From mit-eddie!sppip7.lkg.dec.com!jc Sat May 16 02:28:55 1992 Return-Path: Received: by minya.uucp (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.18.1 #18.16) id ; Sat, 16 May 92 02:28 EDT Received: from CRL.DEC.COM by trillian.mit.edu with SMTP (5.65/25-eef) id AA03407; Fri, 15 May 92 12:53:23 -0400 Received: by crl.dec.com; id AA04748; Fri, 15 May 92 12:52:44 -0400 Received: by sppip7.lkg.dec.com (5.57/ULTRIX-fma-071891); id AA27923; Fri, 15 May 92 12:02:39 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 May 92 12:02:39 -0400 From: mit-eddie!sppip7.lkg.dec.com!jc (John Chambers) Message-Id: <9205151602.AA27923@sppip7.lkg.dec.com> To: jchome@sppip7.lkg.dec.com Subject: rec.humor.funny #3569 - Losers in Arizona Tourism Slogan Contest In article , anasaz!morris@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (Bob Morris) writes: Path: nntpd.lkg.dec.com!nntpd2.cxo.dec.com!pa.dec.com!decwrl!uunet!looking!funny-request Message-ID: Date: Fri, 15 May 92 3:20:5 EDT Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: Losers in Arizona Tourism Slogan Contest From: anasaz!morris@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (Bob Morris) Keywords: topical, smirk Approved: funny@clarinet.com Lines: 33 >From the Arizona Republic, May 7 (lead story on front page): "Arizona is banking on a new slogan to lure millions of visitors and their dollars to the state. "It's 'Arizona--One Grand Adventure After Another.'" "The slogan, picked from more than 20,000 entries, in a contest sponsored by the Arizona Office of Tourism, was announced Wednesday." [it goes on, but here are some of the losers:] Arizona--Bring your camera and your Grandma Arizona--Come on vacation, Leave on probation Arizona--A Yucca Minute Arizona--You Never Have to Shovel Sunshine Arizona--Where you can Have a Dirt Lawn and it's OK Arizona--Come see it, Pilgrim Arizona has the hots for you Arizona--The Happy Jumping Cholla State Get your AZ over here Hug a zonie Arizona--The Zippy Zone Arizone--It will Thaw Your Chilis Arizona--Sunny with Scattered Flowers Arizona--Better than the State You're In Arizona--It's not Kansas and it Never was" The winner won a free houseboat vacation on Lake Powell, most of which is in Utah. -- Selected by Brad Templeton. MAIL your joke (jokes ONLY) to funny@clarinet.com. Please! No copyrighted stuff. Also no "mouse balls," dyslexic agnostics, Iraqi driver's ed, Administratium, strings in bar or bell-ringer jokes. -- To a man who feels, life is a tragedy. To a man who thinks, life is a comedy. [Who said that?]