Tuesday, February 21, 2012

OMG! to 'WTF'

A town in Colorado called Fruita is considering using "WTF" -Welcome to Fruita- as a tourism campaign. One of the many problems to this idea was that the local residents proved this slogan to be to edgy to some. The town of Fruita is a popular destination for mountain biking, rafters, and other DIY adventurers thought this would work because a local couple made a WTF sticker and was popular through out local businesses. Unfortunately the town didn't realize all the emails and phone calls that the couple received from overwhelmingly dismayed residents after their sticker was released. The Mayor of Fruita says that people became 'unglued' him or his grandson told them what WTF stood for. If this were to go through would people accepted the acronym or would they shun it and leave the town to rot? I think they should just bury the idea and forget about it and let others forget about it. With this generation of teenagers using acronyms for everything they would just get the wrong impression and avoid the town if they took it to offense. 
'Welcome to Fruita' sticker (© Fruita, Colorado website, http://bit.ly/Ad0KwU) http://now.msn.com/now/0221-fruita-colorado-slogan.aspx

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