Posted on 01/24/2014 12:34:04 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
After word got out this week that the new summer festival in downtown Stillwater would be called Stillwater Log Jam, a resident contacted Mayor Ken Harycki.
Now, city officials are asking The Locals, the group planning the music and family festival, to consider another name.
"The city has concerns over the name that was chosen," Harycki said Thursday. "We were made aware -- how can I put this delicately? -- that the name was a vulgar reference that we would prefer not to have associated with a family event in the city. We don't want to be the laughingstock of the nation."
City Administrator Larry Hansen emailed festival organizer Cassie McLemore on Thursday afternoon with the city's request. "Somebody brought it to our attention that it could be construed (in a sexual way), and we've asked them to consider changing the name," Hansen said.
McLemore said The Locals -- who announced the festival's name Tuesday night -- do not plan to change the name. She said the name was in the group's proposal that the Stillwater City Council approved last fall.
"Oh my Lord," McLemore said. "Honestly, I mean how ridiculous do you have to be? Are we 14-year-old boys? Seriously. Ninety-nine percent of the people, that wouldn't even cross their minds. Why make a mountain out of a molehill? I think we're just a little too sensitive."
The Locals tried to lease the name "Lumberjack Days" from the nonprofit Lumberjack Days Festival Association, which has had a service mark on the name since 1994, but couldn't reach an agreement, McLemore said.
"We can't sit around and wait," she said. "We need to have a website, we need to have social media. ... 'Stillwater Log Jam' was the name that was proposed at our presentation to city council, and we never heard anything negative from the city about the name until today."
Stillwater Log Jam fits the history of the city, McLemore said. "We were a logging community; there were log jams; and 'jam' kind of goes with the name of a festival. There's a big mural of a log jam painted on a building in downtown Stillwater.
"Honestly, you can turn anything in a sexual meaning," she said. "There's probably something called The Lumberjack, too."
Let’s talk inflation. When I was in HS you could go into a 7/11 and get a 3 pack of rubbers for $1.
I suspect it’s considerable more now.
I rather talk about public education and how incredible difficult it is to teach kids to put a rubber on a banana.
It was the name of a porno-flick in “The Big Lebowski”.
Actually it’s in Bayport.
Such is the genius of English. Back in the day, my friends and I would sit around spouting nonsense and ask, "is that dirty?"
And, of course, in some sense it always was and we'd collapse in gales of breathless laughter [and grab another beer]. No street festivals were cancelled because of us that I know of.
Next thing we know they’ll be someone to ruin the phrase bottle neck.
It’s insight into the sickened, feminized, Western mind.
Because they have only been taught how to use a cucumber
How about the Hollywood (Calif.) High School Sheiks?
Puh-leeese.
This is what our Stillwater calls it's shindig.
Now there's a reference for ya!
I propose that they also stop using the last name of “Lewinsky” because it has sexual connotations..
Careful, that word is 87.5% racist.
“...We were made aware...”
Meaning, in translation to real-speak, some pansy-assed douche with nothing better to do than get offended by some non-existent “sexual innuendo” got the ONE original thought in their head (which, of course, WILL die of loneliness eventually) and felt absolutely COMPELLED to complain about it...
Yeah... isn’t it just GRAND when 99% of the population has to bow down to the lowest common denominator - you know, the 1% who have trouble finding their own ass while sitting on the toilet...
“Yeah... isn’t it just GRAND when 99% of the population has to bow down to the lowest common denominator - you know, the 1% who have trouble finding their own ass while sitting on the toilet...”
Welcome to modern day Amerika!!!
I was never able to understand why a banana or a cucumber would want to wear a rubber. Can someone please explain?
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