and Drive" ads, which played on the double-meaning of the word "jerk."

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To: FlingWingFlyer

> It’s probably still okay to Twerk, Tweet and Tweak while your driving though.

In rural Kentucky it’s mandatory.


21 posted on 12/12/2014 8:43:34 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("I Only Love You When I'm Drunk" - http://youtu.be/uT-tCbvfDUg)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Classic.


22 posted on 12/12/2014 8:52:31 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

“No jerkin’ your gherkin”.


23 posted on 12/12/2014 8:54:33 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

LMAO.


24 posted on 12/12/2014 8:55:21 PM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Might be interesting to find out whose bright idea this campaign was.


25 posted on 12/12/2014 8:56:37 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("I Only Love You When I'm Drunk" - http://youtu.be/uT-tCbvfDUg)
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To: TADSLOS

Been saving that one for years.


26 posted on 12/12/2014 8:57:05 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("I Only Love You When I'm Drunk" - http://youtu.be/uT-tCbvfDUg)
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To: tumblindice

No man would admit to less than a kosher dill.


27 posted on 12/12/2014 8:57:43 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("I Only Love You When I'm Drunk" - http://youtu.be/uT-tCbvfDUg)
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To: Slings and Arrows

The Dept. of Public Safety has PULLED the ad about Jerking!
Nobody saw this coming? (No, pun intended).


28 posted on 12/12/2014 9:01:17 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Slings and Arrows

Tales From The Old West
While playing poker in Deadwood, Wild Bill Hickock asked for a pulled pork sandwich and Jack McCall shot him dead.
South Dakotans don’t put up with any ham-slamming humor.


29 posted on 12/12/2014 9:03:03 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
The Department of Public Safety has pulled the "Don't Jerk and Drive" ads, which played on the double-meaning of the word "jerk."

They pulled the ad
Over the double meaning of jerk.

Wow. Talk about innuendo.

30 posted on 12/12/2014 9:11:33 PM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: mountn man; Slings and Arrows

You can’t beat that.


31 posted on 12/12/2014 9:12:14 PM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: mountn man

Not MY endo!


32 posted on 12/12/2014 9:41:02 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("I Only Love You When I'm Drunk" - http://youtu.be/uT-tCbvfDUg)
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To: longfellowsmuse

I grew up there. Left when I was 16. Never been back, but not because of the state.


33 posted on 12/12/2014 10:03:41 PM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: Slings and Arrows

34 posted on 12/12/2014 10:08:56 PM PST by null and void (Will the obama love story be called Broke Barack Mountin' or The Love That Dare Not Say Hussein?)
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To: null and void

It looks like Greg Allman jerked his gherkin clean off.


35 posted on 12/12/2014 10:22:36 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Slings and Arrows; Larry Lucido
"Next: South Dakota pulls the word “innuendo” over innuendo."

"Maybe they’ll just spell it with an assterix."

Or perhaps try to put it inhisendo or (God Forbid!) inmyendo.

(Reminds me. I need to schedule an inmyendoscopy.)


36 posted on 12/12/2014 11:00:35 PM PST by shibumi ("Walk through the fire - Fly through the smoke")
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To: shibumi

You wouldn’t want it to the long way ‘round.


37 posted on 12/12/2014 11:03:34 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("I Only Love You When I'm Drunk" - http://youtu.be/uT-tCbvfDUg)
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To: Slings and Arrows

“America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! It never lets you down!”

—Tom Wolfe


38 posted on 12/13/2014 1:14:40 AM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: RichInOC

Robert A. Heinlein — ‘A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.’


39 posted on 12/13/2014 1:20:47 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("I Only Love You When I'm Drunk" - http://youtu.be/uT-tCbvfDUg)
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To: BenLurkin

I’d rather do the screw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA4bw7tIPNs


40 posted on 12/13/2014 1:28:08 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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