Canada Ping!
Posted on 04/25/2015 11:36:42 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Many towns have questionable names, as the people of Twatt, in Scotland can attest, however surely town slogans are easier to change than town names?
This may be why the people from Tisdale, in Saskatchewan, Canada, are finally admitting the fact that their town slogan, ‘The Land of Rape and Honey’, needs updating.
Rather than sexual assault, the slogan cites the harvesting of rapeseed which was a large part of the town’s economy many years ago.
However, after witnessing hundreds of giggling travellers stopping by the town’s signs to take humorous pictures, Tisdale’s Economic Development Office have created an online survey asking residents if they believe it is ‘time for Tisdale to update our town brand’.
Officials noted that both honey production and the amount of rapeseed grown have decreased significantly in recent years, and that the town’s slogan was created more than 60 years ago.
In the online survey (you have to be a resident of Tisdale to vote, so don’t get any ideas) officials include a list of possible new slogans, including ‘Land of Canola and Honey’, ‘A Place to Bee’, and ‘A Place to Grow’ (which could be construed as rude).
Our suggestion?
‘You catch more flies with honey than you do with chopsticks – Jarod Kintz’
You’re welcome, Tisdale.
Is that a female Grimace?
The operative part of the question has nothing to do with its name.
And nobody noticed this when they proposed the slogan??
It was quite a while ago.
Do you know what a Grimace is?
If there are more than one, it’s going to be what they are.
If there was one Rhino, it would be Rhino ;-)
None the less, if you spray painted that woman purple, the Grimace would be dry humping her before you put the can down...
I guess I don’t eat enough fast food to make the connection.
No....I think it’s “Gerbil Capitol of the World.”
What a disgusting skank. Odd that she stands like FLOTUS.
Blue Ball, PA
Intercourse, PA
Kuntztown, PA
All within an hour’s drive!
Lakeland, FL was essentially started by a real-estate mogul name Julius T. Horney, and when the town was incorporating in the 1920s, there was a move to give it the name Horneytown. Luckily for future residents, Julius was a humble man who did not want the town named for him, so it took on the more prosaic name of Lakeland. There is, however, a Julius T Horney Dr. in the town (very near the Tigertown spring training camp of the Detroit Tigers), along with a Horney Park near the west side of the town’s main lake, Lake Hollingsworth, and a Lake Horney near the east side of the same lake.
AYDS commercials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfFs0o6pCxc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxJDobrrOYA
“...as the people of Twatt, in Scotland can attest...”
Twatt sounds like a great place to visit. But I wouldn’t want to live there permanently.
Canada Ping!
I remember driving through the town in the 70s and snickering at it then... however, word definitions do change over time particularly when they get hijacked by particularly groups. Who in their right mind would issue an invitation to a party that uses the word 'gay' as it would have been used in the first half of the last century?
Incidentally, what has brought attention to this issue for this small town is that there was a horrific murder suicide there this past week.... http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/rcmp-say-woman-three-children-and-suspect-dead-in-saskatchewan .
Guess you have not been to Intercourse Pennsylvania.......
I lived next to there in Bartow for a long time, and never knew that. Thanks!
Twatt sounds like a great place to visit. But I wouldn’t want to live there permanently.
I always enjoy myself when I’m in... Never mind
It's not the heat it's the humidity.
You’re right. Naomi is the Mom, who doesn’t make many public statements these days, she’s too busy singing. I’m speaking about the neurotic youngest daughter who became a successful actress 10 years ago. That would be Ashley. Ashley has a reputation of carelessly using the term “I felt emotionally raped” about minor situations.
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